自从昨天我激动的提出了‘不死的土鸡’这个称呼之后，群众们纷纷响应，直接叫我‘不死的土鸡’或者叫我‘土鸡’。大家的接受能力真强，想当初我叫小精子的时候就很担心有人接受不了，事实证明，人民的心理承受力如铜墙铁壁般坚强。但是，俺，本来一直没能从‘小精子’的阴影中解脱出来，现在突然一失足成千古恨，又莫名其妙的多了一个‘土鸡’的名号。俺决定，‘不死的土鸡’可以继续叫，但是，请简称俺‘不死’！电影有‘无极’，土鸡有‘不死’！
不死今天度过了斗志昂扬的一天，工作态度超级好，对待客户如春天般的热情。客户也确实没说的，晚上又带着我吃了一顿大席面儿。明天我就即将回到家乡北京，现在北京冷不冷？市政建设搞得怎么样了？人民吃得着螃蟹吗？听说北京群众自从我离开之后螃蟹就断顿儿了，我打算跟岐山开个会，解决一下南蟹北调的问题……
另外，我已经在琢磨圣诞节的事体了。
有人希望我能回顾一下以往有意义的圣诞节。说句实话，我花天酒地的日子是从前年开始的，在前年之前，我只是一个热爱生活的小青年儿，远远没有达到娱乐天使的境界。因此我最有意义的一个圣诞节是去年的平安夜。去年，俺发动了....
So it seems fitting to look back on the year in China blogs, with a small virtual award ceremony. Hence the first, and perhaps only, Danwei Model Worker awards, for the best China-related blogs of 2005.
Below the award winners is a list of good English-language blogs about China. No democracy was used in the production of this list.
Chinese language blogs are absent; a list of good Chinese blogs will be published before the end of the year on Danwei. There is however a small list of photoblogs right at the bottom of the list.
English language Model Worker
ESWN
Roland Soong, who writes ESWN, is a one man media machine. His blog is updated almost every day with translations and commentary from Chinese langauge sources in the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The blog provides coverage of the Chinese world that you cannot find anywhere else on the Internet or in print. Aside from the amount and variety of information provided, the blogger's personal idiosyncracies are part of the reading pleasure.
Chinese language Model Worker
Massage Milk
Only noticed by Danwei recently, Massage Milk has shot to the top of the Chinese blog ranking because of a quality about the blog's writing that China needs most: irreverence.
With his online handle 带三个表 being a pun on the Chinese for Jiang Zemin's famously confusing "Three Represents" theory, the author of Massage Milk is an editor at Life Week magazine. He has a sharp line in Beijing cynicism, he's smart, and he's funny.
Other workers who have advanced the cause of international proletarian information junkies:
Image Thief
An American PR executive in China writes about media, PR, China and the oddities of life in Beijing and the rest of the country. A nice mix of cynicism, media savvy and enthusiasm. Image Thief writes well and his stuff is funny.
Bingfeng Teahouse
Shanghainese guy who works in media writes about the Internet, Shanghai, Chinese politics and occasionally food and women. The blogger is an enthusiastic reader and commentor on English language blogs about China, often disagreeing with the opinions of the foreign devils, but always defending their right to express themselves.
The Black China Hand
Self-described as "Random gibberish from a brother on the road in China", it's not gibberish. The Black China Hand sees things in China a little differently from most Americans.
Laowiseass
Occasionally cynical writings of a foreign correspondent based in Beijing.
In the Footsteps of Joseph Rock
Occasionally updated, mostly with photos, this blog documents the writer's walking expeditions to some of the wilder areas of Yunnan and Sichuan, often tracing the travels of American adventurer and botanist Dr. Joseph Rock. The author also once blogged at Leaking State Secrets, where he documented his job at The China Daily with increasing exasperation. He also has a photographic blog at Beijing Observer. All these websites are on Blogspot, which seems to be blocked again in China. Gee thanks Nanny!
Liuzhou Laowai
An Englishman in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province writes about local life. Sadly blocked in China now. Find yourself a proxy server.
China Herald
Regular commentary on Chinese media, social issues and economics by Fons Tuinstra, a Dutch Internet entrepreneur and former foreign correspondent who has lived in Shanghai for many years. Cynical about China but enthusiastic about new media, Tuinstra doesn't really want to speak to you if you don't know what RSS is. He reliably links to anything that is buzzing in the Chinese blog world, and writes also follows business news.
Simon World
Aside from the above-mentioned China Herald, Simon World is another blog that tracks other China-related blogs closely, but extends that coverage to the whole of Asia, particularly East Asia. Simon, the blogger, is an Australian investment banker living in Hong Kong with his family. A combination of his free-trade views and loving way with the links has endeared him to Instapundit, which is good for drawing American eyeballs to the world of China blogs.
Simon World has loads of links to East Asia related stuff, and commentary on Hong Kong and China current affairs. There are sometimes guest bloggers.
Shanghaiist
A member of the Gothamist network, this blog about Shanghai is edited by Dan Washburn, whose personal site, Shanghai Diaries, is well worth a visit.
Peking Duck
One of the longest-running China blogs on this list, Peking Duck includes China news, communist malfeasance and liberal American rants from a PR executive in Taipei. Regular guest bloggers.
Beijing or Bust
Long essays by a returnee Beijinger who makes documentary films. His first film is 'Beijing or Bust' which looks at the lives of American Chinese who have moved to Beijing to live. One of his best posts is Easy Money, in which he describes a job interview for work as a gigolo.
Sinosplice
Written by a linguistics grad student in Shanghai, Sinosplice is an apolitical blog about life in China, with an active comments section and plenty of interesting observations about what goes on in China and how foreigners deal with it. The blogger John Pasden has for a long time helped other people start blogs, and also maintains the comprehensive China Blog List
Talk Talk China
Funny stuff from people who say this: "Having a bad "China day"? If so then you've come to the right place. Dan, DD, and Dawanr are 3 laowai that have been here for way too long (collectively over 45 years!!) and this is where we come to just let all out." The comments section is active and also worth reading. Wilting flowers who can't handle foreigners complaining about spitting and David Wu are not advised to visit.
Signese
Self-described as "A daily look at Chinese characters, as seen by one man and a poorly-treated camera".
Frog in a Well
Group blog about Chinese history. Serious, academic contributors.
Crackpot Chronicles
Veteran of the American 60s rock scene, poet and writer Ellen Sander's blog is a miscellany of commentary on China and the U.S.
Longbow Papers
Wrtitten by Joseph Bosco, husband of the above, the blog covers China and US politics and personal events. Bosco is currently a professor at the Journalism Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University. His students have a blog called We Observe the World.
Serial Deviant
Observations of Xiamen from a Singapore girl
China White
Internet entrepreneur newly arrived in Shanghai chasing a China dream (oh dear...)
Musing Under the Tenement Palm
Xinjiang commentary from an American who used to live there.
Photo blogs
Chinese Triad
Zi Boy
Shanghai Streets
If you know of a blog that should be here, please send email (jeremy at danwei dot org).
A quick note, live from the FeedBurner factory floor. We just released an update to our popular BrowserFriendly feed display service that adds some neat new benefits for publishers, podcasters and most importantly, their potential subscribers out there in the wild, knocking about, yearning for a brighter future. Here's the short list:
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在新一次的WTO峰会马上要在香港举行之际，身在陕西农村的我收到了这样的电子邮件“使少数人富起来的改革”，是反WTO组织预备在香港会议时讨论的材料。当1999年的西雅图暴乱已经变成了历史，我们用看待传奇一般的眼光来注视那个年代，没想到在互联网的帮助下，自己已经置身于整个全球体系之下了（如果确实存在地话）。
当我们只能从电视新闻中看到一面倒地用振奋人心的词语描绘我们的未来的时候，现实给了我们怎样的答案呢？这大概颇耐人寻味。不需要专业的知识背景，也不必理会学术圈纷繁的叫嚷，我们会用自己的眼睛给出答案。当我行走在西部的土地上，反复审视和思考着过去的这20年以来，特别是近十年的社会巨变对于广大农民意味着什么，当我在学校的教室里看着下面坐着的近80名的孩子中只有20％的人有能力升上高中的时候，让我轻易地相信我们的生活正在变得更好，恐怕只能是自欺欺人了。
我说不出太成条理的论据来反驳，自己也不是个性格激烈的人。但我想，也许是时候来反思我们的决定了，WTO真的是唯一的出路吗？有什么是我们自己可以做的？如何来看待我们社会的变化？这不仅需要有兴趣的动力，恐怕更重要的是更广阔的视野吧。
从互联网上得知“白米炸弹客”的存在，更多的是出于对台湾农民的同情与支持，虽然我不会用如此剧烈的方式来表达不同意见，但是从这个事件中我体会到blog以及新媒体的力量。当互联网变成了全球商业文化和资本主义大举入侵的得力工具的时候，它也在悄悄地培养反力量，blog让我们可以听到更多另类的声音，让信息的流通更加的通畅，这也许是我所认识到的工具的力量吧。
| 搜索引擎 | 搜索力指数 | 排名升降 | 份额 |
|
1. Baidu |
185064290 |
 |
57.45% |
|
2. 3721 |
51420182 |
|
15.96% |
|
3. Google |
38499082 |
|
11.95% |
|
4. Yahoo |
25229886 |
|
7.83% |
|
5. Sogou |
8703506 |
|
2.70% |
|
6. Yisou |
8421606 |
|
2.61% |
|
7. iAsk |
1791098 |
 |
0.56% |
|
8. QQ |
1318574 |
 |
0.41% |
|
9. 163 |
978658 |
|
0.30% |
|
10. Zhongsou |
464694 |
|
0.14% |
|
11. Tom |
191082 |
|
0.06% |
|
12. Sohu |
50078 |
|
0.02% |
|
13. China |
16818 |
|
0.01% |
|
14. Sina |
134 |
|
0.00% |
Danny is holding the last Search Engine Strategies conference of the year in Chicago this week. We’ll be there to answer questions and discuss our products. You can see some of my teammates at the following talks:
Tuesday, December 6th (today!)
4:30 PM: the Search Ad Vendors - Doug Stotland, Group Product Manager
Wednesday, December 7th
2:00pm - 3:30pm: Search Engine Q&A on Links – Ramez Naam, Group Program Manager, MSN Search (Continental AB)
Thursday, December 8th
10:45am - 12:00pm: Meet the Crawlers – Ramez Naam, Group Program Manager, MSN Search (Continental AB)
12:30pm - 1:45pm: Meet the Local Search Engines – Kevin Dillon, Product Unit Manager, MSN Local Search (Steven 3&4)
I won’t be attending SES, but I will be at Syndicate next week.
Brady Forrest, MSN Search PM
