Recently, I added my blog to Technorati. It is a search engine currently tracking 37 million sites with 2.3 billion links. What distinguishes Technorati from regular search engines, like Google or Yahoo, is that it updates frequently. Sometimes updates are available within minutes. So, it is very useful to keep track of blogs or frequently changing news websites. Also, I started adding Technorati tags to all my reports, so readers can easily find relevant posts on my blog. I went back and re-tagged all posts since April 1st.
Strangely enough, as I started using Technorati, its website became unavailable in China, as reported on Technorati Webblog from April 26th. Thus, Technorati became an another victim of a standard Chinese practice to censor ‘undesirable’ web content for Chinese Internet users. Luckily, it can be accessed through a proxy provided by Anonymouse.org. Here is the direct link, and here is the ‘anonymoused’ link to Technorati.com. Good to know, thanks to Mad About Shanghai blog;) BTW, the same blog also reports that Technorati is accessible again. So, it seems that filtering isn’t as systematic and fool-proof as Chinese censors would like it to be…
Moreover, there is a possibility that this Blogspot-listed blog won’t be accessible in China either. I have asked a fellow travelers and expats living in China to check my blog. Some were able to see it, some were not, dependent on location. I’m planning to spend in China up to two months and it would be nice if I could upload photos and short reports every other week, or so. Still, it is not a big issue as I will have other worries when criss-crossing Tibet and Xinjiang;) Besides, the Internet access will be possible only in a few big cities, i.e. Kashgar and Ali.
April 29th, 2006
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Rich |
Blogging, China, Preparation |
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