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2005-01-06

How "Blog" is being hijacked in China

There was an "olds"(not "news") appeared on one/two traditional Chinese media that "Blogchina.com accquired blogdriver.com to become the no.1 IT portal in China". Sounds strange why blog hosting can become IT portal? You idiot, including me. It's a Chinese style.

blogchina.com is a website in news article format since 2002. It's the first time that the "blog" name was hijacked for more than two years since blogchina.com didn provide any blog related services until June, 2004. But this time blog is still an accessory to support blogchina's central media function. Bloggers under blogchina.com can only see how their posts are copied to the homepage free of charge without any clear licence. Blogchina.com are also widely criticized to copy other bloggers' content without any permission even those bloggers put clear "Creative Commons- Non-commercial" on their site. Fortunetely to blogchina.com, it's too high price to sue such small copyright cases in China. The second time, "blog" was hijacted to serve for fewer's benefit.

Comparing to this new 'incident', last two times of 'crime' just gangs on street. More bloggers on blogdriver.com have to change their free writing to blogchina's "writing for benefit" myth. Blog, is always a grassroots media rather than a centrailzed media. Even most of today's blogs are hosted in different hosting service, they are logically free and controlled only by blogger himserf/herself. All the young bloggers(no more than 7 months) on blogchina.com don't know they are "controlled" by a centralized myth for some individual benefits. All the blogdriver.com users have to be "hijacted" to this trap becuase they don't have any rights to choose.

zheng posted on cnblog yesterday just along the "olds". Some guys thought it's also about "imnotboke". Yes, and No. "Imnotboke" is not about the translation of "Blog/Blogger" into Chinese, it's based on the truth to grassroots and free culture. The hijack incident falls into the same category of thinking. Why no at the same time? zheng is a true man never post from his person benefit. He even criticized one of portfolio companies my business invested. I like his calling a spade a spade. He won't stay in just a "imnotboke" to discuss a broad concept.

The hijack is happening, I believe more and more bloggers can understand the cultural differences and choose their choices, freely. I'm happy seeing there are still many choices for fresh bloggers, anyway, there are already tens of blog hosting services already in this country.

posted by im # 8:48 AM

Comments:

Blogdriver.com will be kept as a BLog service Provider, continue providing blog hosting service to China's Internet users.

"More bloggers on blogdriver.com have to change their free writing to blogchina's "writing for benefit" myth. "

I don't know where you get this but this is totally misunderstanding! liang and I was expecting your respect and wishes for our new step. I do think you know business much better than we do, and we will keep push up the BLog and Grassroots movement in China.

But we can't afford to this kind of criticism with misunderstanding. thanks

# posted by

Kevin : 5:14 PM

Kevin, it's not a good deal from a whole. It will drag you guys into an unchangable direction. My suggestion is clearly expressed on cnblog.

BTW, I don't want to express any unrespectful to you and team. Just take it easy.

# posted by

im : 6:09 PM

Thanks, I just want to clarify some points, I believe we both understand each other through our long blogging life. :) As we talked before, I will try to pull something back from now on. but the result may not be ensured.

# posted by

Kevin : 7:37 PM

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