Japanese pop star Ayumi tomorrow my neighbor

Ayumi Hamasaki

Last night I reported that Jacky Cheung was performing at the other side of the street at Shanghai Stadium. Now, I had already noted that the Japanese Ayumi Hamasaki will be in action at the same location tomorrow.
But when I came out this afternoon to enjoy the warm weather a bit, the crowds were - still, again, already? - milling around. I just discovered that Jacky Cheung is again here this evening. Still, it only starts at 7:30 PM, but thousands of people make it into a day-long outing.
The tickets are costing an arm and a leg. They start with 1,580 Rmb and go down to 120, but that might be for rather poor seats.

Japanese beats again English, Chinese on Technorati

The debate on Technorati is an old one on this blog and perhaps by now for the regular readers a boring one. Technorati is one of the leading search engines for English language blogs. But it also has international ambitions and comes up with comparisons that seem to have very little in common with reality.
Today it is Global Voices that has been put on a wrong leg as it believes Technorati statistics on what language is spoken on the internet. Japan wins, followed by English and then Chinese.
What it proves is that Technorati has a very good team in Japan that helps to register weblogs at the Technorati-server, while it does a poor job in China. To be noted you have to ping the Technorati-server. In China very few people see the need of pinging a service they have never heard off. It of course does not help the technorati-IP address is blocked in China.
Well, this might come back more often.

Baidu Japan blocked

The new Japanese service of China's largest search engine Baidu, got blocked, discovered Yee today. We already started the count-down at the end of March as we discovered large amounts of soft porn on this new service. You can get to the porn from China when you use a proxy like here, a test we did only for scientific reasons.

Take that

Imagethief gives an overview of the down to earth anti-Japanese and racist feelings on the Chinese internet. The the QQ penguin aims at a Japanese pig.