The Editors suggest checking out the following links:
- Picture of open-source software protestor and Bill Gates in Beijing – A bemused (or nonplussed?) Bill, on stage, looks at an open-source software advocate’s ardent lifting of a slightly ratty-looking banner.
- PC World’s Techlog – Microsoft’s $3 Software Bundle – Microsoft’s bottom line takes a hit in its war against Linux
- Wired 15.03: Blade Runner – South African double amputee tries to make the Olympics team for Beijing with “hyper-engineered” prosthetics
- Chinese media reacts to Virginia Tech shootings
- The nature of China’s relations with the world – Singapore’s Foreign Minister: “But many of these methods [the Chinese] use arise out of fear, not out of a desire to dominate. If you analyze the old tributary system, those who sent tributes got more than they gave in return.”
- China Rises: Notes from the Middle Kingdom – A foreign journalist’s over-dramatic account of state control while visiting Tibet
- Global Voices Online » China: MeMedia Issue 4: Copyright Kills Creation, Life’s Precious, Ching Ming Festival – A bridge blog/translation of Isaac Mao’s Memedia project
- China Brief from the Jamestown Foundation – A look at the role of bloggers as “citizen journalists” in the Chinese media
- Asia Sentinel – Nailing China’s Nail House – A strong take on the “nail house” story, exploring the complexities of the case and its ramifications
- Beijing Tries To Be A Wireless City Before 2008 Olympics – Beijing adds citywide WiFi to its list of impossible 2008 deadlines
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