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new media for the masses in china?
November 4th, 2003
i really enjoy reading wang jian shuo’s blog because he’s a fellow shanghainese who is currently living in shanghai (me having hometown pride) or maybe because he provides valuable information about shanghai and various other things on his blog. I first stumpled to his site when I did a google search on how to install perl on windows. Today I found on his blog the link to Top 47 key tips from the world’s best bloggers which led me to NetGuide Magazine and cnblog.org. I find NetGuide’s feature articles extremely interesting. Unfortunately I don’t live in New Zealand otherwise I probably would subscribe. Do they have interesting magazines like that in the US? I guess I’m not a magazine digger so I might have missed a great deal. I’ve always believed you can find plenty of information about the web through the web itself. But to have them in an organized and renewable fashion would be a bonus which I am willing to pay cash for. The discovery of cnblog.org is a breath taking event to say the least. I have no idea blogs are becoming a new trend in China. That site discusses much of the international blogging trend online with interwined chinese and english. I just can not believe it. It discusses the possibility of blogs becoming China’s new media for freedom of speech. If that becomes true, it would be revolutionary. However I still believe much of the internet unlike in western countries are under governmental control in China. As the author said, there will be a long way to go.
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