I Love Beijing’s Sensitive Words!
Right in the middle of my visit last summer, Facebook disappeared. It was added to the list of sites blocked by the Chinese firewall. At the time I was in China, hanging out with my friends, so we...
View ArticleChina’s Facebook disconnect–The great dark space
A friend of mine just posted a link on Facebook to a very interesting image that is also beautiful to look at. It is a visualization of Facebook friend data–ten million Facebook friend pairs, to be...
View ArticleTom Skype’s Sensitive Words: A Trove of Keywords for Contemporary China
In China, pretty much everyone knows that the Internet is heavily policed. The people know. The government knows the people know. The people know the government knows the people know. In fact, the...
View ArticleThe Facebook Database Must Be Fed
Most people around at the dawn of the public Internet might remember the brief period when important webpage addresses circulated by word of mouth, in emails among friends, and were even published in...
View ArticleMuseum Fatigue Reads, July 12, 2014
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