China: Steps towards aggregation · Global Voices
John Kennedy

The fault for the weak link between major blog aggregators and non-English blogs, says China Herald blogger Fons Tuinstra, lies not with the aggregators but with the ignorance of the local bloggers themselves.
“It all boils down to pinging the Technorati servers,” writes the Shanghai-based China consultant. “When you cannot be bothered (like many Chinese webhosts), Technorati will not list you. We actually had to explain [to] a participant in India what a ping is.”