internet - 2005, the year weblogs skyrocketed

Frank Dai gives an overview of the blogosphere for Global Voices where most of the important issues, the confusion of the real numbers, the quality and the extensive media coverage.

The biggest question for Chinese blogs is still the censorship issue. As the blogosphere evolved, so did the great firewall. Blogsome, Typepad and Blog-City were blocked in succession, and Blogspot, after a short interval, were still blocked by the government. The policy that require every website to resigster administrator’s real name, and the Regulation on Internet Information and News Services, have put rigid control and restriction blogger. Whatever the consequence of such measures are, the censorship will influence the development of blog to a very large proportion.