Catshanghai

Property agents in Shanghai have come up with a novel way of giving house buyers important information about the home they intend to buy. Ask them about neighbourhood construction plans for malls, motorways and high rise appartments and they may take you to the third floor of the Urban Planning Museum in People’s Square. There [...]

If Twitter and Dreamhost can have cats on their website then so can I.
Yes, we have a new resident in our house. He is a young spunky cat that we have named Chog, short for Chinese mog. Do you get it? He had been living on the landing outside Jenny’s shop for a few [...]

Recently I have been thinking quite a lot about this blogging lark without writing very much. I originally setup Catshanghai to write about technology, films, music, books and everyday life from my expatriate Shanghai perspective. More and more I am writing about general technology issues that have little to do with Shanghai so they don’t [...]

Critics are going to use these stories to argue that modern technology is being used by teenagers to accelerate society’s moral decline.

Story 1: Bogus Craigslist Ad Leads to Destruction of a House
Craigslist is a free and popular Internet classified advertising service that was recently abused by a tenant who posted a fake ad in retaliation [...]

China’s Internet economy is booming. Last year, Internet gaming revenue grew by 73 percent to 654.6 Billon RMB. (source: People’s Daily) Companies such as Shanda, The9, TenCent have become huge businesses providing very popular MMORPG (Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games) such as World of Warcraft, Yulgang and Legend of Mir II to more than [...]

The Internet may seem like a paradise for free speech, but the recent spate of online harassment and death threats targeted at blogger Kathy Sierra has generated some intense soul searching and discussion among the neterati about the action that should be taken, if any to keep the Internet free of such abuse.
Tim O’Reilly has [...]

Below is a chart of the top English language Shanghai blogs according to their Technorati ranking. This chart position is based on the number of other blogs that link to the site and not on visitor traffic. Technorati has “technical” difficulties in China due to unofficial firewalls and lots of obvious local blogs were [...]

I have written a couple of posts about the problems or challenges faced by schools in 2007 in terms of meeting the learning needs of digital natives who have been reared on technology. Today l am going to look forward by suggesting some practical ways to bridge the gap between digital immigrants (teachers) and digital [...]

Today I went to the Worldwide Medical Centre at Huashan Hospital. The clinic is a private outpatient service offering treatment to foreigners by English speaking staff and it is much cheaper than either World Link or Shanghai East Medical Centre. I went to Huashan Hospital to treat the infected eczema on my right leg. The [...]

Wordpress and China Mobile don’t make it easy for us PDA bloggers using Windows Mobile 5. Perhaps I am a subset of a subset, but I just want to write an offline message and then put it on the Internet using GPRS if I need to. I want ubiquitous connectivity even if there is no [...]