Blogs on Blogspot, the Google-owned blog hosting service, are accessible again in China today.
This is the latest episode the Net Nanny’s long and silly on-again off-again harassment of Blogspot.
The RSS feed managing site Feedburner, also owned by Google, is also working again in China, which makes one suspect that someone at Google had a word with somebody at Nanny Central.
Unfortunately, this coincides with blogs on the paid service Typepad being blocked. Nanny works in mysterious ways.
This seems like a timely moment to review popular English language websites that are currently inaccessible in China. Please feel free to add to this list in the comments.
UPDATE (January 15): False alarm: both Blogspot and Feedburner are once again inaccessible in China.
NANNY’S LITTLE LIST
Blocked sites
Typepad blogs—although Typepad.com itself does not seem to blocked
Partially blocked or filtered
Large parts of the BBC website are unaccessible
Flickr—some photos on older servers do not load properly
Google.com’s Image Search and News are unreliable in China and seem to be heavily filtered
Slightly unreliable but probably nothing to with Net Nanny
Danwei readers occasionally report that Facebook is ‘acting like its blocked’, but to our knowledge it has never actually been blocked