MOREÂ and more people are blogging in Asia. In China alone, there are an estima
ted 30 million bloggers, according to this report from the Voice of America.
Excerpt:
Millions of people in Asia have taken to blogging in recent years, creating personal Web sites that often take the form of an online diary. The wo rd blog derives from Web log. China alone is estimated to have up to 30 million bloggers. As elsewhere in the world, the region's collection of blogs on the Internet is diverse and amorphous. But in Asia, a survey by the U.S. software company Micro soft estimates that nearly half of those who are online have a blog, compared t o just eight percent of U.S. Internet users. Most people create blogs to share their lives and interests with friends, famil y and a few strangers. Many use text and photos, but also sound and video. Othe rs blog to exchange information, create networks or express opinions about a wi de range of issues.
that is a good number of bloggers from China. i hope that in the past 3 years,
things have changed from the time that i was studying E-Governance and we were
discussing about too much censorship and the inexistence of safety and freedom
on the internet/ on blogging per se.
the use of face masks and boosting your immune system by taking lots of vitamin
-C is still an effective way of preventing the spread of the any type of Flu vi
rus. From Avian Flu, Swine Flu and the common Flu.