Stories about Ideas from May, 2006
China: Universities fail review
The AngryChineseBlogger takes a very close look at a recently-released report which gives a very poor rating of the protection of intellectual property rights in four of China's top ten universities, adds an analysis of fiscal, socio-cultural and legal factors which might contribute to the problem, and ends with a...
China: Magazine startup tips
Joel Martinsen of the Chinese media research team at Danwei keeps the pioneering coverage of China's publishing industry with a look at several official and otherwise ways to start one's own publication in China in ‘Wait, what's the name of this magazine again?‘ and we see Jeremy Goldkorn in the...
China: Free press defended
EastSouthWestNorth blogger Roland Soong translates an essay written by former Peking university journalism professor Jiao Guobao in commemoration of last week's World Press Freedom Day. Find therein a defence of anti-Communist Party of China reporting and mention of two tools widely used to bypass The Great Firewall of China.
Argentina: Sketching Freud and Solá
It was Sigmund Freud's 150th birthday this past weekend and Roberto Bobrow commemorates the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis in Argentina, noting that a neighborhood of the capital city is even called “Villa Freud.” Using a “new set of digital oils,” Bobrow also sketched the well known Argentine conservative columnist, Morales...
Haiti: New Haiti-Based Haitian Blog
Parlons Peu uses the blog medium to publish (FR) his father Marcel Salnave's journalistic works from the 40s and 50s. Recent posts include a raving review of Haitian musical prodigy Ernst Lamy written in 1940 and reflections on the Haitian National Bank written in 1946.
Afghan Whispers: To Celebrate or not!
Afghan bloggers talk about anniversary of Kabul's fall in hands of Mujahedin. They disagree about whether or not to celebrate. Why should the Afghan people celebrate this day? Did they get freedom, justice or…. The blogger adds this event just brought more war for another ten years (Persian). He says,...
China: Strike-it-rich lit
Lalaoshi at Laowiseass blogs on yet another book which sells the secret of breaking into the Chinese market with his own take on the author's theory of that which motivates Chinese consumers: protection and projection.
South Korea: Free trade support?
Joshua at The Korean Liberator questions a recent poll which suggests that a silent majority of sixty percent of South Koreans support a free trade agreement with the United States, despite the frequent and vocal protests of opposition.
China: Technorati's struggles
Technorati has increased indexing of non-English blogs, writes Danwei‘s Joel Martinsen, going on to explain why the aggregator's indexing of many Chinese blogs will still show only—perhaps even less than—half the popularity picture.
China: Steps towards aggregation
The fault for the weak link between major blog aggregators and non-English blogs, says China Herald blogger Fons Tuinstra, lies not with the aggregators but with the ignorance of the local bloggers themselves. “It all boils down to pinging the Technorati servers,” writes the Shanghai-based China consultant. “When you cannot...
China: May Day malcontents
Lyn Jefferey at Virtual China gives some background on China's week-long May Day holiday and translations of comments from an online discussion on the state of laborers in the pseudo-socialist country, including the comments that are quickly being erased.
South Korea: Korean studies congress
A call for papers has been sounded, blogs Hunjangûi Karûch’im‘s Antti Leppänen, for the third world congress of Korean studies set for October this year. “There doesn't seem to be any DPRK involvement this time,” he writes, “which I must tell is fortunate, considering the experiences from the 2nd ‘world’...
We Media conference update
A quick post from London to let you know that one of the speakers here, Nitin Desai, the Special Assistant to the UN Secretary General, who chaired the UN’s Working Group on Internet Governance, will be taking part in a skype and IRC chat with the Global Voices community. We...
China: Churches compete for Christians
The EastSouthWestNorth blogger does a non-random sample analysis of several blogs’ Google PageRanks and comes up with a completely unreliable conclusion. Further down is the final translation of a very relevant series of reports on Christian-ish churches in rural China.
South Korea: Newspapers add English
The Oranckay blogger tells us why increased English-language news reporting in Korean newspapers might not be such a good thing.
China: Music tour tips
In ‘One Country, Two Rock Scenes‘, Holidarity‘s Friend Gram reveals a mainland China rock star trick of the trade.
China: Cantonese opera
Supernaut Frances D'Ath and her non-demonic friends gear up for Apocalypse Guangzhou later this month in ‘Canton Opera Madness.’
Hong Kong: Zheng He exhibition
sevenyearsinchina‘s Han Girl visits the Zheng He exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History and comes away flipping Eurocentrism on its head. “What can one expect? We're talking about people who still use the word ‘discover’ to describe the trip to America by Columbus,” she writes. “Columbus discovered a...
Hong Kong: A Communist pod-dream
It didn't take long for Dave and Stefan at Hong Kong's Blog the Talk to get around to podcasting and their most recent release “a meditation on pedestrian behavior, individualism and the appeal of Communism in this capitalist paradise,” doesn't disappoint.
China: Intellectual property protection
China Law Blog‘s Dan Harris gives some personal Intellectual Property protection tips in ‘China Customs—Your IP Friend.’
China: Freedom summit one-sided
AngryChineseBlogger's post on the Freedom in China summit held in Washington D.C. earlier this week reveals some interesting things. Who attended, who wasn't allowed—Gao Zhisheng (高智晟), for example, one of the most prominent activists in China today—and who wasn't even invited: “As has become traditional in the US,” the blogger...
