internet - MSN Spaces: not blocked but just hard to get in

When a website is hard to get in, in China most people think it is the official firewall or nanny that tries to stop them. Frank Dai of Global Voices explains that the largest provider of weblogs, MSN Spaces, is not blocked, but just has changed its way to login. He ads some information to get access again.
Some site remain officially blocked and you would need a proxy to get to them, like the weblogs hosted at blogger.com and the largest online encyclopedia Wikipedia. I'm still in the dark about what is happening to the search engine for weblogs Technorati. There are troubles in getting access, but when I test the route the testing system just breaks down, unlike with 'normal' blocks where you can see where the problem actually is.