The Chinese Blogosphere Strikes Back
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The country's netizens have become experts at wielding the power of the web to settle personal squabbles. This time, they took on a major tech company-and won
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(InfoWorld) - How many Chinese bloggers are there? Estimates offered by industry analysts vary widely, ranging from several million to more than 30 million, or roughly one-quarter of all Chinese Internet users. Now, the government-backed China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has weighed in with its own estimate, putting the number of active bloggers at 7.7 million. CNNIC, which manages the .cn top-level domain and tracks Chinese Internet usage statistics, defines an active blogger as one who updates their blog at least once per month on average. Beyond the number of active bloggers, far more Chinese Internet users have dabbled with the medium, with a total of 17.5 million users setting up 34 million blogs, it said. CNNIC estimated that 75 millionÂ Internet users read blogs, with 54.7 million of these users defined as "active" blog readers. China had 123 million Internet users at the end of July, based on CNNIC's estimate. Blogs have become very popular among Chinese Internet users in a short period of time. The number of bloggers has increased at a rate that is three times faster than the overall rise in Internet users, CNNIC said. The result has been a 30-fold increase in bloggers since 2002, it said. At this rate, the number of active bloggers in China will hit 10 million before the end of this year, CNNIC said.
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MySpace China gives users the power of instant messaging.
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By Bruce Einhorn and Ben Elgin  Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft endured a wave of public disapproval earlier this year over their compliance with Chinese censorship of their websites.
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By RANDY MYERS  In the no-holds-barred blogosphere, every voice can be raised. But not everyone cares to listen.  Some visit blogs for updates on political chicanery, others to hear about a hot restaurant, movie, celebrity or technogadget.
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Letters And rare praise for Chinese Govt's @itude
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Comment is free: Xinran: The controversy over the posting of explicit images of celebrities reflects the resilience of old taboos outside the big cities
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My Xbox 360 has a blog, and it's starting to get on my nerves.
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Also: Internet boom in China built on virtual fun. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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There are dozens of Weblogs that seemingly anyone who is anybody in the technology industry reads regularly. Lisa Hsu's blog isn't one of them.
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The internet&#39;s bloggers soon got to grips with Rohan Jayasekera&#39;s diatribe against the legacy of murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
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Shits to music industry? So says Xinhuanet, the web site for China&#39;s official state news agency, Xinhua. It almost works, and it carries over into the body text.
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InfoWorld - Reporters Without Borders criticized the Chinese government for what the press advocacy group considers a move to end anonymous blogging in the communist country.
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China backs down from a censorship plan that required people to register on blog sites with their real names.
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The number of blog sites in China   reached 34 million last month, a 30-fold increase from four   years ago, state media said on Tuesday, despite a series of   curbs on media and dissent.
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Internet users in China said attempts to access Google were successful, despite claims on a US blog that traffic was redirected to Baidu.com.
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New rules by a Chinese government-backed Internet group maintain controls over the country's bloggers, requiring them to register