Rebecca MacKinnon at RConversation discusses the tech boom and blogging in China.

China: resource scarcity, tech boom, and blogger disagreements

She has an experienced and reasoned take on the situration. Be sure to read this before MSM (main-stream media) writes the stories about how blogs will soon bring Democracy to Chinese shores.

She also blogs the weather! “You can taste Beijing’s air and it gave me a headache since I’m no longer used to it.”

Yes. After a few weeks traveling in China, I blew my nose much more often and there was granular black things in the mucus.