tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65269532024-03-09T06:42:52.530+08:00China Communication ReviewCharleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-74771432815440049092008-02-12T21:34:00.001+08:002008-02-13T21:20:26.735+08:00An inteview with Asia Weekly<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">An interview with me from Asia Weekly about the oversight on the online video.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">中國網路視頻戲謔成絕響</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;"> 張潔平</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">中國網上戲謔諷刺成風,衝擊紅色經典,被視為「惡搞」。廣電總局將出臺新規定,網上傳播視頻須有許可證,引發網友質疑與爭議。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">中國國家廣電總局日前宣佈,將於八、九月份出臺一個新的針對互聯網視頻的監管規定,其內容主要是對視頻網站放任自流的現象進行整頓。新規定出臺後,只有新浪、搜狐、網易等上市公司網站才擁有開展視頻服務的資格,個人如要傳播視頻,則須向廣電總局申領許可證。這個還沒有正式出臺的規則,已經引起了網友和一些相關利益者的疑慮,在這些人口中,廣電總局的這個規定,還有一個通俗目的,叫做「反對惡搞」。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">自從二零零五年底,網路視頻《一個饅頭引發的血案》在中國大陸風行,這部以調侃電影《無極》為目的的搞笑短片在中國掀起一個新的網路娛樂熱點﹕「惡搞」。所謂惡搞,並沒有明確的定義,大多是以娛樂、搞笑為手段,調侃、諷刺權威性的事件,多有顛覆權威和傳統的娛樂效果。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">《饅頭》並不是「惡搞」的首創。九十年代末,視頻短片《大史記》就以中央電視臺和蘇聯老電影為元素,在網路上幽默了一把。此後,網路視頻在原創、搞笑的路線上越走越遠,「惡搞」由最初「非常搞笑」的意思,也逐漸增加了「諷刺」、「調侃」的元素。《饅頭》之後,巨大的媒體反應給作者及相關網站帶來了意想不到的商業利益和社會效應,「惡搞」於是更加迅速地在網路上流行起來。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">隨著網路視頻越來越成熟的發展,惡搞短片的長度、清晰度以及情節編導,已經足以表達一個完整的故事和意識形態。專家認為,一旦意識形態的傳播能力形成,網路視頻,必然要儘快納入到中國輿論監管的體系中去,政府要考慮的,只是時機和監管方法。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">二零零六年四月,一個名為《閃閃的紅星之潘冬子參賽記》的視頻短片在網上流行,短片以經典老電影《閃閃的紅星》為素材,把革命小英雄「惡搞」成了夢想通過選秀比賽得大獎的富家子弟,引起了電影製片方中國八一電影製片廠的強烈抗議。五月開始,八一電影製片廠聯合中央電視臺接連發佈聲明,堅持惡搞革命經典會「傷害一代人的感情」。八月十日,《光明日報》社舉辦「防止網上『惡搞』成風專家座談會」,互聯網專家和官員到會,鄭重聲明「紅色經典不容惡搞」。隨後,國家廣電總局宣佈,近日內出臺監管網路視頻新條例。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">在網友的惡搞引發了主流爭議的時候,國家的監管也就應聲而出了。無論線民反應如何,專家向我們解釋,這絕對不是政府一時的「禁令」。早在二零零三年,廣電總局就公佈了《互聯網等資訊網路傳播視聽節目管理辦法》,把經網路傳播的視聽節目納入廣電總局的管理範疇,規定實行許可證管理制度。當時針對的主要是網路點播服務,包括電視節目、網路電臺節目等等。而這次,新的規定將主要針對網路視頻的監管,不僅包括傳統的點播網站,還包括時下流行的</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">P2P</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">(點對點)下載網站。「監管勢在必行,具體操作方法有待解決」──這是多數專家對於新規定的看法。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">香港大學新聞與傳媒中心研究員Charles Feng認為,美國的網路視頻也有監管,但與中國不同的是,美國法律明確規定的監管主要只有兩條﹕知識產權保護和未成年人保護。涉及侵權的網路視頻,將被起訴﹔公共圖書館以及學校內,將強制安裝過濾系統,過濾色情、暴力的視頻短片對未成年人的影響。而網路視頻的內容,除了門戶網站自律式的清理之外,政府一般不予干預。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">Charles Feng</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">認為,網路視頻監管,存在幾個現實問題﹕</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">一是經濟因素。網路視頻背後的巨大商機,很可能帶動新媒體的革命,甚至逐漸改變現有的電影音樂工業的格局,這股力量既不能小看,也不能扼殺。「所以從這次的新規定可以看出,國家監管對上市公司是另當別論的。因為上市公司的收益影響到國際聲譽,也影響到中國在互聯網產業的經濟收益。經濟第一的原則之下,只要上市公司有嚴格的自我審查,國家規定是可以相對寬容的。」</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">視頻比文字難監管</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">二是操作的難度。「這次監管,仍然只能從管理網站、管理人來下手,但是對於網路中隨時流散的短片,比如流傳在論壇裏的,個人之間通過網路傳播的,管理難度很大。」視頻不同於文字,不可能像使用關鍵字過濾監控文字資訊一樣監控視頻,這樣的技術幾年內都不可能實現。而如果對短片無法有效管理,這個監管辦法的實際意義也就不大了。</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">三是監管的標準。什麼是惡搞﹖惡搞本身沒有一個標準。國家相應的監管標準也會很模糊。</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">Charles Feng</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">認為,從視頻的時間長度上會設置限制,而從內容上,只能限制一些「影響公眾利益」的視頻傳播。「因為定義模糊,尺度也會比較寬,這種娛樂為主的視頻,只要不影響主流意識形態,不需要嚴厲監管。」「至於實施效果,還是主要看各個網站的自我審查,相比監管,新條例的威懾作用更大。」</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">□</span><span style="" lang="ZH-TW"> </span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family:PMingLiU;">《亞洲週刊》二○○六年第三十五期</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-11850909635312511702007-03-24T14:43:00.000+08:002007-03-24T14:45:16.772+08:00P2P引爆中國媒體革命This article which talks about the impact of the P2P technology on Chinese media was published on Media Dgiest (Hong Kong).<br /><br /> <br />P2P網絡下載技術引發數碼娛樂革命。<br /><br /> 曾幾何時,Napster讓世界第一次認識了P2P的威力,Bit Torrent(BT)讓香港領教了P2P下載的法律後果;而今夏的世界盃,PPStream和TVants讓香港人又知道除了有線電視,他們還可以選擇P2P電視去免費享用這道四年才一次的「大餐」。<br /> P2P名曰對等網絡(Peer To Peer,簡稱P2P),它是一種非中心化的分散式網絡技術。P2P網絡中的參與者既是資源(內容)提供者(伺服器),又是資源使用者(客戶機),資源分散在所有的節點(nodes)上,資訊的傳輸和服務的實現都直接在節點之間進行,因此提供資源線索的Index Server至關重要。早期以Napster為代表的P2P技術仍然有一個中心Index Server,所以不但效能有限,而且法院的一紙禁令就可以關閉整個網絡。現在的大部份P2P技術已經去除了這個中心Index Server,沒有中心數據庫的P2P網絡由用戶互相獲取Index資訊,這樣不但避免了傳輸負載量的瓶頸,而且也保證了整個網絡不可能被封鎖。<br /><br />突破串流媒體瓶頸<br /> 我們都知道傳統的以伺服器為中心的模式中,服務質素受網絡帶寬和伺服器自身的硬體條件限制極大,同時間訪問的人數(客戶機)越多,伺服器的負荷就越重,當超過一定限額,伺服器就會癱瘓。因此,雖然網絡上的串流媒體(Streaming Media)服務發展很早,內容也很豐富,但是因為觀看效果還不盡如人意,所以並沒有形成氣候。雖然像YouTube和Google Video這些新興視頻服務借助Flash技術風靡全球,但是對於大型視頻以及直播的視頻來講,它們仍然不是好的選擇。基於P2P的串流媒體正好解決了傳統串流媒體服務的帶寬瓶頸問題,訪問某個視頻內容的人數越多,這個內容反倒會越流暢。<br /> 在中國大陸,因為知識產權保護的缺位,豐富的內容來源催生了這些P2P電視軟件。這些播放軟件雖然都是面向公眾免費使用,但都企圖針對商業團體和廣播電視台銷售他們的軟件和服務,所以並沒有像BT那樣開放製作軟件程式。這些P2P電視軟件都要依賴他們自己去製作內容及其索引,P2P的效用並沒有完全釋放出來。當用戶過多的時候,也同樣會出現傳統串流媒體經常出現的延遲緩衝播放的現象。即使如此,鑒於P2P電視已經影響了中央電視台(CCTV)的受眾群和市場收益,CCTV日前已經明令禁止各P2P電視轉播其體育頻道。<br /><br />突破電信市場壟斷<br /> 與串流媒體服務一樣,基於P2P的語音服務有著同樣的特性和優異表現,這在Skype等網絡電話軟件中已經得到充份證明。中國電信市場長期以來由電信、網通和聯通等幾家大型國企壟斷經營,中國消費者不得不要比國外消費者多付幾倍、甚至幾十倍的國際長途電話費用,這些電信公司由此聚斂了巨額的壟斷財富。P2P電話軟件讓中國人以低廉的成本享受到優質通訊服務,這也難怪有些地區的電信公司會封殺Skype。<br /> 除此之外,基於P2P的電話軟件已經成為一個多媒體通訊平台,它可以讓用戶安全地打電話、開視頻會議、發送即時消息(Instant Message)和電子郵件。即使與有媒體審查的地區通訊,它也很難被監聽和審查。因此,對於媒體來說,它們已經成為記者和編輯有效而安全的辦公助手。<br /><br />突破廣電媒體審查<br /> 中國政府長期以來實行嚴厲的高壓媒體審查政策,普通民眾不能閱讀境外「違禁」報刊書籍,不能收看境外衛星電視頻道,BBC、VOA等許多國外新聞電台被干擾。撇除版權等法律因素,在純技術考量下,P2P軟件可以讓用戶觀看到任何優質的國外電視廣播。譬如現在中國用戶通過有些P2P電視軟件,不但能觀看到不太敏感的Discovery、ESPN、HBO等娛樂、文化和體育類外國衛星頻道,也能看到過去一般只能在廣東地區看到的香港無扨翡翠台和亞視本港台,還可以收看到CNN、ABC、BBC等傳統管道被禁止「落地」的國外衛星電視新聞節目。<br /> 中國政府已經意識到了這個新的潛在威脅,大部份的商業P2P電視軟件都已經應政府要求,撤除了國外新聞類電視服務。傳統的串流媒體服務都有集中的伺服器提供,如果涉及敏感內容很容易被封掉。而開放的P2P電視與BT下載一樣,內容分佈在節點中,每個用戶就是一個節點,每個用戶都可以成為內容源,審查者根本無從封殺。但遺憾的是,現在的這些商業P2P電視軟體公司大部份不允許用戶自己添加、提供節目,P2P技術的優勢並沒有完全運用和釋放。<br /><br />突破網絡封鎖<br /> 作為媒體審查和監控政策的一部份,中國政府封鎖了大量國外媒體的網站。眾所周知,中國以極大資源投入建立了技術複雜的「金盾工程」,以此封鎖、過濾了大量海外網站。雖然有很多人也知道透過一些海外的代理伺服器能夠繞過封鎖,但是這些代理伺服器也會被發現,從而被封。針對集中式代理服務很容易被封鎖而失效的情況,早期國外一些駭客和自由軟件組織醞釀、開發了基於P2P的動態加密的代理伺服器,譬如Freenet和早期由美國中央情報局(CIA)資助的「三角男孩」(Triangle Boy)。這種技術仍然與BT下載一樣,用戶通過加密訪問國外的節點,有些超級節點(Super Nodes)可以隨時被搜索到,而每當用戶連接成功也加入進去後,它就會也成為一個節點,成為其他人的訪問代理。同樣,這種技術也是越多人使用,訪問速度越快。現在,法輪功和自由軟件組織成為了反網絡封鎖技術的主角,這當中的有些技術也得到美國政府和德國政府的資助。正是因為P2P代理服務很難被有效地封掉,中國政府就仿造這些軟件並散佈到網上,或者他們控制的電腦也加入到P2P代理網絡進去,成為虛假的節點誘騙用戶。而不管怎樣,P2P代理服務是迄今為止最為有效的反網絡封鎖技術。 <br /> 不可否認,影響P2P產業健康發展的是猖獗的盜版行為,這也可能會成為未來中國政府封掉所有P2P埠和服務的藉口。但不管怎樣,P2P技術已經顯示了其魅力和影響力。P2P引發的數碼娛樂革命是現實的,而我們關注P2P更重要的是它對資訊自由暢通傳播的貢獻。<br /> 中國媒體的局勢也許很難因為一個技術創新,迅速地產生革命性的變化,但它已經促使中國媒體市場和管制現狀產生了不大不小的震盪。震盪產生的缺口也許還不是很令人矚目,但它是促使中國媒體這灘死水變革的星星之火。<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-65159913282942636682007-02-09T02:27:00.000+08:002007-02-09T13:43:34.990+08:00How journalists protect themselves under internet censorship and surveillance<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="font-style: italic;">I just finished the draft version of this report. When I have time, I'll add those images in it. I also have all of those software and tools mentioned in this report; if you need it, I might give them to you whenever possible.</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >We probably understand Internet censorship is just to block websites. It is true, but that is only part of it. The more important part of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">internet</span> censorship is to totally block the free flow of information, and track, monitor and torture people who dare influence such goal. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >As journalists, we use and exchange much information. Information security is crucial to journalists’ work. We shall talk about the issue of information security journalists are confronted with mainly from the perspectives of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">internet</span> browsing, system security and security on communication of information.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 21.25pt; text-indent: -21.25pt; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Internet browsing</span></b><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">1.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Choose safer browsers</span></b><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >In view of the fact that most virus and malicious programs direct at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, using <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Firefox</span> which is developed and maintained by a non-profit foundation might be</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >a better choice. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Besides, you should install some security extensions for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Firefox</span> at https://addons.mozilla.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">1.2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Anonymous proxies <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Remember, never use unsafe proxy servers unscrupulously, as some free proxy servers which might be baits can record your <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">IP</span> address and other important system information and</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > hence</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">trac</span></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >k</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > you based on those information you provided. You must choose safer anonymous proxy tools. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">1.2.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Web based proxies <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >There are lots of anonymous safe proxy tools you can choose. The first is web based proxies. Such proxies have </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >P</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">roxify</span></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >,</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Proxy</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >web.net, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">unipeak</span>.com, Anon</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">ymouse</span>.org, </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Google language tools</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > and so on. If you simply visit web pages, you can just use those services safely.<o:p></o:p></span></p><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">1.2.2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Software based proxies <o:p></o:p></span></b> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >However, those web based proxies might have been blocked as well. Therefore, you need software based anonymous proxies. There are also lots of such tools as Hide <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">IP</span> Platinum, </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Anonymizer</span></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >,</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Circumventor</span></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >,</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >and </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >HTTP-Tunnel whose</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > version of</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > high bandwidth needs to pay</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >. In addition,</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > P2P based </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >proxy </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >programs as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Freenet</span>, Tor</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > (better used with P</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">roxify</span></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >)</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">JAP</span>, </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >and </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Freegate</span> </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >could be safer and more stable. Moreover, you should download them from official websites, because faked proxy tools are able to trace you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">1.2.3<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">VPN</span> service<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >If your corporation has <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">VPN</span> (Virtual Public Network) service, it will be very convenient and safe for you to use the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">internet</span> when you work in censored countries. Even if your corporation does not have such service, you still can use some free <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">VPN</span> service like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">secureix</span>.com, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">iPIG</span> which can encrypt all the Internet communications including <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">WiFi</span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">HotSpotVPN</span> which needs to pay. Besides, if you have an additional computer on hand, you could install <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">OpenVPN</span> service or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">SoftEther</span> on this computer before you leave. In that case, both you and the friends who you correspond with will be safe over the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">internet</span>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">1.3<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Beware of viruses, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">phishers</span> and hackers <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >More and more <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">spyware</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">adware</span> and Trojan Horse programs are concealed in the </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >web </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >page</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >s. That</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > means if you visit a website contain</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">ing</span></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > those programs; your computer would be infected. More fatally, anti-virus programs usually do not help at this time. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >To prevent that from happening, you should keep a good habit not to download illegal software, MP3 files, or visit unknown websites. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >A</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > good remedy is to use <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">McAfee</span> Site-advisor</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">siteadvisor</span>.com)</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >, which gives hints and suggestions on many websites. If you are not sure </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >whether or not</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > you could visit some websites you searched, to follow advisor’s advice. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">1.4<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Cache and cookies <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Some programs like Web Cache <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Illuminator</span> can find what websites you ever visited by analyzing your cache. Therefore, be sure to delete the cache completely. Cookies are some file</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >s</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > that record user’s system and web accessing information. It is usually safe and useful, but </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >it</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > could be exploited by hackers and censors. Therefore, you either turn off cookies in the browser, or delete them after browsing every time. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 21.25pt; text-indent: -21.25pt; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Computer system security <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Password protection</span></b><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >It is the easiest way to protest you to set up </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >strong </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >passwords</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > which are as long and </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >complex enough </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >as possible </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >for your system, and BIOS. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Moreover, you should set up startup, supervisor and hard disk passwords respectively in the BIOS configuration. What is more important, even if your hard disk is taken away by other people, they cannot see the contents in your hard disk with hard disk password. However, not all computers support hard disk password protection. In this regard, you can use some special software as PGP </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >(pretty Good Privacy)</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > elaborated in the below to lock your hard disk.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Encrypt hard disks and files <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >You must have your </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >own </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >ways to protect your documents, such as to encrypt them with Winrar, sending them to your E-mail accounts and etc. They are not safe enough actually, because </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >simple</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > encryption could be decrypted, and E-mail account could be intruded. PGP which has been commercialized, OpenPGP and True Crypt both of which are free software, are the best solutions every since. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >They</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > can encrypt your hard disk</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >s, removable disks, flash memory</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > and documents with algorithms as high as 4096 bit. Except you, nobody could </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >open</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > your hard disk and documents under such circumstances. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.3<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Delete files completely <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >You can delete files on the computer easily using your mouse. However, they can also be recovered easily, even if you have formatted or re-partitionized your hard disk. Finadata, Easy Recovery, Disk Genius and such tools are data recovery experts. Therefore, if you do not want your files to be recovered by other people, you should encrypt them with tools mentioned above, or use some tools as PGP, Eraser and <span style="color:black;">Shredder</span> which can truly delete files completely. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1031" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:6in;height:297.75pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Charles\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image014.jpg" title="finadata1"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.4<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Firewall, anti-virus and anti-malicious-programs tools <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.4.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >BlackIce and <st1:givenname st="on">Norton</st1:givenname> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >If you do not install a firewall on your computer, that means you do not have a door in your house. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >The f</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >irewall as BlackIce is very important to protect your </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >computer </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >from intrud</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >ing</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >. You should configure it </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >carefully</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >. In addition, anti-virus software is also very important without doubt. You can choose software which you trust. <st1:givenname st="on">Norton</st1:givenname> </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >corporate version </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >is a nice choice as it has good performance in the anti-virus and anti-hackers. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Remember to scan your system periodically in the “safe mode”.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.4.2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Microsoft </span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Windows </span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >defender, Spybot- search &Destroy, System repair engineer <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >If you are suspicious that you</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >r</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > computer might have been infected by some spyware and ad-ware, you should use some specialized tools as Microsoft’s </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Windows </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Defender, Spybot- search &Destroy</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > to detect and clean them</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >. Besides, System Repair Engineer can recover your registry, browser and system configurations to be normal. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.5<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Beware of loopholes of system <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.5.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Turn off unnecessary services <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Service in the Windows is very crucial to the normal operation of system. However, there are still many services that </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >ordinary </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >people seldom use. Moreover, they might become the loopholes that hackers exploit. Therefore, you need to turn off some services like “Server”, “Remote Registry”, “Terminal Services” and etc</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >.</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > in the service configuration. You thereby can save precious memory, and decrease the chan</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >c</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >e to be attacked. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.5.2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Update patches <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >As we all know, Windows has many bugs and loopholes. So we should update patches as we update virus definitions frequently. If possible, the best way is to let Windows update automatically (turn on “Automatic Updates” in the Service mentioned above). Otherwise, you can install Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, and scan your computer frequently.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">2.5.3<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Shadow systems or virtual machines <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >If you need to visit many dangerous websites and test many programs for the working purpose, you can install shadow system like Power Shadow. With them, </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >all the viruses will disappear and that </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >everything will be recovered to be normal after you restart your system. Otherwise, you can install virtual machines like Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation and VMWare. Even if the virtual system is damaged by viruses, or intruded by hackers, you can delete this system as you delete a document on you computer. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 21.25pt; text-indent: -21.25pt; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Communication security</span></b><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >E-mail</span></b><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >E-mail is probably the most popular application people use. As a journalist, you might need to contact a person inside a country censored, or you are doing interview in that country. Beware of your E-mail communication, as it might make you or your interviewees in the very dangerous situation. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.1.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Free </span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >and anonymous </span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >e-mail services</span></b><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >First of all, you should choose safe E-mail services. Generally speaking, Gm</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >a</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >il and Hotmail have been safe enough to use. However, if you are not sure, you can use Hushmail. It uses Java technology and very high level encryption algorithms, so that nobody including Hushmail itself is able to crack your E-mails. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span class="style10"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >If you send you E-mails, yet do not want other people to see your address, you need anonymous E-mail accounts. </span></span><span class="style10"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >MyTrashMail</span></span><span class="style10"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > provides such service, which let you receive mails normally while leaving fake E-mail accounts publicly. </span></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >AnonymousSpeech.com </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >is able to let people send secure E-mails totally anonymously. <span class="style10">Besides, some remailers as </span></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Cypherpunk</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >, </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Mixmaster</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > and </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Mixminion allow anyone to post to a newsgroup or send an </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >E-</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >mail while remaining anonymous.</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.1.2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Encryption <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >As such, you should use PGP, or OpenPGP (www.gpg4win.org) to encrypt every important E-mail message. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >They</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >can make</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > your messages to be seen only by people who you informed the decryption keys. Even if the encrypted emails are intercepted and accessed, its contents are meaningless without the decryption key. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.1.3<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Strong passwords and change frequently. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Password for your E-mail account should be strong enough (as long and complex as you can remember) and change frequently. Comparatively speaking, using client E-mail tools is safer than to check mails on the web, because some Trojan Horse programs can record and steal your web based E-mail account information. Furthermore, seeing that Outlook is usually the target of attack, you might as well use alternative E-mail client tools as Thunderbird developed by the same organization as Firefox and Sylpheed-Claws which </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >has been</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > well integrated with OpenPGP. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.1.4<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Un-identified and phis</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >h</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >ing mails <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Some E-mails you received could </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >steal</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > your important system information as IP address. This could be a start of premeditated attack. Therefore, you had better refuse to receive HTML mails and not let E-mails including images display automatically. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Inst</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >ant</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > messaging applications <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >We might know instant messaging applications as MSN, IM, ICQ and etc. can be wiretapped. You should be aware of encrypting your communication in your IM communications. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.2.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Encryption <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >There are some tools as MSNshell can encrypt communication on MSN. With such programs, even if your communication has been wiretapped, they are not able to understand what you </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >imputed</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.3<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Martus</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >-Human Rights Bulletin System</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >At the end of this part, I would like to introduce a publication system </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >named Martus </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >which renders people to publish high confidential information safely. For example, your source providers who are in the censored countries can report stories </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >via</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > this system to your organization very safely. When users wish to store information, they create a bulletin which, by default, is kept secret and available only to the group who generated that Martus account. The Martus software automatically records information in the <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1041" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:6in;height:324pt'"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Charles\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image032.jpg" title="martus-human rights-bulletin system"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->bulletin. The user then types in a subject, keywords, the date of the incident, a short summary and a more extended description. This data is then saved as a bulletin which can be updated. Martus automatically copies and backs up bulletins that have been saved to a designated Martus Server.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.3.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Un-identified invitations <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Besides, you should refuse any un-identified invitations in the instant messagers. If they are malicious hackers, your IP address will be exposed to them after you accept them. And then you will be vulnerable to attack. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.4<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >VOIP </span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >(Voice over Internet Protocol)</span></b><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1042" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'width:128.25pt;height:282pt;" allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Charles\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image034.jpg" title="zonfone"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--></span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >VOIP applications like Skype actually have been very safe as opposed to traditional telephone communication. However, some evidences have shown VOIP communication can also be intercepted and wiretapped. PGP </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >and </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Zfone created </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >by t</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >he inventor of PGP can encrypt </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >VOIP </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >communication. It would be much safer than before. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 49.6pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.5<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Smart cell phones <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Smart phones are actually a kind of </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >mini</span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > computer, which can run lots of software program including viruses. </span><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Therefore, you need to install some protective tools to keep your mobile communication safe.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.5.1<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Pointsec for Symbian <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >The biggest threat is that your mobile communication could be listened in. Some equipment can wiretap cell phone communication within certain distance, and even listen in to your background sound around your cell phone. Therefore, you had better cut your cell phone’s power off when you talk about important things. Do not just press the button of “power off”, while you should take the battery out. Besides, you can install some encryption software like</span><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" > </span></b><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Pointsec</span><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >.</span></b><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14.15pt 70.9pt; text-indent: -1cm; font-family: times new roman;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><span style="">3.5.2<span style=";font-size:7;" > </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >Anti-viruses and firewalls <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >As such, you should also install some tools of anti-viruses and firewalls as you do on the computer. McAfee has rolled out its anti-viruses and firewall products for mobile platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 14.15pt; font-family: times new roman;"><span style=";font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" >As journalists, we might have got used to different kind of threats, and yet information security could be usually ignored. Therefore, in order to protect ourselves, good habits and consciousness are more important than those tools we introduced. Moreover, technology is always in the paradox, which means that there is no absolute security even if you have equipped all those tools. We are aware there is a threat, and the wisest way is to keep the threat as minimal as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1141043931243591702006-02-27T20:31:00.000+08:002006-02-27T22:08:41.673+08:00lament "Freezing Point"<div align="left"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:新宋体;">This poem was written by me when "freezing Point" was shut down. Although it has been permitted to resume publishment, the soul of "freezing point" has been gone. It isn't permitted to die gracefully.<br /><br />此文是《冰点》被禁后有感而发。虽然现在《冰点》已经复刊,但是创办《冰点》的李大同、卢跃刚被清理。《冰点》连光明正大地死的机会都没有,只能活着被凌辱。</span></span></span> </div> <p align="center"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:新宋体;">《冰点》祭<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></b></p> <p align="center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US"><span style=";font-family:新宋体;font-size:100%;" > </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:新宋体;">千年神州的华容,唯残存一滴菁华,潺潺流淌。十载苦寒,成就一点,蕴化苍生。<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:新宋体;">天地之前,万物皆刍狗。不仁当道,窦娥丛现。冰心情溢,不惜点滴己力,智对威逼,坚拒利诱,匡不正、扶浩义。冰壶大如海,却只盛民意。冰清比玉洁,只因处淤泥而不染。<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US"><span style=";font-family:新宋体;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:新宋体;">值寒冬之时,冰点却溶化。浩浩汤汤,冲破长城,越过九鼎,腾向宇宙的最高方。不留一丝污痕,在这阴间。<span lang="EN-US"></span></span> </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:新宋体;font-size:100%;" >那是浴火啊,但她不学那凤凰涅磐,只呻吟无痛的鸟歌,还要落地之后,用它的爪牙,钳我手</span><a title="" href="http://spaces.msn.com/mmm2006-02-08_10.09/#_ftn1"><font><span lang="EN-US"><font><font><span style=";font-family:新宋体;font-size:12;" lang="EN-US" ><u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">[1]</span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:新宋体;"><font><font><font>。冰点飞天,是为了催生更强大的自己啊<span lang="EN-US">,</span>也为了革新这腐朽的尘世。<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><font><font><font> </span></span></span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:新宋体;"><font><font><font>冰啊,你这尘世的最后一点冰啊,没有了你,这群豺狼们啊,更要去发狂。冰啊,你这尘世的最后一点冰啊,没有了你,这井中的人们啊,即要滑入深渊。冰啊,你这尘世的最后一点冰啊,没有了你,我这个毛人啊,就要去嗜血。<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><font><font><font> </span></span></span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:新宋体;"><font><font><font>看啊,天都在结冰。看吧,看吧!这世界都要结冰!<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><font><font><font> </span></span></span><div><font><font><font><br /><span style=";font-family:新宋体;font-size:100%;" > <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"> </span> </span></span></span><div><font><font><font> </span></span></span><p><font><font><font><a title="" href="http://spaces.msn.com/mmm2006-02-08_10.09/#_ftnref1"><font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US"><font><font><span style=";font-family:新宋体;font-size:9;" lang="EN-US" ><u>[1]</u></span></span></span></span><font><font></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:新宋体;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US"><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font><font><font>《凤凰涅磐》是郭沫若</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10;" lang="EN-US" ><font><font><font>1920</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10;" ><font><font><font>年代的作品。郭沫若通过《凤歌》、《凰歌》、《群鸟歌》及《凤凰更生歌》来诅咒当时腐朽的中国军阀政权。郭沫若也从当时北伐革命的参与者、独裁政府的反对者,一步步兑变为毛泽东的爪牙。</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1141043495725403972006-02-27T20:28:00.000+08:002006-02-27T20:31:35.736+08:00Elite or grassroot for blog service providers?<div> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I really don't have the time to translate my article which was written days ago.</span> <p>这是老掉牙的问题,也是仁者见仁,智者见智的问题。<br />今天,凤凰卫视的闾秋露微来给本科生做讲座,讲完,还不忘宣传她的Blog。我问她跟新浪是怎么合作的,她说新浪只是提供空间,没有其他任何利益交换。她说她非常重视网友的留言。这让我又捡起这个争议,重新思考它。<br />Blog 在国外被认为草根民主的代表革新,在中国,Blog在普通民众中到底会有什么影响力?会有多大的影响力?对中国社会会有什么影响?这些问题也许不值得问, 因为这不是一句话能说清的,而是一个大的社会科学的命题。但我,在我没有做科学的研究之前,通过一些事例和Blog出现前的情况对比,也许可以有一个初步 的回答。<br />我的第一个主页是98年做的,自学了很多软件,做完再用电话线拨号、通过FTP工具传到免费主页空间。我还记得以前给学生讲用HTML、 ASP语言,用Dreamweaver、Prontpage、Coldfusion、PS、Flash等工具做网站,学生尤其是女生听得头大,我讲得也很 辛苦。Blog就是替代个人主页的应用,几岁孩子的都会应用。看Sohu的一个Blogger调查,中国的Blogger女生比男生还多。看,这就是 Blog的社会影响力。有人说,Blog实在不能算是什么发明,因为很多功能以前的个人主页都可以提供。这话一点没错。98年之前的个人主页空间已经可以 提供模版、评论等功能。但是区别是确实存在的,而且差别还不小。个人主页是让你既是建筑师、工程师、艺术家、文学家,又是什么其他的什么家,并且当时的社 会、知识、技术基础决定了一才多能类型的人是中心。我记得我原来认识的一个台湾女孩,人长得漂亮,也很有才气,但天天抱着计算机书看。这是什么样的反差。 而Blog到现在是应运而生,需要大家各就位、司其职了。这时候,网络本身与报纸、杂志、黑板报、街头涂鸦一样,工具本身不再重要,重要的是之上的内容 了。(得罪先知麦克卢汉先生了)所以当你觉得自己写日记藏在枕头下对于父母的检查不再保险、也不方便与你好友分享的时候,当你在厕所墙上乱涂还不过瘾的时 候,当你激情洋溢地宣扬个人理想被人骂作神经病的时候,当你要贴大字报表达你的主张而被处罚的时候,你发现Blog,是一个不错的替代品。<br />精英,首先也是个人。他也有除了让他出名的职业之外的情趣。Blog同样对于他们很重要。一些商业网站邀请一些精英写Blog,正是以一个正式的理想满足了自己的愿望。<br 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This made the democratic destiny of HK be stranded again into the uncertainties. Last night, I was watching the live coverage of Legco's vote. The final result was not suspensive on the last day, because the people who were hesitant seemed to be determined. I am thinking what most matters after all about the whole process.<br />Government officials blamed Bishop Zen and Legislator Martin Lee that they should be responsible for the standoff. In other words, are the two persons who influenced the final results and turned the scales? Otherwise, is it like what MingPao said today, that is, it was because of the Three Bundle of Cigarettes including Bishop Zen, former chief secretary, Anson Chan and Next Media's Chairman, Jimmy Lai. We should remember the advertising war waged by Jimmy Lai in the late October. We also remember Bishop summoned all the pan-democratic members and called on his followers to protest on Dec.4th. We must remember Anson Chan joined the big march, and also held the press conference later to publicly express the disapproval of government's proposal. It seems to be so. However, can they influence those legislators? If it's in the western countries, we gotta say of course it is; because constituencies' will influence legislators'. HK doesn't embrace full democracy yet, who on earth influences whom? I'd like to anatomize the vote behind the scene next.<br />The total number of 60 legislators in HK composes of 30 persons by direction election in the respective constituencies and of the rest by functional constituencies. In the Legco election in 2004, pro-democratic camp won the 60% of the votes in the direct election, while pro-Beijing camp won the 77% of the votes in the election of functional constituencies. Before the vote on the proposals, government can definitely get 11 votes from pro-Beijing legislators who come from direct election, plus 23 votes from pro-Beijing legislators who come from functional constituencies. The eight independent legislators without party background had become the determinant factor. But the four who come from direct election won't definitely vote for the proposal, because they knew what their constituencies thought. The result is that one of them abstained (I think he took both his political wisdom and risk). Until now, there has been not any chance for government to win the 2/3 votes to pass the proposal. The rest in the functional constituencies hadn't mattered to the whole situation. The media in Hk said the legislator from the Accountant field is the miss democracy. That's too sensational, too much to say that. We can see a reality from the vote, there are seven fields in the functional constituencies are the democratic power, which represents 25% of the total number of 28 functional fields. The government's proposal about the Legco increased the total seats from 60 to 70, and five of them are from direct election; the rest of them are from district council members. However, 102 of the total 529 district council members are appointed by Chief Executive. That is why many people oppose to the proposal and call for universal suffrage. I dare say Beijing would compromise, and HK government would give the new proposal which both sides can accept. When will be the universal suffrage for HK? 2007/2008? 2012? Judged by the current information, 2012 seems to be more possible. You bet? I just hope so.<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1135093097934569442005-12-20T23:20:00.000+08:002005-12-21T15:15:19.090+08:00Hong Kong blogger in the demonstration against WTO: Report personally<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://curbside.jmsc.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core%3ADownloadItem&g2_itemId=1050"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://curbside.jmsc.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core%3ADownloadItem&g2_itemId=1050" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min05_e/min05_e.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference</span></a> was held in <st1:place st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place>, 13-18 December 2005. Thousands of anti-globalization campaigners, especially South Korean farmers who has been opposing to opening their rice market by the agreement South Korean government made with WTO, had protested across central Hong Kong, carrying huge banners, chanting, banging drums, and fighting with policemen of Hong Kong. <o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>Most of the bloggers in <st1:place st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> who joined the demonstration against WTO personally were supporting the South Korean farmers’ appeals from the bottom of heart, which is similar to the demonstration against universal suffrage on Dec.4. HK bloggers played the role of not only civic reporters, but the practitioners of grass root power. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>Majority of bloggers in the <a href="http://www.inmediahk.net/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">inmediahk</span></a> are strongly against WTO, and support South Korean farmers staunchly. They reported the daily demonstration using their first hand source. When<a href="http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=8190&sid=5964191&con_type=5&d_str=20051219&sear_year=2005"> the riot</a> took place on Dec. 17, some of them were shot by water cannon, and nearly suffocated by tear gas and pepper spray. They condemned what HK police did against protesters, and described it was the shame of HK. Interestingly, if there was one person who expressed the different view with them, they besieged and censured him.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://jmsc.hku.hk/">The Journalism and Media Study Center</a> at <a href="http://www.hku.hk/">the University of Hong Kong</a> joined by HK’s reputable English newspaper, <a href="http://www.thestandard.com.hk/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Standard</span></a> and the well-known <a href="http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">EastSouthWestNorth</span></a> blogger, Roland Soong established a dedicated blog style website for this WTO ministerial meeting named <a href="http://curbside.jmsc.org/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Curbside @ WTO</span></a> .Curbside reported the daily meeting formally, and post personal feelings in the item of <a href="http://curbside.jmsc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=5&Itemid=42">web log</a> by its tens of master students in the journalism school. One of them, <a href="http://curbside.jmsc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=33"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jonathan Lee</span></a> thinks Hong Kong Police's motto of “We serve with pride and care" is being exercised to the fullest, and he also believed that <a href="http://curbside.jmsc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=33"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the unsung heroes of Hong Kong</span></a> during the demonstrations are those street cleaners in HK.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>The eloquent HK blogger, <a href="http://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Glutter</span></a> also joined the demonstration against WTO, and talked a lot about her observations and feelings in her rants during the meeting. She expressed deep disappointment to the protest in the <a href="http://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/2005/12/violence_is_not.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">WTO Diary: Genuine Concerns Turns First World Violent Entertainment</span></a>. She said, “the reason I left was I felt really disappointed by a lot of <st1:place st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> people who turned up were just standing around blocking the protesters and the police… The reason that really made me totally embarrassed and made me want to leave the whole thing was reading the "Declarations" of the <st1:place st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> hunger strikers. It was total bullshit, what they were demanding they wanted the negotiation on agriculture and fisheries removed from the WTO table meaning everything remains status quo and it doesn't help the cause at all”. In her another post named <a href="http://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/2005/12/globalize_trade.html#comment-12196863"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Globalize Trade, Globalized Violence, Violence of poverty, and Having the Strength of Convictions to Deal with Consequences</span></a>, she said, “the police has my respect for being completely restraint. I have never seen such a lack of forward attack happen between police and protesters considering how violent it was. The South Korean farmers have my respect for having the strength of conviction with following up with what their threats were and dealing with the consequences with honor and respect. They put their bodies and lives at risk, they willingly put themselves out there because they feel they are being hurt by globalization and danced for hours and chanted for hours while surrounded by police in defiance and belief”. Finally, she said, “all I can say is no matter what, how I feel is a complete failure of the Anti-WTO movement in being unable to express themselves in any logical way”.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>Yahoo <st1:place st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> conducted a survey which </span><span style="" lang="EN-US">9</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">.</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">594</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"> thousand people participate in as of Dec. 19. Responding to the question that if you agree with what anti-WTO protesters did, tremendously 68% of participants recognize, only 26% of them don’t. And yet 65% of the respondents think the action that HK police’s took against protesters are proper, even 14% of them consider it too tolerant. This is the public opinion of HK people. They love freedom and fairness, as well as rule of law.<br />(the photo in this article was taken by </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Simon Song at Curbside)</span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1134496032938981722005-12-14T01:13:00.000+08:002005-12-18T20:17:46.426+08:00Shanwei Incident Implied the Cost of China’s Economic Miracle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/zh/7/72/Wq02.jpg"></a><span lang="EN-US">The incident happened in Shanwei (汕尾)certainly demonstrated the weak capability of Chinese government to cope with the social crisis again. Many people even associated it with June 4<sup>th</sup> incident. There was another case similar to Shanwei incident taking place in Hanyuan city, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Sichuan</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Province</st1:placetype></st1:place> late last year. Government in <st1:state st="on">Sichuan</st1:state> confiscated farmers’ lands, planning to construct a power plant near <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Dadu</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The peasants in Hanyuan who lost their lands stopped the plant's construction, demanding government to increase the compensation level. When clashes began, the Police opened fire. The incident was cracked down on by force, ending with tens of peasant's death.<?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>Coincidentally, <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place> broke out the massive riot due to the racial hatred on Dec.12nd. This is for the same cause with what happened in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Paris</st1:city></st1:place> last month. Although the riots there were serious, there were few death reports (only one man died in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>). Whereas there are more than 50 nationalities in <st1:country-region st="on">China</st1:country-region>, the racial violence case like the grim conflict between Hui (Chinese Muslim) and Han Nationality which led to tens of death toll in Zhongmu of Henan Province last year was rare, except for the hot spot regions like Xijiang and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Tibet</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Furthermore, when the riot was happening, nobody saw policemen. Every time what the police did was to arrest the rioters afterwards, and left behind the large casualties. It seems that the Chinese police aren’t to protect people, but merely protect the authority instead. People fight with each other; it’s none of my business. If you fight with me, I’ll open fire. Moreover, it's real gun. They won't even use stun guns, pepper sprays, tasers, rubber bullet or other intimidating purpose weapons which have also been criticized by international consensus.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0GUrriIbwj8" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The minister of Public Security, Zhou Yongkang said in June this year, 74 thousand demonstrations happened in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> last year. Zhou said that most of them were triggered by economic reasons like land and property disputes, and power abuse by local officials like the Wanzhou incident (a city of <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Chongqing</st1:place></st1:city> Municipality). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>That sounded reasonable. However, if we look into the overall social situation in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, I would say the riots or violent activities will most probably go on happening. Chinese government hopes to mitigate the level of unrest which was dormant in the untold corners of society, by all means of keeping high economic growth rate. Paradoxically, the high economic growth in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> depends much on depriving people’s rights. It was said that present Chinese economy was braced by 3“<i>C</i>”. That is, construction, car, and coal. Therefore, that is why there are so many cases about coal mine accidents, demonstrations for losing property, and traffic accidents (<st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> amounted for over 20 percent of total traffic accidents in the world last year).<o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Shanwei incident not only implied the officials’ weak capability of good governance, but alarmingly signaled that <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> has gotten into very severe situation. If such abnormal model of economic growth continues without political reform, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> might become the most powerful economic entity some day as somebody anticipates. However, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> would also possibly strand deeply in the big unrest if his people can’t choose their popular governors, moreover, have been dissatisfying with their rulers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1134064846828160902005-12-09T02:00:00.000+08:002005-12-12T15:38:02.413+08:00Roundups of the march in HK-babies' festival<span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1010024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/200/P1010024.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >The press in Hong Kong were debating the motivation why Anson Chan joined the march on Dec. th recently. And, they also reported that the different reati</span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >ons to</span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" > comparison between Anson Chan and Aung San Suu Kyi which I first broached in my blog. It seems that democractic camp doesn't like Anson Chan very much. Tt's interesting to observe the progress of political situation in HK. There isn't any absolute accredited political leader in HK, and their political performances are mediocre, but they would rather be the leader themselves.</span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1010028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/200/P1010028.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><br />I interviewed serveral persons who were joining the march on that day.<br /></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; font-family: arial;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US">A pro-Taiwan organization named Confederation of Free League &</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US"> China Youth-Service League in Hong Kong said, ““Father of China”, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, had told us that people couldn't have their own rights until the country has democracy, yet we are still arguing whether democracy is good and right, or not”. They said that political situation in <st1:place st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> has retrograded. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; font-family: arial;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US">Two retirees who took hold of banners calling for </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1010019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/200/P1010019.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US">universal suffrage said they de</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US">cided to come to the march from the very beginning. They came there not for themselves, but for the youth. They thought that Donald Tsang's proposal was unreasonable and it would deprive people's human right. Another old marcher also said he came to struggle for his children. A college student said that he and his classmates decided to come to the march from the very beginning as well. He also touched on the ads heavily placed by pro-democracy camp before the march. “The ads just specified the details of the march; I came here not being influenced by them”. A clerk said they decided to come at the early beginning. She also mentioned that most of her friends came to join the demonstration. An elderly retired person who had been standing outside the parade said that he</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1010021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1010021.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US"> supported the universal suffrage; the reason why he didn’t join the march was because he preferred to look into the process of the whole march. “If I join the march personally, I can not see what happens in the behind of the parade”.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; font-family: arial;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">There were lots of prams in the march then. It seemed to be a festival indeed. Babies enjoyed the march, but their parents had a more ponderous mission for Hong Kong's future.<br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1133871970658047022005-12-06T20:08:00.000+08:002005-12-11T23:54:29.510+08:00Roundups of the march in HK-about Anson Chan<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/anson-aung%20san.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/anson-aung%20san.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The roundups of the march on Dec. 4th should be done yesterday, but I composed a reaction story of Hong Kong bloggers for the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices">Global Voices in the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School</a>.<br />First of all, I added the video clip about Anson Chan joining in the march.<br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DrWVWh1KLBE"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DrWVWh1KLBE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"><br />It also can be seen at </object><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-183650375165337830&pl=-183650375165337830,">Google Video.</a><br />The newspaper in HK today talked a lot about why Anson Chan attended the march in a lofty stance. Some said that she might decide to run for the CE in 2007, some said she cannibalized the fruits of pan-democratic camp, some said she wasn't a very enlightened when she was in office, and some even said that she should also be responsible for the failure of governance and economy both in the colonial and Tong CheeHua's time. The march was that Anson Chan showed her attitude to Beijing most strongly in the wake of her essay named <a href="http://www.time.com/time/asia/2004/hk_politics/viewpoint.html">Trust Us</a> in Time magazine in June 2004.<br />Press also mentioned that Anson Chan once had the highest popularity wehn she was in offfice, even higher than the current favorite of HK people, Donald Tsang. It seems that she will probably replace Tsang, if she can run for the post of CE later. And, some bystanders during the march then joined them when they saw Anson Chan was among the parade. It seemd that Anson Chan had the engough preparation for the march.<br />When I was interviewing in the march, I heared some people said Anson Chan didn't need to attend the march personally necessarily. They explained that people knew what Anson Chan thought, and that her presence only made trouble for herself. That's a typical and general thought about Chan's acts. They believed Chan just supported the appeal like any other general citizens.<br />I'm interested in what Anson Chan will do next. Wil<span style="font-size:100%;">l she emulate </span><span style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%82%E5%B1%B1%E7%B4%A0%E5%AD%A3">Aung San Suu Kyi</a>,who is considered as the democratic hero in Bruma, and got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.<br />Here is an interview record of Anson Chan by <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/jan-june98/chan_6-12.html">PBS</a> (America's public broadcasting corporation) </span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:100%;">in 1998</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"> below. It seemd that she has been craving for the universal suffrage in 2007 all the time.<br /></span></span> <p style="font-style: italic;">PHIL PONCE: You talked about the record turnout for the recent elections, and yet, the majority of the people who cast their votes in the popular vote voted for pro-democracy candidates and some of those candidates-Martin Lee, for example,--are saying that the time is now for immediate one person, one vote. </p> <p style="font-style: italic;">ANSON CHAN: I think, of course, people in Hong Kong want more democracy. That is, in fact, what they will get in accordance with the timetable for the development of democratic institutions, that is, election to the legislature. In accordance with our basic law, which is our constitution, there is a specifically laid-out timetable to reach the ultimate target of universal suffrage. And so for our next election, which will be in the year 2000, the number of directly-elected seats in the legislature will increase to 24, and in the year 2004, it will be half the legislature that will be returned by popular vote. And in the year 2007, in accordance with that timetable, the people of Hong Kong can decide for themselves whether to move straight away to universal suffrage. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1133708956854393122005-12-04T23:04:00.000+08:002005-12-05T03:06:29.483+08:00Hong Kong was in the march<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1010115.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1010115.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The intensified debate or even propaganda war on universal suffrage in the past days rang down the curtain this afternoon. Total over 200,000 people was claimed to join the march which started in the Victoria Park in Hong Kong.<br />The biggest news about this march is that former Chief Secretary of HK, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Chan">Anson Chan</a> attended the march in the name of herself. Mrs. Chan has been called the Conscience of Hong Kong because she insisted on the interests of Hong Kong. She was forced to resign in 2001 by Beijing government.<br />The total number of protesters is controversial in eve<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1010076.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1010076.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>ry march in HK. Police department said the total figure is 63,000, but the organizer of the march said the total figure amounts to 250,000. I also once calculated the number by different means. When I first got in the park, I counted the total number of people in the single pitch. There were approximately 3000 persons every pitch, and if so, the total protesters will have 36,000(3000 persons multiply by 12 pitches) in the pitches. The total figures in the Victoria Park probably have 40,000 circa (plus the persons outside the pitches) at 3pm. The march started at 3:10pm or so. I went out of the park, and counted the traffic. There were 600 persons who went by me every minute, and so I speculate that the total number of protesters in the street is 78,000 or so. Even if adding the people joining halfway, the total number at most is about 100,000.<br />There are still many different appeals in this march besides the universal suffrage. For example,<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1010103.jpg"> Falungong</a> (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1010116.jpg">2</a>), <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000999.jpg">anti-WTO</a> (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000822.jpg">2</a>), <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000824.jpg">pro-Taiwan organization</a>, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000837.jpg">human rights group</a>, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000997.jpg">overseas Chinese democratic organization</a>, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1010090.jpg">civil radio</a>, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1010022.jpg">children and women organization</a> (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000844.jpg">2</a>), elder people organization, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000944.jpg">postal labor union</a>, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000845.jpg">estate labor union</a>,<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000859.jpg">educational unions</a> (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000860.jpg">2</a>) (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000992.jpg">3</a>), <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1010094.jpg"> journalists' organization</a>, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000891.jpg">the persons whose rights are abused by others</a> (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1000861.jpg">2</a>), and some other organization also joined the march.<br />The protesters arrived at the <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/640/P1010128.jpg">Government Offices in Battery Path</a>, and requested that Chief Executive, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tsang">Donald Tsang</a>, went out to meet them. However, Donald Tsang met the press at 8:45pm in his <a href="http://www.info.gov.hk/ce/gh/egovhou.htm">Government House</a>. He said that he knew what Hong Kong people required, and he believed he can see the day when universal suffrage comes even if he has been over 60 years old. The protesters left at 9pm even if they dissatisfied with what Donald Tsang said. Some of them claimed that they will come back next Saturday.<br />It's the first time that I complained to myself about the insufficient memory for my digital camera. I can take 150 photos at the resolution of 2560*1920, but I had to delete many photos taken earlier and changed the picture quality to 1900*1600 at the time when the march just began for an hour.<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1133536471744039442005-12-02T23:13:00.000+08:002005-12-03T18:26:32.096+08:00Showdown for Democracy Debate in HK<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/124-path.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/124-path.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>(illustration: the march will begin from Soccer pitches of Victoria Park, Causeway Bay at 3pm on Dec. 4. The terminal point of the march will end at the Government Offices in Central. The march will pass through Causeway Road, Yee Wo Street, Hennessey Road, QueensWay, Queens Road Central, and end at Battery Path.)<br />Propaganda war on the democratic proposal in Hong Kong went on today. In the wake of TV address by Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, pan-democratic camps wages <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/standard-anti-ad.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/standard-anti-ad.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>more intensified attacks against government's proposal, and called on people to protest by more versatile means.<br />Today, the 25 pan-democratic legislators placed joint full page ads on the two English daily newspaper (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/standard-anti-ad.jpg">the Standard</a>, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/scmp-ad.jpg">South China Morning Post</a>) for the first time. Besides, they also advertised on Apple Daily, Mingpao, Economic Daily News, Economic Journal and Am730(the new free paper in HK) <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/legislator-coaltion.jpg">in the full page color</a>. Moreover, the Next Media magazine which is the member of Next Media Group with Apply Daily dispatches <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/next-media-insert.jpg">spread page insert to call for universal suffrage</a> (it seems that they wish people to hold it to protest then). There were six full page ads to call on people to protest in today's Apple Daily (including Christian church and some democratic organizations of China). What a money competition!<br />What should be pointed out that Democratic camps has begun to attempt the new means, such as <a href="http://cd5report.blogspot.com/">webBlog</a> , <a href="http://www.hiradio.net/index.php">Internet live radio and Postcast</a> (<a href="http://www.prhk.org/">People's Radio Hong Kong-香港人民廣播電臺</a>), <a href="http://www.martinoeihome.net/rebuildhk/rpt5_adv3.wmv">video clips</a> (<a href="http://www.martinoeihome.net/rebuildhk/rpt5_adv.wmv">video 2</a>, <a href="http://www.martinoeihome.net/rebuildhk/rebuildhk_05124.wmv">video 3</a>) and<a href="http://www.hiradio.net/images/action/124_hiradio.html"> viral marketing</a>.<br />At the same time, <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/support-ad.jpg">the camps to support government also placed ads</a>, but their voice seems to be weak compared to the opposite side.<br />Interestingly, the organizer of Dec.4th March declaimed that <a href="http://www.rebuildhk.com/">their base website was attacked by hacker</a> (http://www.rebuildhk.com). I guess the attack might come from mainland if it was real. It is interesting to observe the reactions to the march from mainland people. The behavior of hacker may be one of the strong reactions.<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1133443223199769462005-12-01T21:04:00.000+08:002005-12-02T03:16:45.120+08:00Propaganda War in HK Warmed up<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/tsang-address.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/tsang-address.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Today, all but the frontpages of the press in Hong Kong are story about chief Executive, Donald Tsang, gave a 5-minute TV address through the three TV stations (the other three radio stations also broadcasted his speech simultaneously) at the prime time (7:30pm) yesterday (<a href="http://www.singtao.com.hk/yesterday/loc/1201ao12.html">full texts in Chinese</a> , <a href="http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=12&art_id=6887&sid=5715503&con_type=1">media coverage in English</a>).<br />Almost the press all said that Tsang emulated George W. Bush, in order to win the support of his democratic proposal probably from elderly and female citizens in a emotional way (TV viewers are generally considered as more emotional than the readers of press). Some of the major Chinese media said Tsang threatened citizen to support him, otherwise they would never have universal suffrage (<a href="http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20051201&sec_id=4104&art_id=5445178">Apply Daily's story</a>), some of them said the Tsang's first trial of TV address was inexperienced and unsuccessful hereby, some of economic press <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/tsang-speech-ad-cost.jpg">calculated the cost Tsang's address</a> should take (Tsang's address was free), such as Economic Daily News and Economic Journal, some of them seemed to be more neutral, such as Standard's <a href="http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=12&art_id=6887&sid=5715503&con_type=1">Tsang makes TV appeal on reforms</a>, and some of pro-Beijing media said <a href="http://pix-hku.blogspot.com/2005/12/tsangs-address-gets-high-marks.html">Tsang's address gets high marks.</a><br />Besides the TV speech Donald Tsang addressed yesterday,HK government officials, even the <a href="http://www.takungpao.com/news/05/12/02/GW-492278.htm">officials from Beijing</a> also try to influence the possible turn-out of March on Dec. 4th by all means. Oppositely, the democratic camps went on waging their advertising attacks these days. <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/anti-tsang-ad.jpg">An ad purporting to be a mother who has been caring about universal suffrage since 1980s</a> was paralleled to oppose to the TV address by Donald Tsang, and the <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/suffrage-ad.jpg">Democratic Party of HK called for people to join the march on Sunday</a> (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/democratic-ad-hk.jpg">the other one</a>).<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1133373448585935442005-12-01T01:57:00.000+08:002005-12-01T12:23:54.953+08:00Disaster information in China Should be more transparent<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/harbin.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/harbin.jpg" border="0" /></a>Today, I saw an essay on Caijing magazine which is a famous economic journal in China. It said that the information about epidemic situation can not be exported first and then sold back to domestic market (<a href="http://caijing.hexun.com/text.aspx?lm=2551&id=1382147">疫情不能出口轉内銷</a>), which means that epidemic information should not be reported first by foreign media. That actually minces its word to criticize that Chinese government always hide epidemic information, such as SARS, bird flu, and mine coal explosion, etc.<br /></div>The recent big news in China was definitely the incident of water pollution and the discontinuity of water supply in Harbin. When a chemical plant in Jilin Province exploded, Jilin officials didnÂt tell Heilong Jiang province the possible threat to the downstream Songhuajiang in Heilongjiang. And when the Songhuajiang was severely polluted, Heilongjiang especially Harbin city also didnÂt inform other cities including the fast eastern part of Russia, where Songhuajing will pass by. They found the situation of water pollution badly influenced their drinking water system, and just informed their citizen that the city would out of water supply for four days. No any reasonable explanation. Any even lied to citizen that they were repairing the water supply system! When many people knew that they could not have clear water because the water was contaminated by poisonous chemical substance, they were pandemic, and full of disbelief with their officials. They fled to other cities, and rushed to buy bottle water. Until then, the officials in Harbin had to admit what truly happened there.<br />Although the information of natural disaster in China has not been considered as the state secrets any more since last year, the Chinese official especially local officials who are afraid of possible negative impact on their political career still wouldnÂt rather disclose those information timely and fully. However, there have been too many bloody lessons in China because those officials cover and delay the epidemic information. The innocent people are vulnerable; they much depend on the information provided by government. If our government still disregards it, they are indeed burying their people with their hands which should be used to help people.<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1133188841140095212005-11-28T22:40:00.000+08:002005-12-02T01:21:23.036+08:00Stanley Ho Hung-sun is in the limelight in Hong Kong<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000715.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000715.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The 85-year-old Macau casino tycoon, Stanley Ho Hung-sun(<a href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%95%E9%B4%BB%E7%87%8A"><span style="font-family:新宋体;">何鸿燊</span></a>), who has been considered as a staunch partner of Chinese Communist Party, is in the limelight of Hong Kong media.<br />He placed ads on some presses to support government’s democratic proposal on his birthday. He also said that government would need to make concessions only if the turnout for the march exceeded 50,000(<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000713.jpg">related story</a>). That ri<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000714.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000714.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>led democratic camps, which sworn that they will by all means break that number to show HK people’s courage to the world.<br />Later on, he said a certain official of central government of China told him that universal suffrage in HK should be fulfilled step by step, and cited United States with 200-year history fulfills its universal suffrage only in its 180th year. He added the official said that if HK steadily demand the timetable of universal suffrage, what he only said is that it won’t be posterior to 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai’s hit movie in 2003<strong>) </strong>at latest definitely.<br />Almost at the same time, Mr. Ho’s sister placed ads to request Mr. Ho to pay off billions of HK dollars she should get. That’s part of the legend story about Mr. Ho’s family. Mr. Ho dismissed his 79-year-old sister last year from the post of director of his casino empire. Mrs. Ho wouldn’t rather step down, and has been fighting with his brother under the support of her son (<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000716.jpg">another report</a>), who was also dismissed from the top manager in Mr. Ho’s company.<br />Mr. Ho pledged a $500 million fund to our university (the University of Hong Kong) to celebrate its centenary in 2011 several weeks ago. Before that, Mr. Ho together with a woman (I didn’t recognize if she is Mr. Ho’s fourth wife or beloved daughter)showed up quickly in a donation ceremony our department organized (we got 1 million HK dollars donation from Shum Wai Yau, who was once a famous local journalist).<br />It seems that Mr. Ho is a very complex person from the aforementioned matters. What do you think?<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1132851646502697202005-11-24T20:26:00.000+08:002005-11-26T12:59:08.936+08:00Google: Unknown Story -the next media empire?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/google-logo.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/google-logo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I didn't update my blog in the past a couple of days, because I was trying to find more information related to Google and its competitors. I would like to broach a question, will Google become another media empire?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/top-25-media.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/top-25-media.jpg" border="0" /></a>From the chart I extracted from many sources to make, we can see the top-25 media companies in 2003. Bertelsmann which is a German media conglomerate, is the fourth largest media company in the world in terms of revenue. Google's revenue in 2003 should rank 24th. However, actually, many companies in the above chart aren't media companies; they are media related companies, such as Comcast,Cox,Clear Channel, because their primary revenue source are from system operation or outdoor AD(Clear ChanneL). So, we can't count Sony as a pure media company, but it has much investment in the movie, record label industry. Thus, Google's ranking should be more forward.<br />I looked up those companies's financial statements respectively, and got the data in <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/google-revenue.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/google-revenue.jpg" border="0" /></a>2004, but some companies don't provide the number of AD revenue. If we see the revenue figure in 2004, Google will surge to the 19th in the rankings. And again, if we see the temporary statements of these companies in 2005, Google's revenue increased nearly 100% over last year, yet other companies increased slightly, almost at the rate below 10%. Therefore, Google probably would rank 9th replacing Gannett in the 2005's rankings. Furthermore, if we exclude these companies whose assets aren't purely from media (publications and programs) , or just base on their advertising revenues(it's an important indicator for media companies), Google's ranking will go up to 6th in U.S, and 7th in the world in 2005( Bertelsmann). And, if Google can go on keeping such growth rate in the next five years, it will be world's largest media company. It would be another legend that a company establish a media empire only in ten years!<br />How can Google do that? I wouldn't like to talk more about its content strategy, because there have been many reports about that. I just would like to talk about its advertising management strategy,which makes its overwhelmingly major source of revenue (99% of its total revenue). I don't see any graphic ads like Gif banner, flash,etc. on Google, yes, Google only provides text ads to its clients. With the growth of bandwidth, many advertising professionals hyped the so-called rich media advertising in the past, but Google still emphasizes the model of performance based text only advertising. And it did work!<br />Performance based advertising means that advertisers pay only if users click ad, call to them(Google has provides its newest advertising service-click to call. I might elaborate it later), or even buy their goods. Google has been making its pre-eminent search technology to boost its key word advertising, and it bought Applied Semantics who was an online advertising tech company in April 2003, both adsence and adwords have become one of its most important and profitable products since then. Meanwhile, Yahoo bought Overture which is competing search advertising tech company with Google On October 7, 2003, but Yahoo often lays behind with Google in the competitive strategy.<br />Actually, what Google did is almost same with that DoubleClick, who used to be a dominant advertising technology and network company. DouleClick has good AD server technology (plus netgravity. I once used their product and service) ,comprehensive network, and reputable clients. However, DoubleClick doesn't have much unique product, what it did can be easily copied (in China, a local notorious Chinese company has defeated DoublClick in this market). DC has been bought by Hellman & Friedman, LLC in April 2005. Somebody said ADsense is the representation of web2.0 compared with DC. It does make sense, but may be a little bit overstated.<br />However, I would say Google should go on making progress in the innovation both in the aspects of technology and business strategy. I would like to talk about the possible potential threats to Google later. The story will continue......<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1132679294263484822005-11-23T01:08:00.000+08:002005-11-25T18:35:19.156+08:00Google: Unknown Story<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/google.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/google.jpg" border="0" /></a>Google is again in the limelight recently. Google stock price exceeds 400$ per share, and market value hits 120 billion. It has been the fourth largest tech company, and the third largest NASDAQ trade company (only inferior to Microsoft and Intel. IBM is traded in New York Stock Exchange Market) in terms of market value in the stock market. It seems that the image of crash of dot com and tech stocks in 2001 are still fresh, and NASDAQ is still in the swamp, how come Google is at full blast? Will Google lead the advent of so-called web 2.0?<br />I looked up today’s stock prices of both Google and Yahoo. Google’s is 410.9395$ per share, and Yahoo’s is 42.27$ per share. Their market values are <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=GOOG">120.99B$</a> and <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YHOO">59.97B</a><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YHOO">$</a> respectively. Google’s market value has almost amounted to the sum of that of Yahoo and EBay (64.38B$).However, if making a comparison between Google’s traffic, and income, and Yahoo’s traffic and EBay’s income, we can find that Google’s gross profit (1.73B) is lower than that of <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=EBAY">Ebay</a> (2.66B), and Google’s traffic is lower than Yahoo, based on <a href="http://www.alexa.com/">Alexa </a>and <a href="http://www.netratings.com/news.jsp?section=dat_to">Nielson/Netratings</a>. (According to Alexa, Google ranks No.3 under Yahoo and MSN. According to Netratings, Google (190,598,000) also ranks No.3 under yahoo (194,999,000) and Microsoft (236,509,000) in the rankings of world’s most visited websites excluding China. I should redundantly add that Alexa’s method has many limitations, because it depends on the numbers of downloaded program which counts the traffic. Yet many work people can’t install it; its samples are biased. Netratings’ method is much like What AC Nielsen has been doing in the TV rating, which employs many random samples in many cities to fill in diaries or press “people meter”. ).<br />Does it imply the dusk of the old dot com represented by Yahoo, and dawn of the new web2.0 represented by Google? If we analyze the NASDAQ Index in the past years, we found that the peak of NASDAQ Composite Index was <span style="font-family:新宋体;">5048.62 in Oct. 2000</span>, and the nadir of NASDAQ index after peak was 1114.11 in Oct. 2002. Current NASDAQ index is 2241.67. However, how about Google’s price? I think it’s a little bit overvalued, but not too much.<br /><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8E13A6G4.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc">Some Wall Street analysts said Google’s price would hit 500$ a share in the next 12 months</a> . In my view, that's one of the major reasons why Google is blasting off, that is, investment analysts might mislead the investors somehow. If we look up the trade history of major stock prices in NASDAQ, we’ll find Yahoo had achieved the peak trade price at 433.29$ in Dec. 1999 (its highest open price was once over 500$), even after its stock was split three times. If we went back to Jan. 1999, when NASDAQ Index was near to present price, Yahoo price was 354.25$<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/zhongnanhai.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/zhongnanhai.jpg" border="0" /></a> a share. If we considered into the factor of stock split, it could be near to present Google’s stock trade price. Until now, it seems that we are substantiating its rationality of high price. No, don’t forget current Yahoo’s price (42$). Google’s price couldn’t be so high. Google must split its stock, and make its price under 100$ a share. However, based on my observations on Google, it will have much better performance than Yahoo. Next, I’ll talk about them.<br /><div style="text-align: left;">Google has better global competitive strategy than Yahoo in terms of confronting with the censorship of totalitarian countries. We know Yahoo surrendered its client’s (Shi Tao, I ever talk about in the story below) personal information to Chinese government, and led to its client be jailed. I know many people said Google also helped Chinese government to filter some sensitive websites. Actually, I need to applaud what Google did, because it didn’t do that foolishly as Yahoo did. What Google did is to distinguish where users are by technical analysis. For example, if a website is blocked in China, and you visit the website from China; Google won’t show the website to you. However, if you visit the same blocked website in China by means of overseas proxy server, you'll see the website normally. That’s great! Google doesn’t need to offend Chinese government by its smart technology. Another case is Google map (it has been changed to Google Local). We know Taiwan government protested that Google called Taiwan is a province of China in the Map service. Google later on didn’t show any texts. When Beijing government protested, Google just said we had a strategic recap. Google easily survived these crisis, on the other side, that expounds there is a new dispute in the Google Sovereignty. That’s amazing! <span style="font-style: italic;">Continue......</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1132417912350571632005-11-20T00:20:00.000+08:002005-11-20T14:03:00.433+08:00Former top CCP leader,and the motivator of Tiananmen Movement, was commemorated by CCP leaders<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image2.sina.com.cn/dy/c/2005-11-18/U1354P1T1D8338756F21DT20051118195010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://image2.sina.com.cn/dy/c/2005-11-18/U1354P1T1D8338756F21DT20051118195010.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The time has spanned the 12am; now it's Nov.20. I have to talk about a person relating to today. It is also the 90th birthday of the former CCP(Chinese Communist Party) General Secretary (1981-1987), and also the his death in April 15, 1989 directly led to the occurrence of Tiananmen Movement then (please see the second pix below, which was taken during the Tiananmen Movement in 1989. Citizens and students in Beijing went to Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu Yaobang's latest death spontaneously).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/huyaobang-1989.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/huyaobang-1989.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I'd like to talk about him, because he made me sense the true society first. Hu Yaobang died on April 15,1989, and CCTV (the only nationwide official TV station in China) broadcasted the obituary. I was in the sixth grade in the elementary school then. I talked to my classmates about his death news. I remembered I said, "the person is a good man, and I almost cry out when I watched the TV news of his death". I don't know why. I was a kid then indeed. However, since then, I knew a lot of things, and I want to know a lot of things, even my personality changed a lot.<br />The second reason why I'd like to talk about him is because Hu Yaobang was involved in the journalism reform in China from 1978 to 1987.<br />I once interviewed an elder advertising professional of China in 1998. I clearly remembered that he said it should owe to Hu Yaobang that advertising industry in China could be resumed after "Cultural Revolution"(Hu was the Propaganda Minister then, which took charge of both media and advertising industry). I also once interviewed a famous liberal Chinese journalist a month ago. He said it should owe to Hu Yaobang that China Youth Daily could make good news all the time, and the Chinese people especially college students then could come alive af<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/poetry-huyaobang1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/400/poetry-huyaobang1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>ter the collapse of "Gang of Four" .<br />I looked up the internet in China, to figure out what Chinese netizens think about Hu Yaobang. As of one hour ago, there were 4761 persons who posted comments in Sina.com on the reports that China commemorated Hu Yaobang's 90th anniversary of birth. Overwhelmingly majority of the comments were to praise Hu Yaobang's feat. Interestingly, Many netizens knew it was Hu Jintao who decided to commemorate Hu Yaobang, so many posts showed that they respect Hu Jintao as Hu Yaobang. A snap pic (the texts in the box) on the right expounds both Hu Jintao and Hu Yaobang are the pillars of China's future. Maybe, president Hu has partly achieved the original goal to improve his awful image in the past years through this controversial event with his peers.<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1132321720014837722005-11-18T21:48:00.000+08:002005-11-21T11:50:32.523+08:00The follow-up story about crazy ads on Nov.16<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.takungpao.com/news/images/05/11/17/gw-91.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.takungpao.com/news/images/05/11/17/gw-91.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I was too tired yesterday, and I didn’t find the ads on Sun, TakungPao, so I didn’t post anything. I tried to find the the ads in the newspaper our department doesn't have in the HKU library, but unfortunately, they don’t have those paper, and even fewer than our department.<br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;">First of all, I explain the incident from the cost point of view. The man who is called Gu Mingjun (see the man in the pix), cost 1.1 million (over 140 thousand U.S dollars) to place ads in at least 15 Chinese newspapers in HK on Nov.16 (source: <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000665.jpg">HK Economic Daily News</a>). That is called roadblock strategy in the advertising campaign. The newspapers where the full page ads were placed in the front page included MingPao (cost 176,000 HK$, please refer to its rate card at:<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mingpaonews.com/adbanner/ratecard/mingpao/index.htm">http://www.mingpaonews.com/adbanner/ratecard/mingpao/index.htm</a></div> </div> ), SingTao (145,000 HK$, please refer to its rate card at: <a href="http://www.singtao.com/ratecard/html/singtao.htm">http://www.singtao.com/ratecard/html/singtao.htm</a>), am730 (free paper, its rate card doesn’t specify the price of full page B/W ads in the front page, but it mentions the B/W full page ROP ads, and the 4 color full page ads in the front page. So I guess it is 100,000 HK$ or so. Source: <a href="http://www.am730.com.hk/ratecard.asp">http://www.am730.com.hk/ratecard.asp</a> ), Economic Journal <span style="font-family:新宋体;">(信報)</span>(it doesn’t have website, so I didn’t find its rate card). Excluding some tabloids and free newspaper which ads price are relatively low, ads in the five main stream broadsheets, such as MingPao, Oriental (99,800 HK$), Apple Daily (cost 115,000 HK$, source: <a href="http://www.appledailyadvertising.com/crm/rate_eng.htm">http://www.appledailyadvertising.com/crm/rate_eng.htm</a><br />), Sun (60,000 HK$), SingTao, cost the man nearly 600,000 HK$, accounts for approximately 54% of its total budget.<br />Secondly, everybody may ask the same question: why did the man do that? According to the accounts of newspaper in HK yesterday, the man decided to place ads to support government, because he was angry that the chairman of Next Media, and a legislator of Democratic Party fabricated a 78-year-old man who placed ads to appeal to universal suffrage in the Apply <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000659.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000659.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Daily(see the color ad on the left). The next day after he placed ads, he went to police station and complaining service of Legco to report that the legislator fabricated news(ads) (the pixs related to the stroy can be seen at <a href="http://pix-hku.blogspot.com/">my another blog</a>).<br />I used to be an advertising professional, so I clearly know advertising campaign should have a specific objective first, and the advertising effect depends on that objective you specify (that's what DAGMAR theory says). And then, you should know your target audience you want to appeal to. And then, you choose the appropriate media based on the relevant research (such as your target's reading habit, what're their favorite newspapers, etc). However, the man's ads cost so much money, and were placed on all the Chinese media. What I only can say is he must be crazy. Or, his money is too much, and he wants to throw off by meas of "donating" to media. Next, I give some clues from media's accounts.<br /><div style="text-align: left;">Thirdly, we might ask another question, was it worthy of doing that? In other words, what was his true motive to do that? Some media said that he has been planning to privatize his two public companies, so he might just want to attract the attention of whole society, especially both HK government and Beijing government.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000656.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000656.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>At last, we also want to ask what HK wants to embrace after the having freedom and run of law with HK's characteristic. If people just have freedom, that may be what the savage primitive society was like. If people just have run of law, that may be what the feudal society was like. Of course, If people just have the democracy at the low level, that may also be what the under-developed society was like, such as ancient Roma, and Athens. Democracy is the daily life style, not the slogan, or show arts. The ads war in HK implied politicians in the two camps including some so-called democrats are exploiting the will of general public. The barriers of full democratization in HK are not only from Beijing, but from their own elites in HK.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1132153761799850802005-11-16T23:09:00.000+08:002005-11-18T22:24:58.893+08:00The biggest news in HK today<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000667.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 204px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000667.jpg" border="0" height="330" /></a><br />Today, I think the biggest news in HK is that a businessman placed <em>full page </em>advertisements in almost all the Chinese newspapers, including Apply Daily and free newspapers in HK. The guts of ads are to call on HK residents to support the proposal of democratic reform by government, as apposed to the ads placed in Apple Daily several days ago. I guess those ads will at least cost 1 million HK dollars. How come a man cost so much money just in order to express the will to support government? This is a weird thing!<br />Everybody says that there is freedom and rule of law, but no democracy in HK. I would also say t<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000662.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000662.jpg" border="0" /></a>he freedom in HK is HK style freedom. Media in HK are strongly commercially motivated, and they usually lose the objective and neutral position because of the temptation of commercial interests, although the world should admit that HK somehow still has press freedom to some extent, or at certain level. Advertising has been considered as the part of press freedom and freedom of expression. In America, advertising is beloved to be the commercial speech, which is protected by First Amendment, only if ads violate the interests of consumers, can FCC or the justice department regulate it. We have seen this kind of <em>sufficient </em>business-driven press freedom, as well as another kind of insufficient independent and objective press freedom in HK. These days, a lot of persons and organizations expressed the will opposing to government’s proposal, appealed to the dual universal suffrage in 2007 and 2008, and summoned HK residents to demonstrate on the street on December 4 by means of advertising.<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000679.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 133px; height: 220px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000679.jpg" border="0" height="255" /></a><br />Initially, the chairman of Next media, which runs the Apply Daily, Mr. Li Zhiying called for people to oppose to government’s proposal, and claimed that he would pay for half of the ads if somebody placed ads to express the will in the media (actually, 50% discount of rate card. It's a little higher than the 30% discount which is givent to their agencies). He claimed that the men who give signature in the ads to support democracy just need to pay 200 HK$ (please see the ads below). The Democratic Party cost 300,000 HK dollars to place ads in the media after an anonymous so-called HK 78-year-old man placed an ad, expressing the strong will to embrace universal suffrage in 2007 and 2008.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000657.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000657.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1132074263664079612005-11-16T00:13:00.000+08:002005-11-19T02:43:38.793+08:00I was upset and frustrated by somebodyI watched a documentary about 9/11 review on National Geographic Channel tonight (half an hour ago). I was still shocked by the images even if I have watched them as soon as the incident happened. A guy who lives in the same floor with me said he was excited when he heard the news, and the reason why he sit along just in order to watch the Twin Tower collapse again. When he didn't see the end of the documentary, he said angrily, "damn it, how come it (Twin Tower) doesn't collapse yet!" He is a PHD candidate from mainland China. How come Hong Kong government wastes taxpayer's money to support such cold bloody guy!<br />I have several classmates from mainland. When they heard something critical of China or Chinese government by the foreign students, they aren't happy very much. What they believe is that even if China isn't good enough, but we Chinese can't criticize our own leaders or motherland. What a herd of lost students!<br />In HK, I got to know a lot of people, who have different backgrounds in terms of culture, knowledge, religion, and ideology. I have s strong sense. Some people, especially ones from mainland China, are deeply influenced by the communism ideology. But they may also talk about the professional ethics. I think they have been contaminated from the bottom of heart, and won't purify themselves. We should respect each other, even if he is a radical communist. That is very important. However, there is somebody who has some power; they can criticize others who have a different faith. I'm very upset and frustrated! When I was a teacher in the university, I told my students they can join in Communist Party as long as they truly believe in it, but not being motivated by some incentives.<br />HK especially HKU is a very free place compared with mainland China, that's what I mostly cherish. However, HK can't be HK any more, if anybody can be somebody, disregarding if he respects the truth, and human conscience.<br />In the campus, we only need to respect the facts, truth and morality in the objective way. You can hate George W. Bush, or Hu JinTao, whomever, that's your choice. You need, and have to be cautious about if you breach the bottom line. Unfortunately, many people breach it.<br />I love HK, but I disdain some rats in HK!<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1131819154163531672005-11-13T01:57:00.000+08:002005-11-19T02:49:06.890+08:00Hearing about Yahoo case organized by HK Legco<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1000518.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000518.jpg" border="0" /></a>A journalist named ShiTao (師濤) in mainland China was sentenced to 10 year prison because he leaked some information about the 15th anniversary of June 4 to an overseas organization. The accusation was leaking state secretes. In this case, the controversy was that Yahoo HK disclosed his personal information to PRC government, and then, Chinese government got him, and arrested him.<br />A legislator in HK called Emily Lau (劉慧卿-the last pix) and other legislator, such as Albert Cheung (鄭經翰) who are the members of pan-democratic faction organized a hearing for this case. They claimed that Yahoo HK might <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1000510.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000510.jpg" border="0" /></a>violate the privacy law of HK, so they invited the commissioner of privacy in HK to testify.<br />I felt very disappointed with the hearing. Everybody just attended the meeting for the meeting; nothing constructive. Most important, Shi Tao is still in jail, furthermore, has to be there for 10 years.<br />Yahoo HK didn't appear, and just a written statement said the case was nothing to do with Yahoo HK; it was what Yahoo China did.<br />The chairman of FCC (Foreign Correspondent Club) in HK, Ilaria Maria Sala, was present, but said few and something meaningless.<br />I think the reason why such hearing was meaningless is because HK Legco is still a flower vase, in other words, they can't determine anything in HK yet. As Albert Cheung said we weren't American congress, so Yahoo HK dared be absent.<br />Interestingly enough, the founder of DAB, <span class="Copyright">Tsang Yok Sing</span> (曾鈺成-the third pix), who has been the staunch pro-Beijing politician in HK sit in all along. Why could he be interested in such meeting?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1000520.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000520.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1000522.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000522.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Some references about ShiTao-Yahoo Case<br /></span>The verdict of ShiTao can be downloaded at <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/wp-content/ShiTao_verdict_01.pdf">Berkman Center at Harvard Law School</a>.<br />A open letter to the Yahoo founder Jerry Yang by Liu Xiaobo, full Chinese version can be seen here: http://www.observechina.net/info/artshow.asp?ID=36785 . Here is an English version of open letter in the New York Times at: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/24letter.pdf<br />The same story was covered by other presses at:<br /><a href="http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/10/24/business/yahoo.php">IHT</a><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701135.html">Washington Post</a><br />Comments of users http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/gelman/archives/003388.shtml<br />A website against Yahoo because of the incident at: http://www.booyahoo.blogspot.com<div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1131649067855055792005-11-11T02:57:00.000+08:002005-11-13T03:30:33.340+08:00Marry Meeker gave a speech in China<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1000564.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000564.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/9/8646/640/P1000560.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/9/8646/320/P1000560.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />A Speech about internet trend in China was given by Marry Meeker, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, in China and Hong Kong simultaneously.<br />The picture was blur, because she was in Shantou,South China, and we saw her speech through the video conference system.<br />She said what she most bet on is mobile internet. Although she is the most influential investment analyst on internet in Wall Street, she seems to assume everything. What I mean isn't to blame her. Technology is fast changing, so she couldn't assert anything uncertain.<br />I prepared some questions about how ICT influences the society initially, but I lost the interest and courage to ask, because she was in China.<br />Her presentation can be downloaded at the <a href="http://www.ecom-icom.hku.hk/seminar/MaryMeeker/Archive/Slides/STU110405.pdf">website of E-commerce Institute at HKU</a>. <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6526953.post-1131648095672293492005-11-11T02:41:00.000+08:002005-11-13T03:35:21.250+08:00the last governor of HK is visiting HK<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/9/8646/640/P1000610.jpg"><img style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/9/8646/320/P1000610.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/1600/P1000627.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4840/300/320/P1000627.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />the last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten gave speech at HKU.<br />Actually, I didn't attend his speech, because of a class. So, the picture was taken by my friend. However, interestingly enough, Patten went to our department to be interviewed by the Chief Editor of Standard after his public speech, and said hello to us.<br />I ever asked my friend what his speech was about. I had a feeling. When everything was related to money, everything would be changed. So did Patten. Patten talked a lot, but he didn't dare criticize the government of both HK and China. Is that gentle reason? I don't think so. We know Mr Patten was ever a radical politician who advocated the so-called true democracy in HK. But now, he is the chancellor of Oxford, which needs donations. And, most important, just as he sold his autographed book in the auditorium, he wants to do business with Chinese making use of his special identity.<a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">communication review by Charles Feng</div>Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02576076804735792918noreply@blogger.com0