Jason Pearce

When I read Google’s blog posting entitled “A new approach to China,” I thought of the famous “Tank Man” image — the 1989 photo of a single man standing up to four tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

While Google is much larger than a single man, it still doesn’t have any tanks. I swapped out a Google map marker and came up with this image.

China has such a huge population that it seems to me that too many companies make too many concessions with the Chinese government in order to conduct business in their country. Today, Google said no more. It’s no longer going to filter and censor its search engine results — even if it means they are no longer welcome to provide services to the Chinese.

I received my Google Wave invite while I was away on my honeymoon.

While it is nice to have access to the tool, it would be more useful if I could send invitations to coworkers and friends so I could actually have a reason to try it out. I have five contacts, but none whom I work with regularly. Perhaps Google will soon permit users to invite others much the same way they did when Gmail launched.

Do you have a Google Wave account? If so, let me know and we can give it a spin.

Desperate to access your Gmail during today’s outage? Consider accessing your Gmail via the IMAP protocol. Here are instructions on how to configure IMAP for various clients. Unfortunately, you will have needed to enabled IMAP access first, which can only be done via Gmail Settings.

On Tuesday, September 01, 2009, many were experiencing errors accessing www.gmail.com or http://mail.google.com/ via a web browser. Thankfully, IMAP access via my iPhone still works.

Videos like this one, while cool, often make me wonder about how accurate the data is.

This one reminds me of some of the videos Mike Wesch posted a few years ago.