I was having such a wonderful day — and then I came home to find Danwei.org reporting that Wikipedia is now blocked in China. By now, I’m used to not being able to read the BBC, but with Blogspot slowly becoming available here — though still not on my dialup connection at home — I foolishly thought that they might be loosening up a bit. Of course, the only reason they’re making Blogspot accessible is because they want to be friendly with its owner.

It’s not the first thing to be blocked or shut down in the last few weeks. As EastSouthWestNorth (ESWN) reported, local coverage of the events in Taishi Village, Guangdong on the Yannan Forum at Beijing University led to it getting closed down to be “totally renovated”.

In related news, Danwei posted this link earlier in the week, under the headline “Wanna be a journalist in China?”. I think I need tea.