http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/10/extra_extra_29.php All comments for Extra! Extra! Robots, SPAM and China's Silicon Valley en-us 2009 shang_kenneth Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:13 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kenneth@shanghaiist.com kenneth@shanghaiist.com 60 http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/10/extra_extra_29.php#comment-205240 http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/10/extra_extra_29.php#comment-205240 Comments Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:26:50 +0800 <p>the economist is way late, but what's worse is that patronizing tone: How to make Confucian communists squirm and the last line ridiculing the professor at the provincial academy of aesthetics. the whole confucian communists thing--the concepts all make sense but taken as a whole, it becomes so nebulous as to be completely worthless, unless of course, your point is just to make a up a snazzy headline. the second point is just mean, because it's easy to ridicule some old conservative, marxist social theory trained intellectual cum bureaucrat when you're ostensibly a western trained intellectual that knows what's what and therefore can wink your sarcastic eye at everything and everyone, except in many cases, yourself. when you ask what is at stake--both in the backstreet dorm boys/super voice girls phenomenon and the concomitant media reports in the west the answer is a big fat 'nothing'. the boys did it for fun, and the Economist responds with a boilerplate analysis--it makes one doubly cynical. </p> http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/10/extra_extra_29.php#comment-205237 http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/10/extra_extra_29.php#comment-205237 Comments Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:42:13 +0800 <p>$4.37? I have that in my wallet. I'll even donate it to the train project.</p>