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Apologies to anyone looking for bars, restaurants or news about Dalian. The site is down with a bad case of DOS.
We (by which I mostly mean Alex) are looking into the matter, which may or may not involve new hosting.
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In a comment on yesterday’s post about making news easy to find and easy to share, Alex reminds me that he and I have had this conversation before. Now that I think about it, we’ve had this conversation a lot, especially about finding relevant news based on location.
And about this time last year you and [...]
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I come back to this thought again and again in my head:
I don’t need more video, or more multimedia of any kind, or even databases or forums or yet another social network. All I want, as a reader, is news that is easy to find and easy to share. It’s what I want in the [...]
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When I arrived in Dalian, most of what I knew about the city came from word of mouth. I’d spent a few months hanging around a local expat forum, reading blogs, emailing people who lived there.
I read up on the city where I could, but coverage of smaller cities in China (even small cities of [...]
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