As The Wired already explained a couple of days ago ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/google-china-fiction/ ) what Google and Chinese government agreed on is pure fiction. Google doesn't redirect Chinese users to the Honk Kong search engine automatically, but there is a button to easily switch and google.hk is left uncensored in China, meaning that the Chinese can still search Google without filtering. The article linked by Slashdot as the source presents the Chinese official version of the story which obviously hides the above fact.

To me it's essential to read a few reviews (even very short ones like "too sentimental" or "powerful and original") by people I know to have a similar movie taste to me. That's why I like the two websites I mentioned above -- they exactly tell you whose opinions you should care for and whose you can safely ignore. On the other hand, http://jinni.com/ and http://clerkdogs.com/ have some pretty cool ideas as well - they suggest you movies based on your mood and your taste. Still in beta though, so it does not always work as expected, but worth trying anyways.

Does anyone find Netflix recommendations any good anyway? I used http://criticker.com/ for quite a while and was very happy about the recommended stuff. Recently switched to http://filmaster.com/ (which is a free service) and it's equally good, even though both probably use a pretty simple algorithm compared to Nextflix.

Here is the Polish translation of this article: http://osnews.pl/problemem-nie-jest-gates-lecz-bariery-ktore-stworzyl/