http://www.andrewlih.com/blog New Media researcher Mon, 12 May 2008 19:05:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en URGENT as of Monday afternoon, May 12, 2008. Large sheepdog found in Central Park (新城国际) in Chaoyang district: appears to be a Shetland Sheepdog, found 24 hours ago on Sunday afternoon. Will be turned over to the police in the next day, according to Central Park management, and fate will likely ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/05/11/lost-beijing-dog/ For the last week, gossip web site Valleywag has been dressing down Erik Moeller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, about his previous essays and thoughts about -- and let's use the most 'neutral' term we can for this -- "child sexuality." The "Wag" links to his postings of yesteryear ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/05/08/valleywag-and-erik-moeller/ Billionaire Warren Buffet at his annual shareholder's meeting this week warned about getting too sanctimonious in criticizing China. Via The Standard (HK). Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett issued strong support for the Beijing Olympics saying any effort to boycott the games would be "a terrible mistake." "The United States had a similar ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/05/06/buffet-on-china/ From behind South China Morning Post's paid firewall, here's an article about a university student's Facebook account mysteriously being shut down. No firm proof yet about why it was disabled but it may be related to organizing protests in Hong Kong ahead of the torch arriving on Friday. Facebook cuts protester's ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/04/28/scmp-facebook-cuts-protesters-accounts/ Earlier today on Twitter I commented about the "insanity" that is Robert Scoble following 21,000+ people on the group messaging and microblogging service. Since his bot (software robot) monitors everything on Twitter for mentions of his name, he saw my comment and challenged me. Scobleizer @fuzheado thinks he knows the point ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/04/28/the-point-of-twitter/ Kaiser Kuo has a good writeup on his Twitter conversion. For China-based users it's been a particularly useful application the last few weeks: Pick the right folks to follow and there’s real value: They link to interesting reads — this is to me probably the most useful thing about Twitter — ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/04/23/twittering-china/ Not sure where Narus.com gets their info, but they seem to have the scoop on the details of the CNN DDOS attack last week. Multiple sites of CNN (www.cnn.com, www4.cnn.com, edition.cnn.com) were the target of these attacks. NarusInsight Secure Suite (NSS) reported 2 different kinds of attacks going towards CNN - ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/04/21/cnn-hacker-tech/ You have to give China's citizens credit -- when they're unleashed (no pun intended) and able to express their dismay, they can get creative. Over at Shanghaiist, they have the latest sign to make the rounds, declaring on the taxicab: "refuse to carry frenchmen and dogs." Of course all good moviegoers ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/04/21/no-dogs-or-frenchmen/ An ominous message showed up early Sunday on the Web site of The Sports Network (TSN), one of the more popular sports news destinations in the US: Please Note The Sports Network website and other major news sites have been hacked by a political entity from China, and as a result are ... http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-sports-network-hacked/ How did things get so bad? This is not going to end well. http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/04/19/us-sino-relations/