Wednesday, March 9, 2011


In China the government has established what has become known as the "Great Firewall of China".  This is government censorship of many web sites also includes many search terms such as the three T's.  Although as this article state the government in china is going to have a harder time controlling what is put on the web nowadays with podcasts and video messages it is becoming harder for the government to control what is being put on the web.  These podcasts and video messages require a deeper look then text files, which the government can easily watch. 
I also found this picture to be an appropriate descriptor of the government in china. It seems to some people that the government is looking at every thing that they do like they are under a microscope. 

Tuesday, March 8, 2011



This map shows the world in relation to the amount of movies that are watched in a movie theater by people each year.  We can see that this map is dominated by the USA, and India.  There are over twelve thousand movie theaters in India, which can very from a one-room shack to amazing movie theaters.  And of the 7.6 billion movies that were watched in one year almost 3 billion of those viewings happened in India. 
Bollywood, which is the Indian equivalent of the American Hollywood.  Makes a amazing amount of movies each year and we can see the effect of this out put by how many trips are made to the movie theaters each year.