Xinhua - English|Blogging‘s future in China

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Blogging‘s future in China
www.chinaview.cn 2005-11-30 14:13:11
BEIJING, Nov. 30 -- On November 21, the winners of the Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards (also known as the BOBs or Best of the Blogs) were unveiled, with both jury and audience awards for Best Podcasting Site going to the Chinese site Antiwave by Pingke and Flyfig.
Massage Cream by Wang Xiaofeng, a journalist from the magazine Sanlian Life Weekly, was chosen by the jury as Best Journalistic Blog in Chinese, while Feidao Cepan Qianfan Guo by Xiao Feidao scooped the audience prize.
The jury‘s Best Weblog went to A Little Respect, I‘m Your Mother by Argentinean journalist Hernán Casciari, while the audience‘s was given to the Brazilian site Tupiniquim.
The annual awards, run by German website DW-World.de, are in their second year and involved 2,500 bloggers and podcasters, with about 100,000 internet users casting their votes. Last year‘s jury-selected Best Weblog was also a Chinese site called The Dog Newspaper.
The same day the latest results were announced, Fang Xingdong, president of China‘s first blog site Bokee.com, told China.org.cn he believed that, after an initial explosion in popularity in recent years, blogging in China had an even brighter future.
Fang first translated "blog" into Chinese as boke based on its pronunciation, but this also means "knowledgeable man." Other terms that have been used in Chinese include Tribe, Wangzhi (literally "web log") or simply the English "Blog."
In July 2002, Fang found that articles he had written critical of Microsoft had been removed from several websites, including the portal Sina.com, which he said had been due to commercial pressure.
This experience had left him disillusioned with the Internet, but he said a friend then introduc