micro-blogging

blogs.wsj.com — China's top Internet watchdog has waded into the debate surrounding the country's increasingly influential Twitter-like microblogging sites, praising them as a platform for communication but calling for them to be more tightly regulated to ensure a "healthy" environment online.

www.thestar.com — China has blocked the word "Egypt" from the country's wildly popular Twitter-like service, while coverage of the political turmoil has been tightly restricted in state media. (Here's more on the situation from ChinaGeeks.)

www.techcrunch.com — Yesterday Plurk, a micro-messaging service that competes with Twitter, discovered that it is being blocked in China