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A city wall tower and very clearly, the moat, Beijing, 1840-1860: just one of the many photos from around the Pacific, circa 1840-1940, now to be found online at the National Gallery of Australia’s Picture Paradise exhibition.  Well worth browsing through this eclectic collection of shots of everything from Australian aborigines to Javanese dancers, a [...]

“With music by Damon Albarn, and imagery by Jamie Hewlett — the duo that brought us the Gorillaz — I am loving BBC Sport’s marketing campaign for the Chinese Olympics.”
Via Drawn.

Kind of gorgeous, isn’t it?
(Regin@s photostream on Flickr, via beijingolympics FriendFeed stream)

You’ve all seen the Beijing National Stadium by now…

But have you seen this farmer creation?

(Actually, Aw Guo guesses that a farmer made it. We don’t know for sure.)
Via IfGoGo (originally from Xiaonei).

Global Lives wants to film 24 hours in the life of a rural person somewhere in China.  Want to join them?
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If you join new social networking/web 2.0 things as research for work, you tend to find the same friends and acquaintances there.  For me that group includes Howard Rheingold, my IFTF colleague Sean Ness, Jerry Michalski, and a group of Chinese/China-focused digerati who are a bridge across the Chinese- and English-language internet.  Some of these [...]

Two calls to sign this petition have been floating around my inbox recently:

Being from Hong Kong, I quickly submitted my name to support this cause. Thoughts stirred in my head: What was the UN doing? Is this a signal for Taiwan? Does this mean Hong Kong will switch to simplified Chinese soon?
Upon further research however, [...]

I’m interested in virtuality, experience, and culture; Zafka Zhang is a metaverse researcher, blogger, and evangelist, directs research at China’s virtual world HiPiHi, and according to his Twitterstream, recently started his own youth insights and marketing company, China Youthology???; Li Feng is an Instructional Technology Specialist at University of Massachusetts Lowell and Second Lifer.  Along [...]

I’m doing some interviews with people who are playing with different reality media, and Justin.TV is a great example. The site recently got its one millionth user.  Most are like me, I’m guessing, and just sign up so they can navigate the site better.  But some are doing what Justin.TV is set up to do: [...]

We reported over a year ago on the release of the first mini-PC based on a China-developed processor. But according to Fool’s Mountain, it seems like that it either didn’t really ship or perhaps it didn’t register on his radar. So, there is a supposed new release that is the “second” first-ever commercial product based [...]