Not blogging from China. Heheh.
Well, at most of the places I’ve been the past few days my blog (and all blogs on the wordpress.com domain) is blocked so I haven’t been able to post, or even read my blog.
But I’ve been posting a ton over on Twitter and on FriendFeed. Both of those sites are totally available in China and are fast. Many other blogs are blocked here in China too. Huffington Post, for instance, isn’t available.
The censorship here is somewhat easy to get around, if you have a proxy server available outside of China.
Anyway, I’m on using one of those servers right now, so am going to do a quick post.
Embedded here is a video of Gary Rieschel of qimingventures.com, the cofounder of Softbank Capital, who shows me a new company he invested in that makes interactive screens in taxis.
More to come when we can sneak through the great firewall of China but in the meantime you should watch my FriendFeed account for more photos, accounts, and videos.
We had a great time in Shanghai, but now are in Shenzhen where I am interviewing “Mr. China” (that’s what an article in the Atlantic called him) Liam Casey (he’s one of the top supply chain managers in the world).
More later.
Powered By 
November 10th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
3 cheers for leveraging proxy servers to bypass censorship ;)
November 11th, 2008 at 1:33 am
did you ever tried using UltraSurf??
http://www.ultrareach.com/
November 11th, 2008 at 6:44 am
It’s interesting that the company I work for can so effectively block YouTube, MySpace and Facebook as well as all the ways to get there like third party proxy services, yet the Chinese government hasn’t figured it out!
November 11th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Hey - I live in China so I totally get the blocked blogs thing. Mine’s sometimes available, sometimes not. :-P
November 13th, 2008 at 8:24 am
what a cool way of ..interactive narrowcasting.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
[...] Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Not blogging from … [...]
November 25th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Are you still in ShenZhen? I read this article late, I live in ShenZhen. May be, we could meet.
November 25th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Ugur, nope, sorry, we’re back home now.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I’m in China in the new year and would like to npost to my usuals (Jaiku, Rejaw, Flickr etc. Is there an easy way to find what is blocked? and for a non-techie like me how do you get round this?
Also, are news sites all blocked (BBC, CNN etc)? I will only be posting from hotel wi-fi etc