internet - 300,000 webloggers and counting

China has now about 300,000 active webloggers and the number is going up very fast, said Isaac Mao of www.cnblog.org in the BloggerCon meeting in Sasha's in Shanghai. We could not get the webcast from the conference in Boston, but that proved to be a blessing in disguise. Many people met for the first time and varied from experienced bloggers to newbie's. It was a good atmosphere to get the first discussions going on where the weblogs and journalism in China are heading for.
For a feature that is less than two years old in China and is only at the start of its expansion, it is very hard to talk already about a revolution taking place. Mao expects a 'tipping point' when more than a million Chinese will be weblogging. That might take a few months more.