Outsourcing Journalism to China You thought that China was good in making only teddy bears and jeans? Think again.… March 26, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
Google Translation Tool Only Works Sometimes After my initial enthusiasm last week about Google's new translation tool, I decided to ask… March 21, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
Is Google Sending the Translators Home? In December I made fun of Altavista's automated online translation service Babelfish -- to the… March 15, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
HiPiHi: China’s Second Life Since last month, the story of Beijing's new online service HiPiHi has been hitting China-related… March 12, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
Unlinkable Media Lose Reach In the aftermath of the "victory" of Belgian print publications -- in which they were… February 16, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
Belgium: No Excitement Over Google News Ban A few days ago, Google lost its appeal in a Brussels court against an earlier… February 14, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
Google Founders Admit Mistake on Chinese Censorship The Guardian reports that Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page admitted yesterday at the… January 28, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
APAX Leaves Dutch Media Scene ...Yet another investor flees a foreign media market. (Alan Abbey wrote about one earlier today.)The… January 23, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
E-Mail Authentication Helps Spammers Ordinarily, I approve of everything that helps fight spam -- but some measures are bound… January 19, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
China: Very Few Making Money Online With 136 million users, China is the second largest Internet nation after the U.S. But… January 13, 2007 Fons Tuinstra
Has Google Built a Smarter Internet? Day two of the Asian Internet crisis. Here's a short update from Shanghai.Much of the… December 27, 2006 Fons Tuinstra
Earthquake Rattles Asia’s Connectivity Does your online venue have an Asian audience? Maybe not today -- at least, not… December 27, 2006 Fons Tuinstra
Who’s Measuring Chinese TV Audiences? I usually take a walk when propaganda from China's state news agency Xinhua passes my… December 12, 2006 Fons Tuinstra
Is Chinese Censorship Technology a “Frankenstein’s Monster?” It seems impossible to discuss the Internet in China without also mentioning online censorship. A… December 12, 2006 Fons Tuinstra
Record Number of Miners Die: So What? One of the topics I cover in China are labor issues. Mining accidents occur at… December 7, 2006 Fons Tuinstra