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DANWEI has organized a panel discussion on foreign media's news coverage of China. Here is a sum up.

Posted by Oiwan Lam

University student and blogger id:suztomo describes (with many photos) their experience in September doing an internship [ja] at Hatena in Kyoto, Japan. The blogger had two objectives with the internship: to learn how to set up a server that can withstand many users, and to learn about how web services are developed at Hatena. id:suztomo explains that each person working at Hatena has skills in a different area, and hopes in the future to have their own specialization.

Despite the Typhoon, the LGBT community had their annual rally in Taipei city. peopo.org has put up a video on the event with coolloud.org.tw's citizen report.

David Bandurski from China media project wrote a detailed article about Sanlu's public relation strategy in creating the high-quality image of its milk products and showed how the media is conspired in relaying the lie.