Blogging China

The NY Times reports on how a network of 4M blogs is impacted China’s authorities and culture, calling it a “death by a thousand blogs.” Insurgent blogging is “eroding the leadership’s monopoly on information and is complicating the traditional policy of ‘nei jin wai song’ — cracking down at home while pretending to foreigners to be wide open.” Business blogging is catching on as well, as posted on Kevin Wen’s blog. Imagine the impact of a long tail in China, with 100 million Chinese now surfing the web.