Blogging is booming in China with the number of bloggers expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year, according to a Reuter's report from Beijing.
China is the world's second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday
But the Communist Party's propaganda mandarins are obsessed with control and have closed down some outspoken blogs. Chat forums and online bulletin boards are routinely monitored for controversial political comments and sensitive words such as "freedom" and "democracy" are censored.
Which reminds me how lucky we are to live in a country that protects freedom of speech. If you are not using your freedom of speech to blog, you are not living full out. Take advantage of what many people fight and die for. Start, or keep blogging on!
A recent report by the Internet Society of China showed nine percent of bloggers write every day, 29 percent write once to three times a week, while 35 percent write four to six times a week, Xinhua said.
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