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Fons Tuinstra at Poynter has found that most analysts gauging the Chinese blogosphere were missing 50 million blogs. That added to the 33.4 million that one research group estimated and the 100,000 blogs per day that one blog supplier claims are created in China, the booming country will have well over 100 million blogs by 2007. Still, some doubt that this massive amount of blog will lead to any organized freedom of expression concerning the countries politics.

Sources: Poynter (here and here), We Media's Morph blog 

Mark Glaser at Online Journalism Review has written an article describing the plight of bloggers in a Bahrain, a country whose government regularly censors the press. The government's Ministry of Information requires that all Websites and blogs register with the government, a decree to which Bahrain's most prominent blogger, Mahmood Al-Yousif, head of a tech company Computer Point, refuses to comply. He doubts that others will give in to government demands either, esteeming that they will simply post anonymously, possibly under multiple names in order to avoid censorship.

Mr. Al-Yousif's example helps promote the blogosphere as a tool for freedom of speech around the world. There is much speculation as to how repressive regimes will react once their populations start blogging, such as in Iran and in China. As blogs spread, it is highly likely that the joys of free expression of repressed populations will spur the proliferation of liberty and just democracy throughout the world.

Source: Online Journalism Review

Mark Glaser at Online Journalism Review has written an article describing the plight of bloggers in a Bahrain, a country whose government regularly censors the press. The government's Ministry of Information requires that all Websites and blogs register with the government, a decree to which Bahrain's most prominent blogger, Mahmood Al-Yousif, head of a tech company Computer Point, refuses to comply. He doubts that others will give in to government demands either, esteeming that they will simply post anonymously, possibly under multiple names in order to avoid censorship.

Mr. Al-Yousif's example helps promote the blogosphere as a tool for freedom of speech around the world. There is much speculation as to how repressive regimes will react once their populations start blogging, such as in Iran and in China. As blogs spread, it is highly likely that the joys of free expression of repressed populations will spur the proliferation of liberty and just democracy throughout the world.

Source: Online Journalism Review

It's not just mobile newspapers that have hit China's media world (see previous posting). Wired reports that China is also getting a taste of the blogosphere. A 24-year old New York University MBA holder, Edwyn Chan is using Gawker's Nick Denton as a model to launch his own company. Starting with kangri.blogku.com (in Chinese), Chan received 10,000 hits in the first four days of its launch. He plans to add a humor blog, a blog about gaming, and a beauty blog to his start-up. But can the free spirited nature of a blog survive in a country whose government controls the press? Chan has already been visited by Chinese officials, but instead of shutting him down, they merely requested that he remove several postings. How will Chan avoid future knocks on his door? Well, he simply won't include a political blog in his blog mélange.

Source: Wired

It's not just mobile newspapers that have hit China's media world (see previous posting). Wired reports that China is also getting a taste of the blogosphere. A 24-year old New York University MBA holder, Edwyn Chan is using Gawker's Nick Denton as a model to launch his own company. Starting with kangri.blogku.com (in Chinese), Chan received 10,000 hits in the first four days of its launch. He plans to add a humor blog, a blog about gaming, and a beauty blog to his start-up. But can the free spirited nature of a blog survive in a country whose government controls the press? Chan has already been visited by Chinese officials, but instead of shutting him down, they merely requested that he remove several postings. How will Chan avoid future knocks on his door? Well, he simply won't include a political blog in his blog mélange.

Source: Wired