blogging - Typepad unblocked

Single Planet was the first to discover that his 'typepad' weblog was no longer blocked by the internet censor. The censor has been systematically blocking the IP-addresses of the larger foreign weblog hosts, while domestic hosts had to rely on policing their servers.
Apart from a possible incident - for example typad has changed its IP address and the censor has not found out yet - it might be the beginning of a new policy. Last month Microsoft started its weblog service MSN Spaces and had - according to its CEO Bill Gates within weeks close to a million new users.
But the domain names of blogger.com, internationally the largest host of weblogs and owned by Google, remains blocked. Because weblogs can be hosted easy on other servers and many Chinese users that would surf outside China use so-called proxies, the effect of the so-called IP-blocks is fairly limited.