mannblogs.com Blog » Great Firewall http://mannblogs.com/manninchina Capturing my time in Beijing, China Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:26:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 1 February – youtube still accessible in China http://mannblogs.com/manninchina/2008/01/31/1-february-youtube-still-accessible-in-china/ http://mannblogs.com/manninchina/2008/01/31/1-february-youtube-still-accessible-in-china/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:55:07 +0000 Administrator http://mannblogs.com/manninchina/2008/01/31/1-february-youtube-still-accessible-in-china/ Back to Beijing this evening and thought I would give youtube a try, still accessible.

As of 31 January, 2008 – any web video site that is not either State owned or State controlled was not going to be allowed to operate. Youtube (owned by Google) is neither. Suspect there are/will be some loop holes, but a bit surprised youtube.com isn’t actually blocked yet (has been before).

So, because it’s still open, I can share this with you … a video I saw a few days ago at a kick off meeting for a large IT project … very funny and very similar to things I face daily.

Youtube link embedding not work now, so here’s the link…

First IT Professional 

]]> http://mannblogs.com/manninchina/2008/01/31/1-february-youtube-still-accessible-in-china/feed/ 0 I moved and it feels good http://mannblogs.com/manninchina/2007/08/12/i-moved-and-it-feels-good/ http://mannblogs.com/manninchina/2007/08/12/i-moved-and-it-feels-good/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:58:56 +0000 Administrator http://mannblogs.com/manninchina/2007/08/12/i-moved-and-it-feels-good/ I’m over on yahoo hosting now (went with mannblogs.com as master domain). If this somehow becomes non-functional, I’m not sure what I’ll do next.

I’m using google reader to view blogs (even ones that aren’t blocked in China). The only thing I don’t like is I can’t comment via google reader. So, for those of you who have blogs that are blocked here (it is now virtually all that are hosted with the service providers … wordpress, blogger, typead, etc…), I can’t comment on your blogs.

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