China Digital Times
Encyclopedia
China Digital Times is a bilingual "collaborative news website covering China’s social and political transition and its emerging role in the world," according to the site's About page. The site is run by the Counter-Power Lab at the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
, and is edited primarily by faculty and students at the Journalism School, with contributions from volunteer bloggers.
CDT aggregates breaking news, analysis, and commentary about China from the English-language media and translates content and daily recommendations of readings from the Chinese blogosphere. The content is organized into main categories which include: Politics, Economy, Society, Law, Culture, Sci-Tech, World, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Each post is also tagged with more specific keywords. The site includes special sections for book reviews, multimedia features, podcasts, and News Focus topics which include the Environmental Crisis, Human Rights, Information Revolution, Beijing Olympics 2008, and the Great Divide. The website compiles, augments, and distributes its content through the innovative use of Web 2.0
technologies, such as Weblogs
, Wiki
, RSS
, social bookmarking
, tagging
, and photo and video sharing.
According to Alexa.com, visitors of China Digital Times site are coming from more than one hundred countries. The China Digital Times website is currently blocked in mainland China.
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, and is edited primarily by faculty and students at the Journalism School, with contributions from volunteer bloggers.
CDT aggregates breaking news, analysis, and commentary about China from the English-language media and translates content and daily recommendations of readings from the Chinese blogosphere. The content is organized into main categories which include: Politics, Economy, Society, Law, Culture, Sci-Tech, World, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Each post is also tagged with more specific keywords. The site includes special sections for book reviews, multimedia features, podcasts, and News Focus topics which include the Environmental Crisis, Human Rights, Information Revolution, Beijing Olympics 2008, and the Great Divide. The website compiles, augments, and distributes its content through the innovative use of Web 2.0
Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
technologies, such as Weblogs
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
, Wiki
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
, RSS
RSS
-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
, social bookmarking
Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them....
, tagging
Tag (metadata)
In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...
, and photo and video sharing.
According to Alexa.com, visitors of China Digital Times site are coming from more than one hundred countries. The China Digital Times website is currently blocked in mainland China.