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I’m Blind!

Categories: Web UsagePosted on November 4th, 2006

There’s a few websites I can’t access in China, such as as Technorati, several blogs such as Scoble’s, and all Blogspot/blogger blogs. Interesting to see what is visible and what is not.

Note: For those of you new to blogging, the reason I say I’m blind is that Technorati tells me who’s linking to me and who’s talking about me or back to me, it’s very important to know as blogging a conversation. Robert Scoble is a friend of mine, I refer and read his site frequently, and I use blogger to publish several blogs.

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14 Responses to “I’m Blind!”

Very interesting to follow your trip back to your roots in China. Beautiful pictures! You say: “all blogspot blogs”. I’m using Blogger but FTP to my own domain, so I’m curious if you can reach my blog in China: http://www.trendmatcher.nl
Would be great to know, although not many Chinese will speak Dutch…
Have a nice time, and I hope that after being blind you’ll see the light again:-)

Posted by Willem on November 4th, 2006 at 5:51 pm

Yes I can see your blog, it must be sites hosted by blogger.com.

Thanks for enjoying the pictures!

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on November 4th, 2006 at 6:03 pm

Just curious … can you get rss feeds from likes of Scoble, and how about feedburner feeds?

Posted by Colin Henderson on November 4th, 2006 at 6:35 pm

Yeah my monkeynotions blog was blocked =( (I don’t think I say anything THAT excitng =) ). I remember I was able to go to Techcrunch, and I think I was able to get Scoble’s blog via bloglines…as there wasn’t any blog i could not get. Glad you are enjoying your trip =)

Posted by hollyster on November 4th, 2006 at 8:11 pm

What error message do you get?

Posted by Bess on November 4th, 2006 at 8:27 pm

It’s the typical 404 page.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on November 4th, 2006 at 8:36 pm

Jeremiah - can you get Scoble’s blog using the new http://scobleizer.com/ uri?

Posted by Tom Raftery on November 5th, 2006 at 3:37 am

Nope, that doesn’t work either.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on November 5th, 2006 at 7:31 am

Sometimes 404 page can tell you more detail on type of error. Did you turn on the browser option to show the error message detail? Can you capture a screen shot on error message?

Posted by Bess on November 5th, 2006 at 2:25 pm

So strange. You are not the only one can’t access his blog at http://scobleizer.com/. Me too! And I am in US. What is going on? I even try to access his blog via search engine instead of book mark.

Posted by Bess on November 5th, 2006 at 2:32 pm

Now his site is back on.

Posted by Bess on November 6th, 2006 at 2:17 am

Jeremiah - dunno why I didn’t think of this sooner - I’m going to share my Scobleizer feed with you from my Google Reader account - that should let you read his posts.

Here’s the Shared posts:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/03968214358396382778

and here’s a feed for the Share:
http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/03968214358396382778/state/com.google/broadcast

Hope this works for you,

Cheers,

Tom.

Posted by Tom Raftery on November 6th, 2006 at 6:12 am

[...] Jeremiah Owyang is on a trip to China at the moment. He put up a post on his blog the other day saying he couldn’t access Robert Scoble’s blog from inside China - it seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China for some reason. I don’t know if this applies to all WordPress.com accounts or just Robert’s. [...]

Posted by Can Google Reader scale the Great Firewall of China? at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views on November 6th, 2006 at 6:33 am

Thanks everyone for the thoughts and Tom for your login info to your reader.

I’m currently in Hong Kong (Which is not part of Mainland China but a seperate, special region) and I can see Scoble’s blog and blogger blogs just fine.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on November 6th, 2006 at 2:53 pm