19 Jan 2005

China Digital News (CDN)
Qiao Xiang, Berkeley China Internet Project, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Self-description: "[...] a collaborative news weblog about emerging information and communication technologies and their impact on Chinese society. Our mission is to advance the understanding of the ongoing information revolution in China by serving as a news aggregator, public forum and on-line resource center.' [Mission statement 2.0, Sep 2003]."
Supplied note: "A very up-to-date blog run by human rights activist Qiao Xiang. Formerly called 'China NetXing' (China Net Crossing) the latest news are mentioned or discussed in very short notes and the link to the original source is given. A simple 'Search' and a 'Browse by Category' function are available, as well as a subscription for daily email news. All postings are archived (starting in September 2003), however, the original documents cited are not archived. A Chinese version is in Beta mode (http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/cn/). - hl."
Site contents: (1) [News]; (2) Editor's Pick; (3) Search Contents; (4) Browse by Category; (5) Subscription; (6) Recent Comments; (7) About China Digital News; (8) Blog Roll; (9) Resources; (10) Archives; (11) Recent TrackBacks.
URL http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/
Link reported by: Nico Volland, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany and by Michel Hockx, SOAS, London, UK; forwarded by Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher--at--let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000