links for 2007-03-29

• China Media Project: Chinese documentary film festival "postponed" until further notice
  "China's leading venue for the screening of independent documentary films has been "postponed" under an order from authorities in Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan province."
  (tags: china film censorship)
• China Media Project: China Youth Daily: China needs non-state journalism "communities" to ensure a professional press
  "One of the lynchpin questions in the debate over ethical journalism in China is whether the professional environment for journalism can be improved without a radical rethink of the media's role in Chinese society (which is also a fundamental question abo
  (tags: china journalism press freespeech ethics)
• EastSouthWestNorth: "China Blog" Commentators Influenced American Reporters
  Roland translates a Chinese article about how commentors influenced the journalists writing on TIME's China blog. "(yWeekend) "China Blog" Commentators Influenced American Reporters. By Lu Yuan"
  (tags: journalism blogs blogging web2.0 china chineseinternetresearch)
• EastSouthWestNorth: The Killing Field
  Translated excerpt from the book A Narrow Escape from Death: My Journey as a 'Rightist' by Dai Huang.
  (tags: china history anti-rightist memoir politics)
• Asia Sentinel - Hong Kong’s Electoral Farce Also Shames the Media
  "Donald Tsang wins “reelection” as Chief Executive while the Hong Kong media quietly practices self-censorship"
  (tags: hongkong elections politics censorship media journalism)
• AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: Foreign media not impressed by hoopla
  "do not think the world has been fooled into thinking a real contest is taking place...What has interested most foreign journalists was the insistence of some locals that it is a real contest, with local television channels planning live coverage."
  (tags: hongkong politics media journalism)
• EastSouthWestNorth: A Sociological Analysis of the Hong Kong Chief Executive Election
  "I would suggest that the fight is to change the system such that it is not rigged against people who are not government insiders."
  (tags: hongkong politics journalism media)
• 香港獨立媒體: 曾蔭權的民粹邏輯
  "沒想到八大電子傳媒聯合舉辦的特首候選人論壇結束之後，大家最感興趣的不是任何實質的政策討論，而是曾蔭權和梁家傑的「分化」之爭"
  (tags: hongkong politics media journalism citizenmedia)
• 聞.見.思.錄 » So, what’s next?
  "這天還談特首選舉，似乎已經沒有時效性。算吧，也只是老實交代私見而已"
  (tags: hongkong politics elections)
• Seeing 800 as it is. : Glutter
  "EIGHT FLIPPING HUNDRED special interest people get to vote for the leader of our home of nearly SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE? And they get to call is an ELECTION?"
  (tags: elections hongkong politics)
• EastSouthWestNorth: Netizens Should Be Tolerant
  Roland translates an essay on ChineseNewsNet) by Xue Yong, Netizens Should Be Tolerant. It begins: "I have always believed that there is a fine balance between maintaining Internet civility and defending freedom of speech."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech tolerance ethics)
• Yahoo's Fiasco in China - To Invest More or Not?
  Translation of a Chinese article about Yahoo China, posted on Yeeyan: "Yahoo China let its promising future slipped away because of the hesitance from the headquarter about whether to invest more or now..."
  (tags: china yahoo! chineseinternetresearch search business)
• Baidu and its competitors part II: Sina
  Translation of Keso blog post on Yeeyan. Keso's conclusion: "eventually, openness is going to beat closeness, and self-interest is going to be defeated by mutual-interest, this is not only a trend, this is business. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet business sina baidu)
• US Internet companies' top 10 mistakes in China (1)
  "Getting 10 times higher salary than those Chinese rivals, the US website staffs fear losing their jobs. They'd rather have no performance instead of make mistakes. They take no risk and keep low key...."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch business internet)
• US Internet companies' top 10 mistakes in China (2)
  "US sites normally have the plan to pay 10,000RMB for 100 high-end targeted users. Chinese sites, on the other hand, spend 1,000RMB to recruit 10,000 random customers...."
  (tags: China chineseinternetresearch internet business)
• US Internet companies' top 10 mistakes in China (3)
  "Chinese websites seldom do any advertisement solely for their brands. They like pull-style proactive promotions in order to create speculations, direct revenue, and popularity. And in many cases, users are forced to view ads."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet business)
• Awesome new Web 2.0 Open Source Chinese-English translation site!
  (tags: china translation chineseinternetresearch internet web2.0)