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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!

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11 Responses to “Great FireWall of China blocks 60% of our blogroll!”

1. My blog is banned in China. « mattroberts.com, on March 14th, 2007 at 1:32 pm Said:

   [...] 14th, 2007 · No Comments Well here’s something that doesn’t happen every day. Mitch Brisebois has been checking on his SensoryMetrics Blogroll to see if they’re acceptable in China or more accurately are [...]

2. maggie fox, on March 14th, 2007 at 6:25 pm Said:

   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.

3. Mitch Brisebois, on March 14th, 2007 at 6:36 pm Said:

   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???

4. Banned in China! « InGeniusBlog.com, on March 14th, 2007 at 8:43 pm Said:

   [...] in China! Mitch Brisebois over at SensoryMetrics posted an interesting entry about a site where you can check to see if your website or blog is blocked in [...]

5. matt roberts, on March 15th, 2007 at 1:18 pm Said:

   I’m pretty sure this is a Wordpress.com related issue. But being subversive is fun too

6. Censur Net, on March 15th, 2007 at 1:45 pm Said:

   [...] here’s something that doesn’t happen every day. Mitch Brisebois has been checking on his SensoryMetrics Blogroll to see if they’re acceptable in China or more accurately are [...]

7. maggie fox, on March 15th, 2007 at 6:53 pm Said:

   I’ll go with subversive, also. It just sounds cooler.

8. Mitch Brisebois, on March 15th, 2007 at 7:46 pm Said:

   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!!

9. Jobe Roberts, on March 24th, 2007 at 11:31 am Said:

   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.

10. Ray S, on October 28th, 2007 at 9:26 am Said:

    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

11. Hey China, censor us again and the duck gets it! | SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience, on August 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm Said:

    [...] year and half ago we discovered that half our blogroll at Sensorymetrics was actually banned in China. Soon after writing about it, [...]

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