internet - "BBS more important than weblogs"

Sam Flemming of CIC data talks to China Tech News about his new company monitoring the internet in China.

Blogku Media will be an interesting one to watch to see how they adapt this western model to China. Unlike the west, there aren't a comparatively large number of "A-List" bloggers that have potential to generate a lot of income through advertising, at least not yet--with definite exceptions like Keso and celebrity bloggers like XuJingLei.
For now, we believe that there are more interesting conversations and larger volume of conversations on BBS, than blogs, especially for our clients.

If time allows Sam will join my test of Skypecasting on Monday when we want to talk with the Shanghai webloggers group about the recent events at Technorati, the global weblog search engine trying to get a more international flavour by adding celebrity-blogger Xu Jinglei to its top-100.