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coComment Firefox Extension

Tue, 09 May 2006 02:36:59 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: With services of coComment you can easily manage your comment which you submitted on many platform such as Blogger,Flickr,Digg,wordpress,etc.

And maybe Clipmarks in future.

Clip Source: www.cocomment.com

tools » Firefox Extension

Instead of clicking on the bookmarklet every time you comment somewhere, simply install this extension to your Firefox browser.

Features

» automatically enables coComment on supported blogs (bookmarklet no longer needed)
» notifies you if you have new comments in 'Your conversations'

Extension status

Default. Simply click on the icon to go to 'Your conversations' page
Extension disabled or not logged in at coComment.com

Page detection

   Extension detected a supported blog page
   Extension detected a partial supported blog page
      (not all parameters are automatically extracted)
No icon, if page is unknown to coComment.

Alerting

New comments related to you are available

Context menu

Right-click on the icon to open the context menu:

Check for new coComments now
contacts coComment.com for new comments related to you
Mark all coComments as read
clears the icon
Disable coComment on current page
temporary disables coComment on the current page (until web page is reloaded)
Disable/Enable entire extension
disables/enables the entired extension for all web sites
Preferences
specify how often the extension should contact coComment.com to check for new comments.

Installation

Installation is quick and easy.

Tags: cocomment, firefox extension, management

China to recruit villagers to protect Great Wall from vandals

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:32:56 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: China to recruit villagers to protect Great Wall from vandals

Clip Source: english.sina.com

China to recruit villagers to protect Great Wall from vandals

The names of two tourists are written on the Great Wall in Badaling, Beijing in this Feb. 14, 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

BEIJING, Feb 16 (AP) -- China plans to recruit villagers who live near the Great Wall to guard against vandalism that has damaged sections of the country's most famous landmark, a news report said Thursday.

Patrols will focus on a 630-kilometer (390-mile) stretch of wall north of the Chinese capital, the official China Daily newspaper said.

Near Badaling, north of Beijing, almost every brick on a popular section of the centuries-old wall has been carved with people's names and other graffiti, the report said.

"Saturated tourism is often blamed for damage to the Oriental epitome of ancient Chinese civilization," the newspaper said.

The earliest sections of the wall were built more than 20 centuries ago to guard against Mongols and other invaders.

The government also is considering a buffer zone to keep the public away from some sections, the China Daily said, citing Yu Ping, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage.

Tags: great wall, protect, china

China blocks Technorati

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:11:10 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: What will be blocked next?
Blogspot,pediaWiki,Furl,what'll be the next?

Clip Source: www.tomrafteryit.net

China blocks Technorati

Published April 26th, 2006 in Search Engines Tags: censorship, china, chinese internet, great firewall, Search Engines, technorati.

I received an email this morning from Ken Carroll of ChinesePod telling me that China has blocked Technorati at the great firewall - it would appear that Technorati will no longer be available to anyone to use in China.

Co-incidentally, when I interviewed Technorati’s CEO David Sifry on the PodLeaders show a couple of weeks back, Ken submitted the following question for David -

Do you have a China strategy? What do you foresee there in terms of blogging and blog search?

Does this mean Technorati isn’t censoring search results into China like Google, MSN, Yahoo are? And if this is the case, will Technorati now have to start doing the Chinese government’s censorship job for them if they wish to be seen in China once more?

I have posted about this topic in the past and, in my naive opinion, unless all the search engines come together to formulate a common China strategy, China will continue to pick them off one by one.

UPDATE:
I see the Mad About Shanghai blog is also reporting that Technorati is being blocked in China.

Technorati Tags: censorship, china, chinese internet, great firewall, Search Engines, technorati

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Tags: technorati, censorship, great firewall of china

Live.com has be blocked in China

Fri, 05 May 2006 02:16:44 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: If they want to blcok everything,why dont they cut off the internet connection

Clip Source: forums.lifevine.org

After Technorati has been blocked here.Live.com may be blocked else in China.

My friends and I cant access live.com since a week ago.And people also cant use any windows live! services,such as live mail,they will get a 404 error when log in their live passport.

Tags: great firewall of china, microsoft, live

Who's the web killer?

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:37:24 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: I'm still not sure about that if it really be blocked at all.
What I'm sure is that some of my friends and I cant access the site.

And I suggest in the next version of Windows, Vista, Microsoft should put an auto startup proxy service like Tor in, because I’m afraid one day when they block everything, we Chinese have to surfing through proxy.

Clip Source: en.lifevine.org

Who’s the web2.0 killer?

0 Comments Published August 1st, 2006 in China

Who’s the web2.0 killer? Nobody but Chinese government.

After blocking WikipediA, Blogspot, Technorati, etc, Feedburner, another wonderful web service may be blocked in some areas of China.

This morning when I got up and want to burn my feed of my English Blog through Feedburner, I suddenly found that I cant access the site. I tried TOR (an anonymous internet communication system) later and everything is fine. Then I asked some of my friends in China. Some of them are in the same trouble, other lucky guys have no such problem (obviously I’m not one in those lucky). So I cant say that our Great FireWall has already blocked Feedburner, but I’m sure that some ISP did.

Technorati Tags: censorship, Feedburner, the Great FireWall

Tags: feedburner, censorship, great firewall of china

Dog looks like the owner?

Sun, 07 May 2006 02:35:16 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Mr stuff found a PS work here:
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/B12DE459-5FD0-4093-A7C4-C3466F772592/

and I found these photos above.Now I can say,owners pets looks like the owner,or we can say the owner likes like his pet.That's true,so choose a pretty dog so that you may look more cool

Clip Source: life.yinsha.com

　　
　　
　　
　　
　　
　　
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Clip Source: news.sohu.com

Tags: dogs, pets, owner

Elves in Chinese folklore

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:06:13 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: They're top 10 widely spreadly elves in Chinese folklore,sorry it's too hard to translate their names to English,but the Chinese names are bellow:

狐仙(Fox spirits),龙女,夜叉(Yaksha),判官,牛头(Ox heads),马面(horse faces ),二郎(Erlang Shen ),七郎,刑天(Xing Tian),辟邪

I hope I can have time and ability to do some short description to each of them.There's already have a detailed list about Chinese mythology on Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mythology), most of them have well described,but I think have some pictures will make more sense.

Clip Source: cache.tianya.cn

Tags: elf, folklore, artwork, china

Chinese professor strips in art class

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:47:12 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- A Chinese culture ministry official has denounced a university professor who stripped naked in front of students and teachers during an art class, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Mo Xiaoxin, a 56-year-old assistant professor at a university in Changzhou, in eastern Jiangsu province, shocked students by stripping during a lecture on "body art" to emphasize the "power" of the body and to "challenge taboos," the Beijing News said.

"There are no taboos in the field of research, but to do this directly in the course of teaching is obviously not appropriate," the paper quoted Tian Junting, a culture ministry official, as saying.

The lecture was part of a course within a newly established "human body art and culture" research institute -- China's first -- at Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology, the paper said.

Mo arranged for four other models, including a man and woman in their 70s or 80s, and a younger couple, to strip naked in front of the class while he lectured, the paper said.

During the nearly hour-long class, Mo also invited students to take their clothes off.

"Professor Mo appeared emotionally excited at the time," the paper quoted a student as saying. "As he was talking, he undid his belt and took off his pants, and stood naked in the middle of the lecture podium."

The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel "uneasy," the paper said. "Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground".

Tian, the culture ministry official, said the course was still in a "research phase" and it wasn't yet known whether it had produced "positive or negative effects."

Tags: china, professor, strip

ClipWeek!

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:23:27 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Just got this, the idea is great.

By the way, if you can enter my mailbox through the source link, let me know.

Clip Source: mail.google.com

Hi zephyrgong,

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Slaves in China

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:50:24 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Happenning in the 21st century

Clip Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

Chinese police rescue brick-kiln ‘slaves'

The Chinese media have estimated that 1,000 children – some as young as eight years old – were drugged or kidnapped near train And bus stations and then sold to factory owners for as little as 500 yuan (about $70).

The children were forced to work as many as 14 hours a day in cruel conditions with little food. Some were beaten by their bosses. Others were burned by hot bricks as they worked. Some of the children have spent up to seven years in slavery.

Another worker, also mentally handicapped, was beaten to death with a hammer last year. The workers were forced to sleep on the ground and were not permitted to wash or change their clothes. Their bodies were covered with bruises and burns from the hot bricks.

The factory was owned by the son of the local Communist Party boss. He employed five guards and six dogs to prevent the workers from fleeing.

Tags: brick, factory, slaves, children, china

Firefox Girl

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:55:38 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: That's why I use Firefox

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

Tags: firefox, girl

"Not Buy House" Movement been banned

Wed, 31 May 2006 05:28:50 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: People in big cities works a whole life,just for their own apartments.Furthermore, in China,when we say "buy a house",what we mean is buy the ownership for 70 years,after that the house has to give back to government.That's the policy.

Clip Source: www.williamlong.info

Shenzhen citizen Zou Tao started the "Not Buy House" movement, which has reportedly been banned. According to some BBS posts, Zou Tao was taken away by the public security bureau before he boarded a plane at Shenzhen Airport on May 11. Zou Tao's blog at Tianya has been shut down. The whereabouts of Zou Tao is unknown.

I have previously predicted such an outcome. It is a fool's dream to think that an individual's efforts can affect the huge interests with the real estate moguls and the government. Housing prices in Shenzhen and Beijing are extremely high, and there are signs that certain groups of buyers are speculating to take profit while the real estate developers are jacking up the prices. But there is nothing that we can do. Individually, we can refuse to buy. We can write essays to condemn this kind of behavior. But if we organize several tens of citizens to take certain actions against certain things, it would be anathema to the government. No matter how pure and good your motives are, you will be banned.

The "Not Buy House" movement originally appears to be directed against the bad real estate groups. In practice, it has touched upon the related interests of the government. Through auctioning off the land, the government obtains revenues. Obviously, the higher the price, the better off the government will be. If the developers have higher costs, they will seek higher returns for which the government will receive high tax revenues. Under this win-win situation for the government and developers, it was a fool's dream for Zou Tao to hope that housing prices will come down.

Zou Tao appears to have left Shenzhen now. If he does not want to leave, his life may be threatened. Shenzhen changed him, or else he should not have been living in Shenzhen, a city between heaven and hell ...

Tags: shenzhen, china, house, housing prices

Wash up, Duck!

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:33:38 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: To me, this is a cute story. 10,000 yellow plastic ducks drifting 14 years

Maybe someone here can catch one next year

Clip Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk

Amazing 22,000-mile, 14-year trip of 10,000 bath toys after they fell into ocean.. now they're on their way here

AN "armada" of 10,000 yellow plastic ducks is about to land in Britain after an incredible 14-year journey across the oceans.

The bathtime toys fell off a container ship in the Pacific in 1992 and, after drifting thousands of miles, are due to start washing up on our shores soon.

To add to the excitement, the ducks have a worldwide cult following and can change hands for as much as £1,000 a time.

Scientists monitoring ocean debris say the duck armada has hit the Gulf Stream, which circulates warm water from the Caribbean to Britain, and is about to start drifting across the Atlantic.

The ducks are expected to start bobbing up on the British coast some time in the next year.

The ducks started their incredible journey from a factory in China, before they were loaded on to a ship heading out across the Pacific.

In a freak storm in the middle of the huge ocean near the International Dateline, a giant container carrying 29,000 bath toys was washed overboard and broken open 4,000 miles into its journey to Tacoma, Washington state.

During their first three years at sea the toys completed one 6,800-mile orbit of the Pacific Gyre, a current which circulates around the edge of the ocean - passing through the waters of Indonesia, Australasia, South America and Hawaii - at the rate of seven miles a day.

Tags: duck, drifting

Property Rights: China's most incredible holdout

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:12:49 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong

Clip Source: www.danwei.org

Dingzihu (钉子户) is a Chinese word that means a household or person who refuses to vacate their home to make way for real estate development. Virtual China translates the word as 'nail house' because "they stick out like nails in an otherwise modernized environment".

A photograph of the house in question has been circulating on the Chinese Internet during the last few days. It's posted on the popular Tianya forum: The coolest nail house in history.

The Tianya post has hundreds of comments representing many different points of view about the Property Law, the evils of state- and privately-owned real estate development, and the the rights of tenants.

The promising new blog Peering into the Interior has a translation of an interview with the owner of the nail house, Ms Wu Ping: Interview with China's Most Incredible Holdout

Also on Peering into the Interior: Media coverage emboldens nailhouse owners.

Tags: china, controversial, property law

30 tons of molten steel flood room, killing 32 in China

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:56:18 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong

Clip Source: english.sina.com

SHANGHAI, Apr. 18 -- Thirty tons of molten steel spilled from a falling ladle, killing 32 workers and injuring two in a Liaoning steelmaking plant this morning, Xinhua news agency reported.

The 32 victims were working in a room away from where the ladle was being operated when the accident happened at 7:45am in the plant owned by Qinghe Special Steel Co Ltd in Tieling City in Northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The ladle suddenly dropped when being moved to a new location, and 30 tons of molten steel spilled out and poured into the room five meters away, killing all the people inside.

Two operators were slightly injured and escaped from the scene by themselves, the report said.

Those responsible for the incident were under supervision, the report said.

Vice provincial governor Li Jia and vice provincial Party secretary Luo Lin reachedhave gone to the scene to guide the rescue work.

But the rescuer work was hindered by the heat from the molten steel, the report said.

Tags: 32 victims, china