UPDATE: My blog can be accessed in China. It’s just my recent post on Looking back at China” that’s causing the problems. That’s what one Beijing reader told me in an email, and Emile writes in the comments:
I can reach it fine, however your post about the purpose of yout blog
etc. probably contains a fair amount of keywords big nanny doesn’t like,
so from here in Beijing the page will stop loading after a while (any
page with that many keywords – the page of the post and the main page as
long as that post is still on it). I have to go through a proxy to read
the whole thing.So people from China going to your main page may only see half of it. I
use bloglines so I hardly ever see the main page, I go directly to the
sub-pages.
I find this incredibly stupid, but I’ll have to live with it.
I’m being told by three separate friends in Beijing that my site isn’t loading there. I thought it was a problem on my end because I had trouble getting onto my site tonight, but now it’s fine. If anyone has any problems or theories, please email me. The Chinese government wouldn’t bother trying to block this little site — would they?
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By Emile
I can reach it fine, however your post about the purpose of yout blog etc. probably contains a fair amount of keywords big nanny doesn’t like, so from here in Beijing the page will stop loading after a while (any page with that many keywords – the page of the post and the main page as long as that post is still on it). I have to go through a proxy to read the whole thing.
So people from China going to your main page may only see half of it. I use bloglines so I hardly ever see the main page, I go directly to the sub-pages.
April 5, 2004 @ 11:33 pm | Comment
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By Andrés
No problems loading your page here near Shanghai.
April 6, 2004 @ 12:17 am | Comment
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By Fons Tuinstra
no problems in Shanghai
April 6, 2004 @ 1:26 am | Comment
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By Joseph Bosco
All pages loads fine here in Beijing; and the writing is of course pristine and substantive as always.
April 6, 2004 @ 5:04 am | Comment
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By Anonymous
did have problems with your site- content didn’t load- rebooted and was OK afterwards- in shanghai
April 6, 2004 @ 9:14 am | Comment
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By Eric
No problems loading in Shijiazhuang.
April 6, 2004 @ 10:05 am | Comment
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By tuck
your site loads fine here in xiamen.
i have, however, been experiencing many strange half-loads when trying to visit other pages (of all varieties)- pages that when viewed through a proxy jump right up in full. anyone else been experiencing this kind of thing over the last two weeks?
April 6, 2004 @ 10:18 pm | Comment
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By Emile
I had the half loads a few days back, now I find I can load the “sensitive” pages without problem.
I have no idea how their system works. I’ve noticed half-loads before, almost systematically when the content was sensitive 9and the fact that it was suddently doing it both for the post and the main page was a big clue).
April 7, 2004 @ 2:43 am | Comment