Community Blogs: Little Red Blog

Passport says she's 16, Google cache of deleted site says 14

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:08:45 +0800

The powers that be in China are finding out the hard way that it's impossible to delete something from the Internet. You may as well try to take pee out ...

Counting medals: Is this going to be an issue? It shouldn't

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:08:27 +0800

Wikipedia's page for Athens 2004's official medal count states that:

The ranking sorts by the number of gold medals earned by a country (in this context a country is ...

Clobber Chinese censorship with Freedom Sticks

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:08:46 +0800

In an effort to help journalists in Beijing surf the Web anonymously and unhindered by China's censorship, the Chaos Computer Club out of Germany has been distributing these little USB ...

Blue Screen of Death during Beijing Opening Ceremonies

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:08:09 +0800

Ok, I think a lot of people missed this one. But apparently somebody was pretty quick with a camera, and managed to snap off a few pics of this massive blue ...

Protesting 2.0

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:08:02 +0800

Well, about half a year ago, I was mulling over what kind of protests would come about during the Olympics, considering the new Internet technologies that are now available, live ...

Error: Olympics not available in China

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:08:50 +0800

This year marks the first time videos of the Olympics will be easily accessible on the Internet (well, relatively easy). NBCOlympics.com has events online streaming live with a little help from ...

World of Warcraft welcomes you to Beijing

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:08:57 +0800

Cheers to ChinaSmack, a very cool new blog that I just stumbled on, for this World of Warcraft rendition of the Olympic tune Beijing Welcomes You. It's somewhat less ...

Link: Why podcasting never killed the radio star in China

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:08:29 +0800

Steven Lin's guest post over on�Ogilvy's Digital Watch addresses a question that many in the tech world may have never thought to ask. I know I didn't. Why exactly hasn't ...

Olympic Internet: Paying more for less

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:07:11 +0800

Slashdot reports that Olympic Media Village is going to make journalists pay an amazingly high price in exchange for connecting to the Internet:

BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the ...

Google does its part for Olympic visitors

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:07:17 +0800

Navigating China if you don't have the language down pat can be an Olympic size pain in the BOCOGs. Anyone hoping to use Google Maps is usually disappointed when searching for ...