Archive for the ‘China’ Category
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
This is a great idea, beautifully implemented:
ChinesePod
I like the fact that they've broken down the podcasts into newbie, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. I especially like their business model: Distribute the podcasts for free, and charge for the additional learning materials.
They have chosen the blog format to present the material, and ...
Posted in Blogging, China, Education, Language, Taiwan | Comments Off
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
China's propaganda machine is amazing. Just now I brought down a search for 730 articles from Google News on how China's leadership has become absolutely hysterical over Taiwan's dissolution of the useless and non-operational unification council. Most of the articles really do an amazing job of spewing out the Chinese ...
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Google China's Image Search for "Tiananmen"
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
What the rest of the world sees:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
Hmmmm....
Update: Apparently this is currently pretty easy to defeat. As of this writing they've already fixed the "Tiananmen" spelling, but a few random mixed capitalization tests proved that they still have a lot more variations to cover. And misspellings ...
Posted in China, Politics | 3 Comments »
