China Sees Dramatic Increase in Blogs in 2007 — Important Development for Health Care
by Fred Fortin
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WHCB: “China Sees Dramatic Increase in Blogs in 2007 — Important Development for Health Care” « ajfortin.com wrote @ December 28th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
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Arthur wrote @ December 29th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Wordpress and Blogger outputs are blocked in mainland China so Chinese users can only choose BSP such as Sohu and Sina for blogging. As there controls through the Internet service in PRC, inappropriate contents in the web logs would be erased without warning.Individual blog is not workable in this country for it’s easily GFWed by Internet supervisors.
I seldom find valuable healthcare topic blogs in China. The so called health blogs are bussinese marketing sites for drugs or disease curing from private hospitcals. As there are rare visitors and disscussion, physicians post there personal life while record medical work in there blogs.
There is still a long way for health care web 2.0 in China.
Alfred J. Fortin wrote @ December 30th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Arthur,
I’ve following these developments for a while, both language and censorship are certainly main obstacles to better interaction. Language challenges can be handled over time. Censorship is another issue altogether. From Edward Cody of the Washington Post:
“More than 30,000 censors are employed to monitor the Internet alone, specialists estimate. They are equipped with advanced technology to block sensitive sites and sound the alarm when words deemed off-color or politically incorrect show up on the screen. The system, part of a vast apparatus extending to newspapers, theaters and art galleries, remains part of life for most people in a China otherwise modernizing at breakneck speed.”
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