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Chenese blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng. Don't try typing his name into Weibo. Pic: AP.

Social media: China censors, netizens play blind man’s buff

By AP News Tue, May 01, 2012 6:10PM UTC View Comments

BEIJING (AP) – A well-known blind activist’s escape from house arrest in China has set off a cat-and-mouse conflict on the Internet between censors and netizens. As word of Chen Guangcheng’s flight surfaced and spread last Friday, admirers rushed to popular Chinese social media to cheer him on – and the censors swung into action...

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Fun with Chinese: Words you can’t use on weibo

By Asia Sentinel Fri, Mar 16, 2012 10:51AM UTC View Comments

A US student collects the words that you can’t use on China’s Twitter, reports Asia Sentinel If you’re chatting in Chinese on weibo, the enormously popular network of microblogs that make up China’s version to Twitter, and you mention, for instance, an obituary (fùgào) of a friend or public figure, you are going to find...

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China Internet video giants merge

By Asian Correspondent Tue, Mar 13, 2012 12:05PM UTC View Comments

Two of the leading online video companies in China are coming together in a stock-for-stock transaction that will capture over a third of China’s burgeoning online video advertising market. Youku (“excellent and cool” in Mandarin), the number one company in terms of market share (21.8%) is buying out its bitter rival Tudou (“potato” — a...

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Infographic: China’s microblogging giants sized up

By Jon Russell Mon, Aug 08, 2011 1:00PM UTC View Comments

Chinese microblogging is a topic rarely off the radar in Asia, and recently its role in overcoming censorship and information bureaus in reporting the Wenzhoubar train crash garnered considerable interest. With that in mind, the infographic below (via TechCrunch), from competitive intelligence agency Digimind, comparing the country’s leading Weibo (microblogging) providers Sina and Tecent will be...

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The rise of social media in China

By Jon Russell Mon, Aug 01, 2011 11:30AM UTC View Comments

China has long fought to manage the amount of communication published online. The recent Wenzhoubar train crash, which saw 39 people lose their lives, is being been cited as a landmark in the changing face of the Chinese web which is seeing government officials battling to control the message amongst social media platforms – with the...

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