Great FireWall of China blocks 60% of our blogroll!
SM friend Peter Krug sent us this nifty little site that bounces your url to their server in China to see if you’re being censored or blocked. I’m glad to say that SensoryMetrics is still OK – but a big chunk of our favorite blogs are not…
Out of our current 16 sites listed, these are banned in China:
- Jobe’s Photos
- Ingenius Blog
- Matt Roberts
- Social Media Group
- Beyond VC
- Pete’s View
- Seth Godin
- Telecom Vistas
- Paradigm Shift (the PlentyOfFish blog)
- UX Matters
No more dim sum for you folks!
Wow – I feel so subversive all of a sudden.
I wonder if it was my post about voting for your favourite social media site. Too democratic-ish, probably.
Yeah Matt and Maggie are in the COOL crowd!!
I have no idea why this is… One thing I noticed – anything WordPress seems to be bad. Typepad – that’s ok. I thought maybe VCs were bad… but Rick Segal is OK… (He IS a nice guy!) Maybe consumerism? Seth is out but Long Tail Chris is in… Social media – you’d think that would be a good thing. UX? How bad can good design be?
Can someone pass the sweet and sour sauce???
I’m pretty sure this is a WordPress.com related issue. But being subversive is fun too
I’ll go with subversive, also. It just sounds cooler.
geez…I feel so uncool and un-subversive. Despite being on WordPress, writing about China, and blogs, and even bikinis – SM still isn’t banned in China!!
We use WordPress but we host ourselves (unlike my Jobe Photo blog which is hosted by WordPress). That’s why we aren’t being blocked (yet) while other WordPress sites are.
I came accross another test tool which goes even further and provides comparison results between Chinese and non-Chinese cities, HTTP headers comparison, MTR tests, etc. – Test behind the Great Firewall of China
China firewall is lame – use Freedur.com to bypass it. You can bypass China Great Firewall and access youtube.com and all other sites which are blocked.