Under the Shadow of Great Firewall

On Feb.5,2010,Global Times,one of Chinese official English Media ,suprised reporting 50 cent party online commentators

By Zhang Lei

They hide behind changing identities and false IDs. They take orders from supervisors in cyber-space. In the US, they might be called “spin doctors,” trying to mold public opinion in favor of one political party or the other.

In China, they are working for both the commercial firms and government entities.

Gansu government recently announced that it was recruiting a team of 650 Internet “commentators” to “guide” public opinion through posts and replies to comments by Web users on Internet forums.

The recruits were soon being ridiculed by other netizens as the “5 mao army,” or “5 mao dang,” referring to those who are paid 50 Chinese cents to post comments favorable to the government.

Some critics say the term “5 mao army” is a product of prejudice under western influence. Zhang Shengjun, a professor of international politics at Beijing Normal University, recently wrote in the Chinese edition of the Global Times that the foreign media are crucial in spreading the term.

“Now it has become a baton waved towards all Chinese patriots…Is there nothing worth admiring in China? Should Chinese government always be the target of criticism?” Zhang said. <CONTINUE READING>

Original Post: http://special.globaltimes.cn/2010-02/503820.html

We,Chinese twitter users invent a hush tag #cn4iran to show our support to iran people. Just like you, we have the dictators too and we do hate them. We wish iran people will finally step down the dictator and get democracy back.

We also made a website  http://www.cn4iran.org/ to collect all tweets with tag #cn4iran.

I have lots of wave nominations and I would like to share them by free.

Anyone want to try google wave? If you have interest, please leave your email address in the comment. I will send the wave nomination to you.

Chinese twitter users build a forum called TUITUI The web adress http://bbs.tuitui.info . If you want to know more about Chinese twitters. Please go to the forum to register an acoount.

I saw one tweet to introduce an very good browser which can bypass the filter of GFW . I download it and try it. Yes, it is very cool. Now I can get on Youtube and Facebook. If you lived in a country like China, you might try it too. The software is totally free, You can download here http://is.gd/5aEmI

Oct.25  is the  20 Year Anniversary Fall of the Berlin Wall.   Berlintwitterwall.Com  is a virtual berlin wall, everyone can easily leave the message on the site by tweet any meassages with the hashtag  #fotw.

Soon some Chinese netizens get the news and spread it on twitter, they linked the fall of berlin wall with GFW(Great Fire Wall) which used to strictly filter&censorship internet by China government. They tweeted a lot of messages about their hopes of fall of GFW with the hashtag #fotw, now  Berlintwitterwall.Com is overwhelmed by Chinese tweets.

P.S:In the past 3 weeks, GFW banned more webistes to make them not accessible in China, including a lot of third party websites to be used to get on twitter. GFW triggered angry reactions of Chinese netizens. After human flesh search, Fangbinxing(方滨兴) was claimed as the father of GFW.  Fangbinxing was thought as NO.1 enemy of Chinese netizens and the most wanted people in the eyes of Chinese netizens. GFW has an very long list of banned sites, including Twitter,Youtube,facebook,Google Sites, Picasa,etc.

Google voice is only available in United States. But it doen’s mean you can not register one if you are not in U.S.  In my previous post Register Google Voice outside United States , you can know how to register it by Gtalk and VirtualPhoneOnline.

Now I found the better way to us Gizmo which can replace Gtalk and  VirtualPhoneOnline. It is very easy. You just need to go to the website of Gizmo and register one free account. Then you can use Gizmo No. to activate the google voice accout.

By using Gizmo, you can dial the extension no when you make a call. If you use Gtalk, it is no way to dial the extension No.

Months after the breakthrough of H1N1 swine flu in Mexico, now the flu spread to the world. India, a poor developing populated country, now begin to suffer H1N1 virus.

Follow the google map below to know the updated situation of H1N1 swine flu in India.

Swine Flu Hits Bollywood
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125015324248428607.html

As swine flu cases in India multiply, the government is warning people against visiting public spaces like movie theatres. Whether the year’s most awaited film, slotted for the year’s most coveted weekend will suffer a setback or not, is a consideration that Bollywood can’t brush off.

First Google map, then Google Earth, Now Google Map Street View. Great Google provide us so many free service. By using google steet view, we even can have a virtual vacation around the world. I digged many famous places in US,England,France,Italy,etc. It is really amazing.

So far, google street view is available in the following countries: Australia,New Zealand, Spain, France, Italy, Swizerland, Ireland, Netherlands, United States, Japan.

To know about steet view, please go http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html
Also you can follow @googlemaps @googlemapsjapan on twitter

Colosseum,Rome,Italy

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The morning of Aug.6, twitter, facebook and youtube get DDOS attacked. Twitter down seveal hours and facebook, youtube degraded their service . I checked my adsense earning and found the earning is much less than an avaergae day. Personally I thought it might caused by the three BIG WEBISTES get attacked, so the user can not sign in them even by using  a proxy. Anyway this is only my personal guess.

Aug.9, I read one post at forum of Proxy.Org and found some proxy webmasters have same feeling.

seems light…effect of twitter/facebook problems? Or just me?

Same here along much less $$$