Tag Archives: great-firewall

Humanaught “art” on TechCrunch/Washington Post

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. …

Harmonization goes one step further, soon to be on all Chinese PCs

Well, it’s June 9–five days after that anniversary of events that “never happened”–and Internet access is limping back to normal here in the PRC. Twitter is unblocked and Flickr is… erm… flickering back to normal. YouTube and Blogspot are still out, but maybe those switches are in a different GFW building or something. I’ll be patient.

And just as the sun was beginning to shine on my online experience, I get this news:

Unblock Flickr In China

John over at Sinosplice was nice enough to tune me in to Access Flickr!, a little gem of a Firefox plugin that lets all us Flickr photo viewers unfortunate enough to be subject to the schitzo ‘on again off again (more off again)’ whims of the Great Firewall of China once again see the images.