An interesting insight into China and the Web.

" February 16 -- A top official from China's official agency in charge of press and publishing suggested in an interview with the overseas edition of China's official People's Daily that China's unique cultural character made it particularly suited to the development of a Web-based economy, and that he expected the country's Web economy to surpass that of many Western countries. "

After a few day of stuffing little red envelopes with lucky 'lai see' money and myself with dumplings and taking in the always outstanding HK Harbour fireworks it was a relief to catch something other than Year of the Pig fare and find 'Sage Brennan's THIS WEEK IN CHINA'.

His comment on the overwhelming prevalence of bulletin board systems BBS still dominating China's internet culture has motivated me to look further into the use of BBS's to cut thru the noise created by blogging and gaming to better appreciate where exactly consumer tastes & sensibilties lie.

After surfing a few that I found I'm in agreement with him [ that reading BBS's in China, that ] ..."It's one way to cope with an exploding market ...   more »