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What's the real benchmark on China's blogosphere

Xiao qiang's article on 'New Scientist" raised a lot of discussions in Slashdot community, as well in China's blogosphere. Apprearantly, three different types of voices can be seen in both English and Chinese space:

- Blog struggles in China like other internet phenomena(BBS, etc.), it's so skeptical to this space
- Blogging in China is mixture of opportunities and problems, depends on how you use it
- China's blogosphere is as great as other blogosphere, no criticism

I strongly support diversified viewpoints to China's blogosphere since I'm a learning technology researcher. People no exception construct his own perceptions with previous knowledge("Constructivism"). The 'worlds' are totally different with different benchmarks. But I personally prefer the second understanding of this space. Blog can be seen as a saw, but it should be tested on woods back and forth. Any blogosphere will endure some test, a test on "bottom-up v.s. top-down" world view, the two different social organizing structure. I like reading the essay, "The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head" by James F. Moore. We know Fortunetely, we can put more hopes with more personal enabling technologies, including blog, Social Software, etc.

Someones said Zheng, me and other cnblog guys lighted up the torch of China's blogosphere. We did not, neither anyone else in my mind. Becuase blogging is not a controllable stuff in minorities' hand. It belongs to common people. From day one of CNBlog.org, we encourage people to register at once on blogger.com, and create their own blog in minutes. So CNBlog.org is not a center, neither a portal, it always follows it's base principle, "Blog on blog for Chinese". On Cnblog's blog, we respect posts from guest bloggers. We never 'reedit' or 'remove' any post from it's birth, even to those flame disputes. Some guys blogged to complain Dan Gillmor and Xiao Qiang ignored more wide voices of China's blogosphere. As I know, they are eager to know more from different sources instead of just listen to few 'famous' names.

Via del.icio.us, Xiao Qiang's article was seen bookmarked by many people around the world. I regard it as a historian writing, without solutions to the problems we are all asking everyday. We can't predict the future, because it changes too chaotically to be predicted. Also we don't need predicate the future, because we are creating it, harnessing the power of grassroots.