Kaiser Kuo talks about the “death of the China blog” with Jeremy Goldkorn (Danwei) and Will Moss (Imagethief) in a Sinica podcast. Together, they discuss the loss of community among China bloggers and the decreased ratio of blogs’ substantive to recycled content. While changes in the China blogosphere over the years have brought some lamented changes, the podcast closes on one positive one — namely, better content and more diverse opinions available overall with the increased number of China blogs.
The China blog is officially dead, moribund, cadaverous, extinct, buried, bereft of life, defunct and totally-and-utterly-inert. It could even be said to be resting in peace, save for the fact that Will Moss drove a silver stake through its heart before recording this podcast. “We single-handledly made the China blog obsolete,” he joked in our studio after further sawing off its head. But he has a point. Because who reads blogs these days?
Read also reactions from Richard Burger (Peking Duck) and Jeremiah Jenne (Jottings from the Granite Studio).
