Friday, February 27, 2004

internet - Creating a Chinese echo chamber

I was up in the air in the online place where you cannot not yet get online, and had time to think things over.

Webloggers in the US got in the past few months really upset when their new way of communicating was compared with an echo chamber, a chamber that can produce a lot of noice, but is hardly noticed in the rest of the world.
The next meeting of webloggers, Bloggercon on 17 April in Harvard University, will even focus on that idea: the blogosphere as an echo chamber.
I too think that in the US this qualification is not reflecting the truth, but to be honest, in the rest of the world it is for webloggers even hard to create a bit of an echo. That is not only China, but larger parts of Asia and almost all of Europe.

In the US, because of the large number of webloggers and an increased level of quality of the top-bloggers, the effects are much larger. Traditional media take up the habit and there is no subject or webloggers have an influence on it.
In developing the blogosphere, many things cannot be influenced. The relative connectivity of people, the availability of enough tools, much are independent forces. But in a few fields we can make a difference, and that is what I will try to do in the China Herald.
I want to create an echo, maybe not a large one, but one that bumps into other walls of the internet and comes back. Yes, perhaps an echo chamber, in China we would be very happy to have an echo chamber.

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