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Order the cool new “Certified by Netizens” official chinaSMACK t-shirt, designed by Paul Guo and printed by ML.lab. For a limited time, receive a 15% discount!

Hi everyone, chinaSMACK will be temporarily offline and possibly unavailable between 10:00-13:00 14:00-17:00 this Saturday morning afternoon (2009 September 19, China Standard Time) to undergo some server tests and changes. Please avoid posting comments during this time because they could be lost. Thank... 

One year ago, I started chinaSMACK to learn new things and improve myself. After one year, so many things have happened and this website has become much more than my original little project. After one year, chinaSMACK…Has over 300 published posts; Has more than 16,500 comments; Receives over... 

Below are 9 t-shirt designs submitted by chinaSMACK readers from around the world for our 1-year anniversary t-shirt design contest! Thank you, everyone, for your support and creativity! Now, it is time for chinaSMACK visitors to vote on their favorite designs, which we hope to make into our new chinaSMACK... 

Thank you! Thank you everyone for attending this event. I hope everyone enjoyed the movie and their good seats. Thank you to Kai and Elaine for helping (go visit their websites!). Hi everyone， Here is the information for the chinaSMACK, CNReviews, & Shanghaiist Transformers 2 Shanghai Movie... 

Hi everyone, Are you in Shanghai? Would you like to join together and watch Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen? The movie will be released in China on 24 June, Wednesday. I think it will be a very exciting movie! If you are interested, please leave a comment and vote for which days you are able to... 

Hi chinaSMACK artists and designers, chinaSMACK will become 1-year-old one month from today on July 9, 2009. I hope to make many new announcements during this time. However, one way I want to celebrate this anniversary will be organizing a fun chinaSMACK reader design contest. I think there are many... 

Sam Gaskin interviewed me for his cover story, “Blogging, A Dead Horse? How Our Favorite Bloggers Do Much More Than the Name Implies”, in the June 2009 issue of Talk Magazine. This is a comment by Roland Soong (from EastSouthWestNorth) in the article: Translation sites are... 

A few weeks ago, I told everyone that my old computer is dying and I ask for recommendations on a new computer to buy. Many great chinaSMACK readers provided me with a lot of good suggestions and advice. One reader, Lawrence, email me and told me that he wants to give me a IBM Thinkpad T40 notebook... 

Hi everyone, chinaSMACK now has over 210,000 visits each month and has grown so much that we were required to move to a new private server this last weekend. There were some small problems but they should be okay now after some help from some great chinaSMACK commenters and friends. Please let me know... 

From MandMX: Hey Fauna, we love your website… well some of the posts, not all the posts.  But it’s definitely a place I check out often. My wife and I make M and MX.com which is an English/Chinese comic strip.  We also do videos and a Shanghaihua podcast.  Check it out.  Oh and related... 

Hi everyone, my computer is very old. When I use it, it will become very very hot and make a lot of horrible noise. This has happen for a very long time already but recently my computer begin to crash and turn off by itself. I think it will die soon. I think many chinaSMACK visitors are very knowledgeable... 

I recently receive an email from Woody Fu from MTV Iggy: Hi Fauna, Here’s 2 pieces I shot with Christoph Niemann that you might be interested in for your site:Quicky: The Pet Dragon, by Christoph NiemannQuicky: Illustrator/Designer Christoph Niemann He’s an illustrator/designer who... 

Hi everyone. Sorry there have not been some new posts recently because I have been very sick. I am getting better now and will post more soon. I recently receive this email from Helen who wrote about chinaSMACK in That’s Shanghai last year about the 2009 Best of Shanghai : Hi Fauna I hope you’re... 

chinaSMACK appears in the March 2009 issue of That’s Beijing magazine. Craig McIntosh interview me last month for his article, “WWW – World Women’s Web: The girls’ guide to blogging“. You can see the entire “e-magazine” on the That’s Beijing website...