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By: JR Woodward - Dream Awakener » Blog Archive » The Rise of the East in the Blogosphere: BoingBoing Gets Bumped from #1 by Xu Jinglei’s Blog

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:35:14 +0000

[...] BoingBoing has reigned as the #1 most popularly linked blog at technorati as long as I can recall. But today for first time since I have noticed, it has been surpassed by Xu Jinglei’s Blog – a famous Chinese actress and director, who seems to blog about her personal thoughts, films and career. China Web 2.0 stated that Xu Jinglei’s blog had "over 10 million page views just about 100 days after its launch." Here is a translated entry from Jinglei’s blog, entitled Seeing is Believing (Thanks to Google Translate. I’ve noticed that sometimes Google Translate doesn’t work properly, so you may have to put in the site address yourself to read the blog entry in English). This particular entry had 206,610 reads at the time of my checking, with 2,759 comments. [...]

By: Ranjan AMARASEKARA

Ranjan AMARASEKARA — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:43:14 +0000

We are located in Sri Lanka.

We are looking for some BPO work.

Even online work such as Data entry , invoicing etc.

Await response.

Thanks,

Ranjan Amarasekara
http://www.ciahomejobs.com

By: oneandhalf

oneandhalf — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:08:18 +0000

as you said, Chen Tong’s viewpoint was just another case for PR and media exposure, I really agreed to this.

btw, he got expelled from sina last month, didn’t he?

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http://www.oneandhalf.com

By: Riding Sun

Riding Sun — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:12:38 +0000

We’ll be taking your ad revenue, thank you…

Chinese Internet company Sina runs a service that hosts blogs for free, like Blogger. Xu Jinglei, a popular actress, launched a blog on Sina. It started getting impressive traffic — 10 million pa……

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:16:34 +0000

The revenue share idea does make sense.

As for “If Sina gets a portion or all of the revenue, then there is no motivation for the content creator to post content to his/her blog!”, it is rather far from the blog’s first motivation, which is self-expression / self-promotion and certainly not earning money.
This materialistic view is actually a bit sad.

On “look West for business models”, I don’t think there is any successful blogging business model in the US at the moment, and I am afraid that Chinese companies and users might find out before westerners, as they experiment a lot.

In any case, users will decide the extent of the success for each model. Find one most like and you’ll be a rich man!

By: Paul Denlinger

Paul Denlinger — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:40:27 +0000

It is so silly to argue about this; of course it should be the person who posted the content who gets the revenue!

If Sina gets a portion or all of the revenue, then there is no motivation for the content creator to post content to his/her blog! In that case, anyone who posts content to any Sina blog should be paid as an employee of Sina, because Sina gets all the revenue from the blog advertising.

Is Sina willing to pay all bloggers on its blogs as employees? If they are, how much are they willing to pay?

If Sina wants to charge money for hosting, then they can do that. In the US, hosting companies charge about $5.95 per month per blog.

The only thing everyone has to do is look at the business model which has been used in the US and the rest of the world.