The World Economic Forum has started here in Dalian, and there are a number of bloggers covering the event. Kaiser Kuo, Thomas Crampton, Rebecca Mackinnon… Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing is here, but I’ve yet to see him actually blog anything about it (aside from a video interview).
But in any case, I did write a CNet post on the nagging question that’s on everybody’s mind but, as Rebecca says, nobody seems willing to discuss:
What’s so ironic?
Well, this whole Davos/WEF conference is held in a spirit of free information exchange in the interests of development. China, aside from being the host of this years forum, is in the past few days simultaneously launching an all out censorship attack, restricting free online information exchange on the Chinese internet.
Does that strike anyone else as strange? Jimmy Wales, are you out there?
Kinda like attending a Christmas party hosted by the Grinch, is it not?
Is no one else writing about this?
Or is everybody liking the eggnog too much?
A quick update on some of my tech-related jottings over on CNET Asia.
Here are a few more of my recent posts over on CNET Asia. The one that I’m sure will be of interest to most (assuming that this is not a technical mishap) is the sudden inaccessibility of Yahoo from within China:
Another one bites the dust: Has Yahoo been Blocked in China?
There’s an unusual twist in this story though. Drop on over to the Little Red Blog to read all about that. Lets hope everything is back to normal in the morning.
Update:
It seems Yahoo was indeed fine shortly after, and things appear to be back to normal now. It seems that this may have been even been a problem with Yahoo instead of the Chinese net nanny, as Vietnam experienced Yahoo problems too.
Other recent CNET posts:
Here are my latest ramblings over on CNET Asia, for anyone who’d like to drop over and check ‘em out:
I don’t think I mentioned it before on here, but I’ve recently started writing for CNET Asia’s China Tech Blog. I’m taking over for Will/Imagethief, who set the bar pretty high in the last year, which is something I’ll never forgive him for.
Tough act to follow for sure.
In any case, I’ve just dished out my first two posts and I invite you to drop over to CNET and check ‘em out:
If you want to stay up to date on my posts over on CNET, there is an RSS feed for those of you that use news readers.
For those of you who are keeping track (that means you, mom!), here is a list of where you’ll find my random web-scribblings on the net:
Ryan, you’re setting a bad example!
