Quality of Life: Hong Kong vs Shenzhen
From mid 2008 to the end of 2010 I lived in Shenzhen before moving…
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1 in a Billion: China’s Human Flesh Search
A friend of mine, Cai Qing, was recently in Chaoyang Park (Beijing) when she…
How The Great Firewall of China Works
The “Great Firewall of China” (GFW), officially known as the Golden Shield Project (金盾工程),…
Inside P1.cn – China’s Exclusive SNS
For almost as long as records have existed being a member of an exclusive…
Can Success Be Designed?
It struck me the other day that most of the great internet companies and…
10 Things You Couldn’t Do 25 Years Ago
Photo by gothopotam A couple of weeks ago I turned 25 which was a…
Storing Sensitive Data In The Cloud
Being an expat with multiple bank accounts in different countries, important documents such as…
Ode To The Great Firewall
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 updated for 21st Century China (and my current mood): Photo by…
Collective Conciousness
There can be no doubt that we are now at a point of being…
Tufte on iPhone Resolution
Edward Tufte, undisputed master of information visualisation (described by The New York Times as…
Downgraded
Last week was pretty busy with work and it looks set to be fairly…
Internet Addiction
Somehow today’s Dilbert seems worryingly close to the truth… how did anyone survive before…