This link takes you to a post a week old and has already been referenced by ESWN. But I just think this piece by Mutant Palm about the British media’s coverage of “China’s cyber army” is exactly what blogging is all about and I would happily band it about the next time someone complains that bloggers are a threat to the art of journalism. And a follow up to that post is here.
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DaveESL | 14-Sep-07 at 7:46 pm | Permalink
Blogspot is blocked here in Hunan. Can you access it from Beijing?
davesgonechina | 14-Sep-07 at 10:33 pm | Permalink
Hey, thanks very much Chris! Chapter Two is out now too, though I like the ones you link here best myself. Love the post above on the drinking water and SCMP, by the way. Great catch.
Chris O'Brien | 16-Sep-07 at 3:59 pm | Permalink
Dave 1: I’ve lost track of whether blogspot is blocked, in the process of being blocked, unblocked, blocked again etc in China so my automatic reaction is to use a proxy. But I think the current status is: more blocked than a consumer of a whole pack of Immodium.
Dave 2: Cheers mate. I can appreciate how much time has gone into what is now a trilogy. Great stuff.
China’s not a threat « 卦Trigram | 23-Sep-07 at 10:47 pm | Permalink
[...] about security, firewalls, or keeping anti-malware systems up to date. The Beijing Newspeak blog put me on to a couple of well-thought pieces by Mutant Palm (hitherto unknown to me, but now on the RSS [...]