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All the bloggers you know showed up for AmCham's "Digital Influence" panel on how the internet is changing business in China.

In John's round-up of Chinese bloggers' responses to the Saffron Revolution, he mentioned that some Chinese bloggers used "this incident as an opportunity to reflect on the state of China's own democratic movement."

NY Times David Barboza: Mr. Wei’s widow. . .said she had been ordered by the government not to talk to the media. . Mr. Wei is now being hailed as a brave “citizen journalist” and a martyr. [Some] are saying justice came because of the publicity raised by bloggers, pursuing their own brand of justice.

East South West North strings together the tale of what happens when China's infamous "human search engine" gets it wrong. A university student brags about being a "kept mistress", the human search engine goes to work and posts photos of a girl living in Chengdu alleged to be her - the girl's blog is blasted, her private information passed out, her phone rings non-stop, her computer is under attack - but she's not the mistress - they got it wrong - and now she's suing.

From the Associated Press, China is furthering its promise to "purify the environment" of the Internet by cracking down even harder on China blogs and search engine results.

The story of how a once obscure search engine has come to be the most-visited site in China. This site supposedly trounces Google and Yahoo in the Middle Kingdom. The kicker, though, is that it mixes ads into your search results and lets the censors do what they please. Very interesting.

Impressive earnings are sending the stock of China's leading search engine into orbit.

A short story on how a survey by Reporters Without Borders shows that 64 bloggers round the world are imprisoned for blogging negatively about their country/government. According to the Danish news 50 of these are located Chinese prisons.

The uproar over the Starbucks in Beijing's Forbidden City isn't really about the power of bloggers and citizen media in China, argues Rebecca MacKinnon. What's it really about? Well, that's more complicated. Best to just read the whole thing.