There are some reviews of Eric Clapton’s Shanghai concert up on his web site. The set lists of the concerts in other countries make interesting reading. There’s only two place in which Cocaine was not performed: China and Singapore. Think about it.

In response to my comments on the CER EVD article there’s a new post on the CER IT blog and a corresponding one on Gareth’s personal site in which he defends the original post. Good for him. He also misinterprets what I wrote. In the spirit of a blogging conversation I respond below.

The IT News blog from the China Economic Review has an entry about EVD. The entry is (at best) poorly researched. I’d expect a little more quality control from CER.

Two stories of World Cup fever in Beijing.

Google has a new function that lets you compare search and news results for keywords. Above is an image for the trends for Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. It is interesting to note the following:

China Unicom is launching a mobile email service called Redberry. 

The website for Xiang Yang Market has been closed down by the powers that be. It seems it was a fake. A fake website for a market selling fakes… Oh, the irony.

Dilbert on manufacturing overseas

Prospect has an article by Mark Kitto, founder of “that’s shanghai”, telling how he was squished by the powers that be.