links for 2007-04-20

• China Web2.0 Review » » How Google Can Build Chinese Input Method Better
  "The words are out that Google’s new released Chinese Input Method Editor seems to be using similar vocabulary library with Sogou. ..." (missed this one earlier while sick)
  (tags: google china software sohu language)
• China’s Elite Talk of Democracy in One-Party State - New York Times
  "Communist Party journals and the state-run news media have published a stream of commentaries by retired officials and academics on “political system reform” and the need for “socialist democracy,”..." I recall similar things being reported befor
  (tags: china politics journalism)
• China Herald: Has Google Pinyin been stolen from a competitor?
  "A debate is emerging on the internet whether Google has for its newly released pinyin input system stolen the vocabulary of its competitor Sogou." (Catching up on a story I missed while sick)
  (tags: china google sohu language)
• Administration tried to curb election turnout in key states - baltimoresun.com
  "For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates..."
  (tags: politics u.s.a. democracy vote2008 bush)
• The Conversations Network » Recording Spoken-Word Events Worldwide
  An awesome idea! PodCorps.org is "an all-volunteer team of audio/video producers who record and publish important spoken-word events anywhere in the world."
  (tags: citizenmedia CitizenJournalism journalism media podcasting politics election2008)
• Doug Kaye's PodCorps launches today « Jon Udell
  "Doug’s idea is to create a corps of volunteer stringers who can show up at these events with their digital recorders, process the digital audio, and then publish it — typically at the Internet Archive."
  (tags: audio video podcasting journalism media citizenmedia)
• Uncorked: Wharton's Take on the Internet in China
  "As communicators - both private sector and public sector - attempt to understand the rapidly growing impact of the internet in China, I suggest this read taken from KNOWLEDGE WHARTON."
  (tags: china internet p.r. media journalism blogging newmedia web2.0 mobile wireless)
• Pacific Epoch - Yahoo China To Become China Yahoo
  "Yahoo China will change its name to China Yahoo after May 8, reports ChinaByte quoting Alibaba and Yahoo China insiders."
  (tags: china yahoo! search alibaba internet business)
• 雅虎中国更名中国雅虎五一节后公布_互联网_雅虎中国_天极ChinaByte
  The original Chinese-language article about Yahoo! China's name change on ChinaByte.
  (tags: china yahoo! alibaba business)
• China Media Project: Extortion or official bribery? Zhejiang court rules journalist Meng Huaihu must be punished as a public servant
  "The intermediate court in Hangzhou ruled yesterday that the right to watchdog journalism is a "public right" (公共权利) -- that journalists doing monitoring, in other words, are performing a public duty -- and that Meng is therefore guilty of the com
  (tags: china journalism law media)
• Open source protester crashes speech by Bill Gates at Chinese University
  "A protester calling for free computer software and open source programming crashed a speech Friday by Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates at one of China's top universities."
  (tags: china microsoft opensource)
• Ya,I Yee: Bill Gates in Peking University
  iYee in Shanghai has photos of the open source protester disrupting Bill Gates. It's not clear who took the photos.
  (tags: microsoft china opensource)
• Asia Sentinel - Nailing China’s Nail House
  "It was a great picture and an irresistible story, but the saga of China’s nail house was more complicated than the media – Western and Chinese – let on. We can thank bloggers for digging into the reality."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch blogs blogging journalism internet media nailhouse)
• Asia Sentinel - Australian Magazine Kills Profile of Wendi Murdoch
  "First they commission a major profile of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s young Chinese wife, then they spike the story. Could it be hazardous to upset Rupert down in Oz?"
  (tags: murdoch journalism)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

"Communist Party journals and the state-run news media have published a stream of commentaries by retired officials and academics on “political system reform” and the need for “socialist democracy,”"

A Communist State is theoretically achieved only when it functions as a democracy. If a self proclaimed Communist state is not democratic, then it is actually not a Communist State but exist in name only.

Where else but in a Communist state can you find places named like "Liberation Street" or "Freedom Square" or "People's Square" - all words that reflect Democracy. Only in Communist nations. When one studies the theory of Communism one will see that Communism IS Democracy.

The perfect implementation of Communism must reflect democracy, otherwise it is not really a Communist state.

[mahathir_fan]

Therefore the West shouldn't harbour illusions that given China's elite are accepting democracy that a "Gorbachov" figure would rise up to topple Communism.

The rise of democracy is absolutely consistent with the development of Communism. Democracy is power to the people and Marx once said, "Workers of the world arise". Workers are usually the largest segment of the population. So both theories want power to go to the largest segment of the population.

Even Adolf Hitler who is an anti communist once remarked that the danger of Communism is that it is Democratic when he summarizes his study of Communism in Mein Kampf Chapter 2: "The Jewish doctrine of Marxism rejects the aristocratic principle of Nature and replaces the eternal privilege of power and strength by the mass of numbers and their dead weight. Thus it denies the value of personality in man, contests the significance of nationality and race, and thereby withdraws from humanity the premise of its existence and its culture. As a foundation of the universe, this doctrine would bring about the end of any order intellectually conceivable to man. And as, in this greatest of ail recognizable organisms, the result of an application of such a law could only be chaos, on earth it could only be destruction for the inhabitants of this planet."

In fact, it is actually ironic that Capitalism countries could be considered Democratic. In Capitalist nations, you have places named after corporations: like stadiums like Enron Field.

My explanation is that capitalist nations are democratic only on Election day or certain other days. The rest of the time, they serve the capitalists. As a result, the people living in Capitalist nations "think" they live in a democracy by drawing examples from days in which the nation is Democratic eg. Election Day.