Aug

29

FeedBurner Blocked By China

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FeedBurner, the most popular and powerful worldwide RSS service provider, is blocked by Chinese authorities for the censorship tonight.

Now Chinese user unable to visit feeds.feedburner.com, when I try to ping feedburner from China, it will return “Request timed out”.

When I issued traceroute requests to feedburner in China, I found the IP packets  are blocked by [...]

Aug

24

Wordpress Plugin: Chinese PinYin Slug

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The Chinese PinYin Slug Wordpress plugin convert Chinese UTF-8 character into English PinYin character from a post slugs to improve  search engine optimization.
For example, when you publish a post with a title like this:
“中文拼音”
Wordpress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug:
/%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87%e6%8b%bc%e9%9f%b3
PinYin Slug plugin convert Chinese character into PinYin character. With [...]

Aug

21

Google Launches Chinese Blog Search

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Today, Google released a Chinese version of Google Blog Search, the URL is blogsearch.google.cn . The IP address of “Chinese Blog Search” is in Bei Jing. Now Chinese users can use Google blog search services in simplified Chinese language.
According to Google Chinese Blog, the Chinese version of Google Blog Search can track most of Chinese [...]

Aug

20

Google Answers Censorship In China

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Today, Google and Tianya (a famous Chinese community website) launched a free Q&A service - “Tianya Answers“. Some believe this is a strong competitors of “Baidu Zhidao” (the biggest Q&A site in China). In the bottom of “Tianya Answers” we can get “Google technology provide”.
Social search has been Google’s weaknesses, Google Answers is also defeat [...]

Aug

14

Survival For Standalone Blogs

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This is my responded to Zousuper’s discussion on standalone blog’s  survival(Thanks for danwei’s translation). Later Zousuper’s blog is blocked by Chinese government, but Zousuper is not render submissive, he set up a new host and blogging again. Here is the post:
The necessary conditions for setting up a blog on a separate domain in China - [...]

Aug

11

The Secret Of Internet Censorship In China

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As we know, whether blog or forum is censored in China, people can not say anything in China. What can be said, and what can not be said is a question for all of us, today, I will introduce some of the legal basis in China: “Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection and Management [...]

Aug

8

About This Blog

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This is my first blog in English, which is set up using WordPress, in this blog, I’ll translate some of my Chinese blog into English, also, I’ll report the information about Chinese blogosphere, Chinese GreatFireWall, China society and people. Help you meet a real China.

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