Extra! Extra! Tea party twitters, crazy college students and the Reporter Test

While Twitter's blocked in China, people are still using it to post sometimes hour-by-hour diaries of their police encounters. [Twitter]
China's youth are getting ever more crazy with 60% of college students reporting feeling isolated and 80% feeling "injustice and subdued." [Women of China]
So China's housing market is showing signs of cooling, but property prices are still going up, making it hard for even the richer middle class to buy real estate. [Wall Street Journal]
So while anyone and their mothers seems to be able to become a reporter elsewhere, in China you will now have to go through a certification system that inlcudes "training in Marxist and communist theories of news." [AP]
China already has 170 cities with more than 1 million people - if it continues to allow mass migrations from rural areas to urban centers, it will have 15 super-cities by 2025. [Financial Times]
Oh that wascally Ai Wei Wei. He and a group of other people sent a letter to all 35 delegations at the NPC, calling for transparency regarding the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. [Global Times]

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