• 10 seriously annoying default configurations (Rick Vanover shares some especially frustrating and idiotic ones) http://tinyurl.com/ce4esb #
• [Trade, Exports] China becomes world’s largest tea producer (China produced 1.24 million tons of tea last year) http://tinyurl.com/cwl2b9 #
• [Business, World Economy] How executives view globalization (from McKinsey’s “What Matters: Globalization”) http://tinyurl.com/c3wtwn #
• [China, Internet] Baidu’s Internal Monitoring and Censorship Document Leaked: Part III http://tinyurl.com/cb68p9 #
• [China, Internet] Baidu’s Internal Monitoring and Censorship Document Leaked: Part II http://tinyurl.com/cws4ah #
• [China, Internet] Baidu’s Internal Monitoring and Censorship Document Leaked: Part I http://tinyurl.com/d8lhwc #
• Since I’ve handed in my thesis, I can finally go back to playing Bass! Come check it out: May 3rd (Sunday), 54 Hengshan Road, from 2 to 6PM #
• [Typography] Univers Revolved (Characters designed be read in both left-to-right and right-to-left) http://www.cpluv.com/www/feeditem/7586 #
• [China, Shanghai] The World Expo Theme Song: ?? (lots of dancing that doesn’t quite match the tempo of the music) http://tinyurl.com/d6lcb8 #
• [China] China “Come Out! Come Out!”: This year marks the 20th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led .. http://tinyurl.com/cleynx #
• [Technology] China “Come Out! Come Out!”: This year marks the 20th anniversary of the nationwide, st.. http://tinyurl.com/cleynx #
• http://twitpic.com/4bnrk – Public Health in China: condoms machine #
• http://twitpic.com/4bmpu – Mao suits at Starbucks: Shanghai, May 1st 2009 #
• [#China, #News] Database to track children (DNA database to trace missing children,tackle people trafficking) http://tinyurl.com/cyomue #
• [#News, #China] PMI of manufacturing sector rises for 5th straight month (Index reached 53.5% in April) http://tinyurl.com/d393lm #
• [#China] Spitting now incurs heavy fine in Shanghai (Rules enforced ban spitting and other anti-social behaviors) http://tinyurl.com/crra9z #
• [#China] Shanghai may offer more car plates to spur spending (Environment to take the toll of economic stimulus) http://tinyurl.com/cdkczs #
• [#Media, #Advertising] Online Video: Why Advertisers Have It All Wrong (from “Advertising Age”) http://tinyurl.com/c54uum #
• [#design] DD4D: Data Design for Decisions (Conference for intermediaries between data, knowledge and empowerment) http://tinyurl.com/dm9hwa #
• [#Business, #Design] Is Design Too Important To Be Left Only To Designers? (from BusinessWeek, by Bruce Nussbaum) http://tinyurl.com/cvb7wa #
• [Business, Design, Visualization] Can Computers Analyze Data? (from Visual Business Intelligence, by Bryan Pierce) http://tinyurl.com/db3yxb #
• [Technology] NES gamepad mouse is the most amazing piece of industrial design in the history of huma.. http://tinyurl.com/d7ds46 #
• [China] China says visa restrictions groundless http://tinyurl.com/cfzqn9 #
• [Interaction Design] Is Your Country Involved in Open Source?: Red Hat, an open source leade.. http://tinyurl.com/da2e7p #
• [Technology] Letter: Read the Terms of the Google Book Settlement Agreement (from “BusinessWeek”, by Spencer Ante) http://tinyurl.com/cxtrs7 #
• [News, Technology, China] Demystifying Chinese hackers (from “Imagethief” by will Moss) http://tinyurl.com/camwut #
• [News, China] Shanghai launches virus protection system (Emergency measures similar to the 2003 SARS outbreak) http://tinyurl.com/d35xb7 #
• China’s new rule on releasing financial information by foreign agencies (Aim to “enhance” service and management) http://tinyurl.com/cfnrz8 #
• Reading “Quiet Leadership”: support the other person to come up with their own answer. #
• Reading: “At Century 21, Social Media Is the New TV” from Advertising Age, by Andrew Hampp (http://tinyurl.com/cbqfyq) #
• Reading: “Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?” from Cooper Journal, by Tim McCoy (http://tinyurl.com/dbu58o) #
• China issues regulation punishing statistical fouls (Officials who forge/cover up data in statistics, beware!) http://tinyurl.com/cqhg4g #
• [Interaction Design, Social Networkd] The Future of the Social Web: In Five Eras http://tinyurl.com/cbcmqo #
• [China] Classic tale: Peddler joins PhD program: It could be the plot of a Hollywood movie: A laid-off fa.. http://tinyurl.com/dly6jv #
• Operation “Hand in Thesis” is completed: mission accomplished! #
• [Technology] Classic tale: Peddler joins PhD program: It could be the plot of a Hollywood movie: A l.. http://tinyurl.com/dly6jv #
• [Technology] Keepin’ it real fake, part CCIII: New York Times undercover edition on mobile phones in China http://tinyurl.com/dyjges #
• [China] Who’s the baddest? (Who are more likely to cause problems because of unemployment in China?) http://tinyurl.com/czkgfa #
• [Technology] Microsoft, Apple, and Pink: A History Lesson (from BusinessWeek’s Tech Beat, by Stephen Wildstrom) http://tinyurl.com/d6cfkp #
• [Quality Assurance, China] Phone failures (54% of cell phones in Shanghai market failed quality inspections) http://tinyurl.com/cc9qkc #
• Design as part of Research and Development? (Or is it mostly about production and commercialization of products?) http://tinyurl.com/cwyefy #
• [Graphic Design, Visualization] How Long Will the World’s Natural Resources Last? (Graphic from “New Scientist”) http://tinyurl.com/d6ps83 #
• Design as part of R #
• [Technology] Artificial intelligence’s next frontier: Jeopardy (IBM’s “Watson” designed to play against humans) http://tinyurl.com/dztpg6 #
• [Technology] Swine Flu: What You Need to Know (from WIRED magazine) http://tinyurl.com/cnttqk #
• [Technology] Paper Flexpeaker could change the way you perceive posters (from “Engadget” by Tim Stevens) http://tinyurl.com/cv4y56 #
• [China, World News] Chinese President Hu calls for stepped-up efforts to prevent swine flu http://tinyurl.com/cry5c2 #
• [Interaction Design] Painting a song in the air (Make wall paintings, as if your were waving a conductor’s baton) http://tinyurl.com/c5qd3x #
• Autodesk Launches Online Site for AutoCAD Users to Interact and Learn from Each Other – http://tinyurl.com/d89ryy #
• Living in China: Shanghai’s AIDS cases increase fivefold since 2005 – http://tinyurl.com/dj6l9n #
• [Interaction Design] Web App Summit: Delivering Happiness (from “Functioning Form: Interface Design” by LukeW) http://tinyurl.com/dlrexg #
• [Interaction, User Experience] Walter Gropius vs. Jesse James Garrett (from “Wildly Appropriate”, by Dan Klyn) http://tinyurl.com/c7p8fo #
• [Interaction Design] User Research for Personas and Other Audience Models (from Steve Baty, for UXmatters) http://tinyurl.com/d8md2y #
• [Design, Business] Call for Nominations: Icograda Executive Board 2009-2011 http://tinyurl.com/de53l3 #
• [Architecture] 3D City: After Effects Tutorial (Movie by Mattex Films HD, creating textures as well as the scene) http://tinyurl.com/cj73ek #
• [Architecture] Download Urban Modelling: Algorithms, Calibrations, Predictions (Introducing to simulation models) http://tinyurl.com/clml69 #
• Rives’s “3-minute story of mixed emoticons” at TED – http://tinyurl.com/d9u24y #
• Intellectual Property: China’s supreme court publishes IP rights protection guidelines – http://tinyurl.com/c228ro #
• Twitter Daily Updates for 2009-04-27 – http://tinyurl.com/dzbn37 #
• [Technology] Video: La Machine à Ecrire le Temps writes time, mesmerizes brains:
  There are horologe.. http://tinyurl.com/cdbpxe #
• [China] Around Shanghai: Eileen Chang’s school, JG Ballard’s home, and the best xiaolongbao in Shanghai: .. http://tinyurl.com/cg2cs5 #
• [Technology] A crash course in emerging technologies:

  The Financial Times has published a feature .. http://tinyurl.com/c3whf4 #

• [Interaction Design] Twitter’s Creative Director on Why He Left Google: I’m thankful for the.. http://tinyurl.com/cboah9 #
• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26 – http://tinyurl.com/csb7op #
• Twitter Daily Updates for 2009-04-26 – http://tinyurl.com/cayfra #
• Going offline: 18,000 words thesis to hand in tomorrow, so I better focus! #
• Autodesk Brings Historic Designs to Life in New Discovery Channel Series “Doing DaVinci” – http://tinyurl.com/cl8pnz #
• 2,000 words to go: “eye of the tiger, it’s the cream of the fight” #
• Just posted: “Autodesk’s Support to the User Experience Design Community in China” (http://tinyurl.com/ddbchh) #
• [China] 4G research: SHANGHAI Research Center for Wireless Communications has started to cooperate with N.. http://tinyurl.com/c9gjrw #
• [Interaction Design] Microsoft profits sink for the first time in 23 years:
  In a not totall.. http://tinyurl.com/d7t9ru #
• 4,000 words to write in the final sprint: “Go, Rocky!” #
• [Technology] 4G research: SHANGHAI Research Center for Wireless Communications has started to cooper.. http://tinyurl.com/c9gjrw #
• [Technology] Alading: Baidu Wants Your Structured Data: Baidu has launched its Alading platform, whi.. http://tinyurl.com/cydg2n #
• [Interaction Design] What happens when you criticize a holy grail:
  (Picture taken from Azum.. http://tinyurl.com/dg77db #
• Thanks everybody for all the birthday wishes! #
• [China] IT firm used pirate MS programs: A Shanghai IT company was ordered to pay 400,000 yuan (US$58,500.. http://tinyurl.com/cp6akq #
• [Interaction Design] I ? wireframes: Vana Jurcic has put together a blog with examples of in.. http://tinyurl.com/ce2zd8 #
• [China] Demand for Chinese in U.S. to anglicize names sparks outrage: Texas State Representative Betty Br.. http://tinyurl.com/dlwuhz #
• [China] Stores join list of counterfeits: COUNTERFEIT goods have long been a problem faced by local watch.. http://tinyurl.com/cbms7j #
• [Graphic Design, Visual Thinking] “Good” visual examples to get you thinking (from GOOD magazine) http://tinyurl.com/c4gvbr #
• [Interaction Design] Roy Rosenzweig fellowship for innovation in digital history: (Roy Rosen.. http://tinyurl.com/cbug3l #
• [Technology] Liu Jianqiang, Zhang Ping, Wang Lixiong: On the Impact of New Media: In a roundtable di.. http://tinyurl.com/c4p43d #
• [China] Homemade 3G handset standards enter new growth era: BEIJING,April 21– In the early January of th.. http://tinyurl.com/dzjhwq #
• [Interaction Design] Integration of the natural and computational worlds:
  Freshly updated s.. http://tinyurl.com/cxqnyv #
• http://designative.info/ #
• [Technology, MIT] Can Technology Save the Economy? (Why are economists and innovation experts so skeptical?) http://tinyurl.com/cn25a9 #
• [China, World News] For China’s New Left, Old Values (Emerging Movement Views State Power as Remedy Inequalities) http://tinyurl.com/dxuhcl #
• [Graphic Design] Visual Representation of Tabular Information: Fixing the Uncommunicative Table (from FlowingData) http://tinyurl.com/cnqpof #
• [Design, Business] Change by Design (In his upcoming book Tim Brown digress how innovations come from examination) http://tinyurl.com/dhf2jr #
• [Interaction Design] Twitter-brain interface offers terrifying vision of the future:
  We’ll .. http://tinyurl.com/d9dyts #
• [China] 5 nuclear plants in pipeline: China will start constructing five nuclear power plants (NPPs) this.. http://tinyurl.com/d9dk7v #
• [Technology] Twitter-brain interface offers terrifying vision of the future:
  We’ll be honest, we’re.. http://tinyurl.com/d9dyts #
• [Interaction Design] The New Normal: De-Globalize, Re-Localize: Everyone is struggling to de.. http://tinyurl.com/daw4mc #
• [Interaction Design] When we advocate for the user, we are simultaneously advocating for our.. http://tinyurl.com/dlcxrk #
• [China] Lecture series: THE Chinese Welfare Institute will hold 14 free lectures inviting scholars and te.. http://tinyurl.com/dycwhz #
• [Technology] Lecture series: THE Chinese Welfare Institute will hold 14 free lectures inviting schol.. http://tinyurl.com/dycwhz #
• [Interaction Design] Only the Brave:
  The latest from Legs, the NYC-based crew who created P.. http://tinyurl.com/dy6scy #

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