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这周四的时候，北京律师刘晓原的博客赢得德国之声年度最佳中文博客这一荣誉。而在周五的时候，他发现他在搜狐网站的镜像博客被封了。幸运的是，作为一个知名的博客，他可以叫搜狐的编辑帮忙恢复他在搜狐的博客，然而编辑不会向他解释这其中到底发生了怎么一回事。具有讽刺意味的是，在华尔街日报对他的采访中，刘晓原刚刚还赞扬了搜狐，称跟他使用的其他博客平台来比，搜狐的審查相对而言更为体贴：
如果我公布的图表中，指名道姓地标明谁審查严厉，谁審查松懈的话，当局极有可能找那些審查松懈公司的茬。因此在右边的图表中我把公司的名字统统换成了单个字母。这发布的108篇文章里，内容涉及各个来源（从新华社到持异见的网站都有）的各种公共事件和新闻相关主题，審查最为勤快（censor-happy）的公司将这些文章删掉一半还多，而審查最为松散的公司只審查了一篇。（请注意，这些文章中我只发了一篇有关“轮子”，一篇有关“八平方”的文章，因为大多数博客作者都清楚这些内容必然会受到審查。——所以观察当下中文博客们感兴趣并且有可能讨论的其他话题是如何遭受審查的更为有趣些。）

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Seven blog news trackers compared | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

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LiteraryMinded: Join the Revolution! An interview with Antony Loewenstein on <i>The Blogging Revolution</i>

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The bloggers and dissidents that Antony Loewenstein meets up with in The Blogging Revolution are from repressive regimes Iran, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China. Some face torture and imprisonment for speaking out - not just about political issues, but on details of their social or personal lives and beliefs. Some use the medium to garner an audience beyond their own country - to express frustration of their situation, and give others better opportunities for understanding their culture and the individuals within it. Some bloggers utilise the medium to educate others in their own area - on topics like women's rights and sexual health.
The internet is not in itself a revolutionary force, though it certainly has allowed countless new voices to be heard across the world. I like the description by leading Chinese blogger, Isaac Mao, who said in early August: 'Blogs encourage young people to become more individual'. That is incendiary in many places around the world.
Take China. The biggest online population in the world, 250 million and growing, and study after study appears to show a high level of satisfaction with the regime’s authoritarian stance. The vast majority of people apparently support extensive web filtering. Economic freedom has revolutionised the country, while maintaining a lid on political change. Is this the kind of 'change' that many of us would like, when human rights abuses are still rampant in the Communist land? No, but lecturing China about its obligations is not the way forward. Engagement is essential and talking to Chinese bloggers about their attitude that Western media hates their country for challenging American hegemony.