China’s 60th Anniversary Parade Twitter Coverage Goes Ballistic

Just finished watching CCTV.com’s coverage of China’s 60th Anniversary Parade in Beijing on Chang’An Jie in Beijing. I was tweeting along with a number of other people in China (including @imagethief @granitestudio @davesgonechina @goldkorn @beijingboyce @kaiserkuo @christinelu @chjis and a

CCTV.com to live stream PRC’s 60th anniversary parade

CCTV just announced that it will live broadcast Thursday’s parade in Beijing in six languages, as well as live stream all of the pop and circumstance starting at 8am Beijing time on CCTV.com. My experience with CCTV.com has generally been

Bringing out the Lead (Poisoning) – China needs strict rural zoning now

Yesterday in Longyan in Fujian Province, another rash of lead poisoning cases in children was reported. The 120 cases reported in Longyan come after nearly 2400 children in total were sickened in similar incidents in Hunan and Shaanxi within the

Why aren’t there more fires in China?

A Xinjiang restaurant blew up in Xinjiekou in Beijing yesterday. The official report is that a gas canister exploded, and even through this accident comes at an inauspicious time (the ongoing unrest in Xinjiang plus the PRC’s 60th anniversity celebration

QQ and the iPhone 3G & 3GS – the penguins are aligned

Today, a day after MMS was finally released for the iPhone in the US (I like the quote “now you can do what you did with your Razr in 2003!”), I was just using the Yahoo Instant Messenger iPhone app

Is Twitpic the first Twitter app to be GFW’ed? And should anyone care?

This is somewhat in response to Ben Parr’s Mashable article and the subsequent comment stream, and following up on a thought I had last night after hearing about Twitpic being GFW’ed. In case you haven’t heard, after yesterday’s explosion, Maggie