<story><title>A new approach to China: an update</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seymour</author><text>Could someone please explain to me the frequency of the sentence, &quot;Seriously.&quot;? An in joke? I don&apos;t get it...</text></item><item><author>eob</author><text>Seriously. It would be nice to see a widget like this that anyone could throw up on their site or blog. Problem would be getting the update -- you&apos;d have to have a server in China pinging all the participating sites, I suppose.&lt;p&gt;This could be a very nice way for the web to passively protest China&apos;s censorship: put a strip at the top of your blog that displays whether or not your blog is readable in China at the moment. Even if the Chinese couldn&apos;t see it, plenty of people outside of China would, raising awareness of the problem and putting pressure on China.</text></item><item><author>lotharbot</author><text>IMO, the most valuable thing to come out of all of this is the China apps status dashboard:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;tells us what China is currently allowing, blocking, or partially blocking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>queensnake</author><text>(Strong agreement, like, &apos;Indeed!&apos;, &apos;Right on!&apos;, &apos;Quite!&apos;, &apos;You said it!&apos;, &apos;Yeah no kidding!&apos;, &apos;For sure!&apos;, (or more recently, &apos;this!&apos; :) ))</text></comment>
<story><title>A new approach to China: an update</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seymour</author><text>Could someone please explain to me the frequency of the sentence, &quot;Seriously.&quot;? An in joke? I don&apos;t get it...</text></item><item><author>eob</author><text>Seriously. It would be nice to see a widget like this that anyone could throw up on their site or blog. Problem would be getting the update -- you&apos;d have to have a server in China pinging all the participating sites, I suppose.&lt;p&gt;This could be a very nice way for the web to passively protest China&apos;s censorship: put a strip at the top of your blog that displays whether or not your blog is readable in China at the moment. Even if the Chinese couldn&apos;t see it, plenty of people outside of China would, raising awareness of the problem and putting pressure on China.</text></item><item><author>lotharbot</author><text>IMO, the most valuable thing to come out of all of this is the China apps status dashboard:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;tells us what China is currently allowing, blocking, or partially blocking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eob</author><text>I never stopped to think this was a regional colloquialism, but I suppose it is..&lt;p&gt;I used it above to mean &quot;I agree&quot;</text></comment>