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Blogging Sweeps China

Posted by michael on from the they-can-have-dave-winer-if-they-like dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dissident astro-physicist, Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at UC Berkeley, interviews Isaac Mao, founder of CNBlog for New Scientist. Asked what is his strategy to expand blogging under China's censorship regime, Mao's response is typically Taoist: 'What is our strategy? We do not have a strategy. But the information flow in the blogosphere has its own Way. The Way is our strategy: personal, fast, connected and networked.'"

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  1. Where are the Iraqi blogs by aggles · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good for the Chinese. Courage to communicate in spite of government's attitude is a positive sign from a country coming out of the dark ages. Now, how about some Iraqi blogs? For all the funds being pumped in there, one would think the Iraqis would have something to say. I'm tired of hearing everything about what is really happening there, third hand. Just so they use a language that can be translated by services such as http://www.worldlingo.com/

  2. Re:Garbage no in, but garbage out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You haven't been to Europe, have you? The difference in coverage is drastic.

    You don't see any Americans killed or wounded (the latter only after they're safe, cleaned up and "wanting to go back there, sir" even without their legs).

    You don't see many Iraqis killed or wounded, save the occasional wounded child from an insurgent bomb.

    Usually either of these happens only if the story is 'big' like the one time a helicopter fired on civilians and got on tape (or the torture). Those films, too, are edited.

  3. Re:Garbage no in, but garbage out by nyekulturniy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are those of us who have military training who have an idea what's going on over there. The combat is messy, but having taken Fallujah in street fighting, the Coalition has denied the insurgents a major base city.

    One thing I've noticed that is significant: al-Jazeera has quieted down. They aren't able to get the communiques from the insurgents as well as they did in the past.

    Overall, it looks as if the fighting is going well for the Coalition, and the Tet offensive of THIS war was done BY the Marines, not TO the Marines.

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    Nyekulturniy... Proudly confusing readers and editors since 1981!