keeping up with the blogs

Without a really good Chinese blog search engine (see previous post), it is going to be difficult to keep up with the Chinese blogosphere.  China Daily, reporting from the annual meeting of the
Internet Information Service Commission of the Internet Society of China in
Hainan, says:

Fang Xingdong, chairman and CEO of bokee.com, China’s largest blog website,
said in an interview, that he foresees a volcanic rise of blog writers in the
coming years. Fang estimated that China now has up to 12-15 million active
bloggers, who are contributing 65,000 blogs an hour.

“Their writings are freewheeling, dynamic, and interactive with millions
reading and commenting. These people are making thousands of varied statements
on the Internet,” Fang said. “It is really a mistake to say there is no freedom
of Internet speech in China.”

(via Chineseinternetresearch)