Imagethief notices that Beijing city always managed to paint the city billboards for major city event, such as Sino-africa summit. Recently the city government put down many billboards due to “poor construction”: The conspiracy minded among us (Mrs. Imagethief) believe that entire scheme is a ruse to claim Beijing's most valuable billboard space for Olympic advertising or Olympic-related propaganda.
Xujun Eberlein from Inside-out China blogs about a 18-year-old man Sun Zhongjie's act of chopping off his little finger off to protest against the Shanghai Traffic Management Bureau's “hook” on “black taxi driver”.
Roland Soong talks about the inward-looking character of both Hong Kong and Mainland bloggers and discusses the thesis on whether or not cross-border dialogue is possible.
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Reflections on Blogging with Fernando Flores
- Love to know if mr Fernando Flores stil giving workshops!?
And if so when and where?
Thanks
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