manninchina

Back to Beijing this evening and thought I would give youtube a try, still accessible.

As of 31 January, 2008 - any web video site that is not either State owned or State controlled was not going to be allowed to operate. Youtube (owned by Google) is neither. Suspect there are/will be some loop holes, but a bit surprised youtube.com isn’t actually blocked yet (has been before).

So, because it’s still open, I can share this with you … a video I saw a few days ago at a kick off meeting for a large IT project … very funny and very similar to things I face daily.

Youtube link embedding not work now, so here’s the link…

First IT Professional 

I’m over on yahoo hosting now (went with mannblogs.com as master domain). If this somehow becomes non-functional, I’m not sure what I’ll do next.

I’m using google reader to view blogs (even ones that aren’t blocked in China). The only thing I don’t like is I can’t comment via google reader. So, for those of you who have blogs that are blocked here (it is now virtually all that are hosted with the service providers … wordpress, blogger, typead, etc…), I can’t comment on your blogs.