Typepad unblocked in China?

China's blogger space exploded last year and there are now over ">600,000 bloggers in China. As such, the phenomena cannot be ignored, especially since blogging is also used as a tool to report incidences to the outside world.

However, the country is still trying to impede the information flow that goes into China and one famous victim was Google.

In an apparent turnaround, the reach of bloggers into China just became easier, according to the China Herald, since the Chinese government freed the access to 'typepad' weblogs. "But the domain names of blogger.com, internationally the largest host of weblogs and owned by Google, remains blocked. Because weblogs can be hosted easy on other servers and many Chinese users that would surf outside China use so-called proxies, the effect of the so-called IP-blocks is fairly limited."

Will it change, anytime soon? Or do Chinese bloggers need to think about ways to circumvent the Chinese Wall?

(By Asia Business Consulting)