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Explanation to "Chinese blog services' self-closing...."
Fons asked me in comments, "Any idea what is happening? Sounds like technical problems, since government officials mostly do not work in the weekend. But three at the same time is rather strange."

Some explanations: 1) The three sites are all running in non-commercial stage(they have to face the issue of commercializing, and/or how to commercialize). Thus the "services" are still free online communtiy of practise, though running a new concept of "blogging". 2) Since it's free and non-commercial, it's easier to be closed, while difficult to argue their rights. Even, besides gov's orders of shutting down, the web masters can make decisions by themselves on when to close and when to open. The users are ultimate sacrifice. 3) They are doing "blindman's buff" game with gov in the previous days, you know, it's easy to move domain to a temp site. However, when they heard some tight message happens in one site, they will have to choose close by themselves, again. 4) They are working on keywords filtering functions with their system. It's so called "self-regulation" that gov are happy to see. Future blogging experience of their users will be totally different from past. No any more congratulations from me, at least.