After various sources pointed out that Chinese actress/director/blogger/celeb extraordinaire Xu Jinglei's mega-popular blog flew completely underneath the radar of blog search engines and ranking sites such as Technorati, the folks over at Technorati made some changes, and now Xu's blog has displaced Boing Boing as its top ranking blog. Keso, a tech blogger quoted in the Danwei post on this subject, had this to say: more ›

Tipped by Fons at China Herald, we found this interview with the founder of what Fons calls "China's Gawker." Edwyn Chan runs BlogKu Media, a network of five blogs in China. They are: DianZiRen (gadgets and electronics), Shuanga ("funny stuff"), Starpapa (celebrity gossip), Jiaexp (gaming) and Movblog (film). Another blog, Postshow -- which Chan says is "Boing Boing-like" -- is "affiliated" with BlogKu. more ›

Via Boing Boing, we learned of a great China blog called Virtual China. The post that caught Boing Boing's eye is entitled "what's on the BBS today: the inventiveness of farmers" and it highlights some of the "DIY projects" China's farmers are undertaking (likely with all the free time they have thanks to a land-grab). Two of their efforts are pictured. more ›

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The current web trend of exposing Starbucks clones worldwide has finally landed in Shanghai, where the Pudong airport has not so much a Starbucks knockoff, but a very poor attempt to cover up what once was a real Starbucks (we think). Gridskipper comments on this Flickr photo: more ›