blogging

www.lostlaowai.com — China Blog Network (CBN) has grown too big for its nearly 2-year residence at LostLaowai.com, and has left the nest to create its own home at ChinaBlogNetwork.com. The move brings with it a number of new features to help China bloggers connect to one another and to get their blog discovered by a wider audience.

chinadigitaltimes.net — Official: So your English is pretty good then? I also frequently read several overseas news websites. A lot of things they write are not very credible, and they seem to really like to report on negative things that are going on in China. We should really read more things about how our country is powerful and dynamic.

granitestudio.org — An excellent analysis of the ultra-nationalistic Chinese "fenqing" or "angry youth" that plague level-headed debate about China across the net, and across languages.

www.bbc.co.uk — Voted the most popular blog of 2008 by People's Daily readers, Mao's grandson is a blogger! The blog mostly gushes about his granddad, and not in a 70/30 way, but still, kinda neat. (h/t Peking Duck)

asia.cnet.com — Here's a Day 1 summary of the recent China 2.0 tour as it hit Shanghai - an excellent event organized by The China Business Network, CNReviews, and Web2Asia. During the two days I had a chance to visit some of Shanghai's more interesting Web companies. Day one covers visits to 51.com and Dianping.com, as well as dinner hosted by Alibaba (his 40 thieves stayed home).