September 2011
7 posts
ChinaDailyUSA Retweet: Put in Context
Now, for those of you who actually clicked through and read the article, which probably most of you didn’t, I thought I would contextualize the 500 RMB (Yuan) or $78 fine that the 31 year old editor received. To find out more go to Twitter and click on the link (it’s the one about social media causing problems in China). (I am loathe to post the same link twice because it seems...
The Great Wall vs The Great Firewall
When the Han Chinese recount their history, they are never taken over. No, the Mongolians came through the Great Wall and overthrew the reigning dynasty, but they adopted the higher Han Chinese culture and became Chinese. This same phenomena happened later with the Manchu overthrow of the Ming dynasty. But with this one, if you look at the furniture and art, you see the difference in taste between...
The Great Firewall of China
I don’t think any of us are strangers to China’s censorship. However, on my study abroad this summer one of the guys decided that he needed to google Tian’anmen Square. It was the first thing he looked up on the internet. Well, unfortunatly for him the web page didn’t exist. But no worries, nothing bad happened.
Going to China I anticipated not being able to us facebook,...
Social Media
So, uhh, clearly I was super creative and brilliant with the title of this post…
But anyway, there’s a movie coming out called @urFRENZ. It’s about a girl who gets sucked into the internet and social media. Anyway, it’s something on-topic that I can post about, so here’s the link, if you care.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/urfrenz/
Signing off-
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Facebook Changes
lampert19:
It looks as if Facebook will be changing its interface even more: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/22/7898095-how-facebook-is-about-to-change-even-more?GT1=43001
I sarcastically like this. Thanks facebook.
Signing off-
Alice
Problems with Twitter
First things first: Let me be clear- this post is not a question. I’m not asking for a solution, unless of course, the answer comes directly from that Nebraska kid who created it. And, well I’d expect your answer to be 140 characters or less, and please do include a hashtag and also “tag” me in it.
1. 140 characters? Are you serious? I also don’t appreciate the...
Post #1
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3 testing, testing. Does this work? Are my classmates creeping on me yet?
Signing off-
Alice