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China: Blog service providers

Categories: East Asia, China, Digital Activism, Technology

uleewang at Non-violent Resistance blogs on Chinese blog service provider BlogBus’ new blog moving service [1]:

“It's pretty obvious what this could mean to the domestic blogsphere. If you are not happy with your current BSP, you can move house with the least hassle — in a matter of 20 minutes and some clicks of the mouse, you can dump the sorry old home and start anew without losing your online identity. Right on, Blogbus!” [2]

uleewang follows up with a comment, “[a]pparently I was over-optimistic about BlogBus's service, as people tend to be about a lot of things in China these days. Experimented with my own MSN Space a couple of times in the past week. Never worked. The exporting process seems to work fine in the beginning, with a window telling me ‘XX blog entries already exported.’ But somehow it always gets stuck at 59 blog entries.”