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There are always selections at the end of each year. Except those selections, at the same time, various summations also spring out, such as 2009 Top 10 Trends, 10 Sexiest AV Actresses of year…etc.

The year of 2008 was called Netizen’s year for Chinese. During the year of 2008, netizens in China had achieved some signal success. Things like Event of Faked South China Tiger did indeed have very benefit for the society and shed light on such dim tricks.

In this year, however, netizens get more strength but things in China get more curious and ridiculous. There are countless examples: be jobbed, shutdown of Fanfou, porn contents on Google…

Now, the following list is Internet Top 10 in China 2009 From Kenengba.

1. The Anti-porn campaign

2. CCTV office building got fire, netizens cheered

3. Fuck Your Mother Horse got a shot

4. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube are all blocked

5. Netizens who wrote posts are taken into custody

6. Green Dam collapsed

7. Steal Vegetable games flood

8. Xinjiang’s offline for month

9. President Obama answered the political-sensitive question

10. Twitter is in the fashion but Fanfou has gone

Note: This is a blog post by Kenengba. Not the full translation.

It has been almost 30 years since the late president Deng Xiaoping first came out the term “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”. Though the ruling party has not been able to figure that out, a plenty of things with Chinese characteristics has sprung indeed. The typical one is the oil price. As the officers said, we just tied fuel prices of China to the international one. When the international oil price goes up and down, China hikes the price only.

Dogfight between two powerful institutions for Warcraft

There is a tradition in china that different government sectors always are pushing their responsibilities around. But this time, thing has changed. When the World of Warcraft wants to appear again in China, dogfight begins. In the end, Warcraft is suspended and NetEase disappointedly claims that they are waiting for the permit from the authority. General Administration of Press and Publication and the powerful Ministry of Culture are jockeying for influence in this computer game.

Netizen’s day but few netizen know

On the day of 14th September 1987, the first email in China said: “Acrosse the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world”. Now we have the Great Fire Wall. When Chinese people use Google, they will notice at the bottom of the page saying “According to the local law, some results are not displayed.” Plenty of wonderful websites are unavailable including Twitter.com, Youtube.com, and Facebook.com and so on.

Portals with Chinese characteristics

(from kenengba.com)

Certainly, China has the largest population in the world. But it seems has no relation with the length of a single web-page. Sina, Sohu, NetEase, QQ are the top four portals in China but only their hits but also their “large face”. Sina comes first and it almost four times as long as Yahoo’s.

The full version in Chinese is here.