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August 17, 2005

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Daily linklets 17th August

Feedster have a monthly Top 500 blogs, and somehow yours truly came in at number 408. Flattered but undeserved. Right, on with the show...

Harry Hutton: lucky bastard. Exploiting Communists and loving it.
Stocks or real estate for China's middle class? Given the performance of the stock market, I'd say the latter.
2bangkok has scans of a WW2 Japanese propaganda booklet. Translation of the Japanese text (via Mutantfrog).
A university in Shanghai is offering China's first course in homosexual studies. Is there a course in hetrosexual studies? (15:36) Danwei notes the Government is saying its OK to be gay.
Thailand has authorised gay and transsexual soldiers. The streets of Phuket are safe again.
Marmot's theory on the Korean blog block which Kevin suspects may have been lifted.
Look out Japan, here comes Wal-Mart.
China continues to waste huge sums of money on its space program.
What is piracy to Microsoft?
The State Development and Reform Commission is one of China's top econommic bodies. Victor Shih notes an explicit critique of the PBoC and Finance Ministry on the Commission's website. It's semi-open bureaucratic warfare. Meanwhile Big Yuan suggest the PBoC governor may be groomed for bigger things in the CCP. Survived SARS has more on the PBoC attack by the NDRC.
John is not a waijiao.
The myth-making of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung.
More on the H5N1 virus.
Great quotes on journalism in China.
At least the PBoC thinks about housing price bubbles...unlike a certain Fed Chairman.
Potentially Taiwan's first iPod crime.
(15:40) Brad de Long reviews a book on Economic Change in China c. 1800-1950.
Want a street named after you? Why not try hating Hong Kong, destroying the Summer Palace and force the legalisation of opium.
A mobile phone plant. And Will says if mobiles attract lightning, everyone in China would cook.

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Comments:

Congratulations Simon! Perhaps you may upgrade your “Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask” to “How to be the Feedster 500”.

posted by: Letters from China on 08.17.05 at 02:32 PM [permalink]

Yes, congratulations for making it to #408, great work. You put a lot of hard work and thought into this blog because it shows on as daily basis. Therfore, it's nice to see that persistence recognised.

Apart from Simonworld, I noticed Wangjianshuos (sp?) blog, Winds of Change and something called The China Stock Blog to be the only China-related sites in the top 500.

It's nice to see one of our own in the top 500. Again, well done. Throughly deserved.

posted by: Martyn on 08.17.05 at 08:35 PM [permalink]

Thanks. I'm flattered to be one of the few "China" ones to make it, but really such a list should also contain Peking Duck and ESWN at a minimum, not to mention Danwei.

posted by: Simon on 08.18.05 at 09:33 AM [permalink]

To be honest, I didn't quite understand how the system of links was really calculated.

However, we can all whinge about who and what should have been included but the fact is, they weren't.....for whatever reason and Simonworld was.

It's just nice to see one of our own blogs up there with the likes of Daily Kos and Malkin.

Great stuff and, as I said, totally deserved.

posted by: Martyn on 08.18.05 at 11:06 AM [permalink]