Ryan McLaughlin » gfw http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com I'm a dad, designer, China expat and blogger Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:07:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Humanaught “art” on TechCrunch/Washington Post http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/creative-stuff/humanaught-art-on-techcrunchwashington-post/ http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/creative-stuff/humanaught-art-on-techcrunchwashington-post/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:11:12 +0000 Ryan http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/?p=1757 I love Google Alerts — a quick setup with a few keywords and I immediately get notified if anyone’s talking about me or my various projects. Vain, perhaps, but it let me know a photo from my Flickr stream was used on a TechCrunch post, and intern syndicated on the Washington Post’s site. Pretty cool.

The image (below) is a graphic I did back in mid-2008 for an article on Lost Laowai about the Great Firewall. The TechCrunch article is about Google’s search being completely blocked in the Mainland; which, it turns out, was simply a case of mistaken identity — the GFW thought Google was Radio Free Asia. No one ever said the GFW was smart — in fact, I doubt many have said anything positive about it.

Oh, a cool link that the TechCrunch article references is Google’s Mainland China service availability, which gives a day-by-day access report for Google’s services and whether or not they are blocked in Mainland China.

I think I’ll go set up some new Google Alerts — real random stuff like, “tiny shiny monkey butts” and “compulsive floor lickers”.

Great Firewall of China

Great Firewall of China

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Now, allegedly Feedburner will be redirecting everyone to the original feed, but in case that fails, please note that the proper feed for this site is http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/feed.

Please let me know if you experience any troubles with the site or the feed.

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