Robert Scoble visits Seagate's Wuxi hard drive factory and sits down with Tan Leong Hooi, VP of Wuxi Manufacturing at Seagate, for a chat.
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A week ago, Shanghaiist hung out with tech blogger, author and podcaster Robert Scoble of Fast Company and other participants of the China 2.0 Tour, enjoying the amazing view of Shanghai from Vue Bar at Hyatt on the Bund. Since then, he's been on a whirlwind tour around China, visiting places like Suzhou, Wuxi, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and now Hong Kong. In this video, he talks to Thomas Crampton about what he's seen and learnt on this trip and how the China of today differs from the China that he saw twelve years ago on his first visit here. more ›

Several days ago, we told you about Chinese blogger Anti getting muzzled for his recent reports about the Beijing News imbroglio. Now, China blog watcher Rebecca MacKinnon reports that it wasn't the Chinese censors that put the kibosh on Anti's MSN Spaces blog -- it was the friendly folks at Microsoft. MacKinnon's post is well worth a read. Blogger and Microsoft employee Robert Scoble is pissed at his company and has offered Anti an uncensored forum to guest blog on his site. (Anti, by the way, seems to have resuscitated his Blog-City blog, which, like all Blog-City blogs, is blocked in China.) It's not a good PR day in the blogosphere for Microsoft -- even the right-wingers are bashing Bill Gates for cuddling up with the "commies." We at Shanghaiist, proud Apple users, doubt Mr. Bill has ever even heard of Mr. Anti. But perhaps this latest development will help shed some mainstream light on the prickly issue of Western companies aiding and abetting China's internet police. more ›