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English-language China bloggers unite! The China Blog Network has arrived.

In an effort to tie together all us sinobloggers, we’re launching the China Blog Network, a (appropriately enough) network of China blogs that all link together in a ring-around-the-rosie style (we’re praying we don’t all fall down).

Tired of Internet censorship? Is your site being blocked for having "sensitive" words? Then Censortive is for you. Use this plugin to replace those pesky words with their graphic equivalent, making them invisible to censorship robots.

The link in this post goes to the main plugin page, but you can read more about it at my blog.

The Hao Hao Report has been added to the latest version of the excellent WordPress plugin - Sociable. The plugin allows blog owners to easily add a collection of icons to their posts making the addition of their articles to various social bookmarking sites (such as this) a breeze.

To see this in action - check out any of the posts at the Lost Laowai Blog.

From Mark Ghosh: I will be traveling in China through the earlier part of December. This is a great opportunity for me to meet some of my Chinese readers, fellow bloggers and WordPress aficionados. If you are interested in meeting, are knowledgeable about the area or could provide some tips, please leave a comment or contact me directly. As the itinerary stands, the following times are open for me.

China added another 14 million Internet users in 2006, retaining its status as the world's second-largest Internet market, with 137 million total users, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) announced Tuesday.

ResponsibleChina's recommendations for the best blogs and Web sites about the environment and corporate social responsibility in China.

The Great Firewall censors content at three levels. Nine Internet Access Providers supply Internet to China–and each IAP is connected to a foreign Internet source. Each IAP is connected to thousands of Internet Service Providers, which sell internet to Chinese users. The first level of The Great Firewall’s censorship occurs at the IAP level. IAP administrators enter all URLs and keywords deemed to provide ‘unsuitable’ content. ISPs are required to have software to back up the IAP-level censorship.

We've turned off anonymous voting (the ability for all site visitors to vote on stories) and limited it to registered users for the time being.

The idea behind the Hao Hao Report is to have a method for all of us to quickly find the best and most interesting posts and news reports about China.

It has always been the policy of HHR to allow users to submit articles from their own blogs, as a way of both promoting their blog and exposing the community to diverse sources of commentary and information.

Burglars caught live on the internet. This is the future, now all we need is remote controlled 'deterents'