China: the blogosphere to pass 100 million
Posted by John Burke on May 10, 2006 at 1:31 PM
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
1 Comments
Leave a comment
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: China: the blogosphere to pass 100 million.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.editorsweblog.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/960
"Paying the mobile consumer creates a healthy system that will spread by word of mouth among the public, theoretically extending news reporting to everyone."
I guess this means we have countless programs like America's Funniest Phone Videos to look forward to in the future.
"...mobile news will change the editorial process: the key to mobile news is to create volume first and edit the content later."
Please explain "create volume" to me. Are you saying that unverified, scandalous material guaranteed to generate a high volume of readers will go to air/press without its being vetted until later? Won't that entirely destroy the faith people have that newspapers at least have some semblance of verity?