internet - Blogging service ordered to shut down

Henan-based Blogbus, host to about 15,000 weblogs, has been ordered to close its doors, writes Isaac Mao at his weblog (and I was tipped by Joi Ito).
Weblogs are in China a fairly new way of publishing. In the US they exist since the 1990s, but became very popular after the attacks at 9/11. Popular weblogs can get between 20,000 and 50,000 readers per day. About 2.7 million weblogs are now active in the US only. In China weblogs came in the limelight as the internet censors banned weblogs from Blogger.com at the beginning of last year, cover half of all the existing weblogs. Other weblogs did not have any problem.
The reasons for the shutdown of Blogbus.com are not yet clear.