Reports surfaced via Twitter that China has ordered "recreational" websites and services to be taken offline for three days of mourning the quake victims. It doesn't even stop there. Every Chinese channel will be running 24/7 Quake coverage, as well. Marc Chijs (co-founder Todou and CEO of China Spill Group), Frank Yu, Andrew Lih, and Robert Scoble have more inside information about this breaking story. While it ...

I've been seeing more and more IST students jumping onto Twitter recently (I won't name them here but you can find some of them on my "following" list). Twitter is essentially a "microblogging" platform, and it can be described as a unique combination of the following elements: social network + blogging + away message + instant messaging + email + feed reader. If you're not familiar with it, ...