Welcome to the club! People need to remember that even though China has made some strides, the nation is still a communist ruled society. As long as they are still accepting of communist rule and until that changes, totalitarian tactics including extreme censorship will be the rule of the day. Information is the enemy there. To see and check other sites banned in China, this is an interesting site. http://greatfirewallofchina.org

i’d say you reached a fair conclusion, considering how things are still done in china. however, i take issue with one facet: you also have no readers in the entire continents of south america or africa and very little asian readership overall. perhaps this has more to do with the facts that your blog is in english and many people in the world don’t have internet access.

Timaree,

Your point is very valid and believe me, I considered it carefully. The hypothesis I formulated went something like this:

• Africa’s Internet infrastructure is so poor that generally speaking they don’t show up on anyone’s server logs. The same is true for places like North Korea where even cell phones are banned, or the Middle East.
• Although no dots show up in South America on the map my server log files still show visits from there. I just think they aren’t in quite high enough concentrations for Google to point them out.
• I don’t have a single entry in my log files from China, yet there is a very large population of people connected to the Internet there. Furthermore, China is about to become the world’s largest English speaking country, so there are plenty of people would could overcome the language barrier.

So, I guess I might have over-simplified the original post by basically showing the image as “proof”. The real proof was more definitive as reflected in the actual server stats but I didn’t want to bore everyone with the details.

John

fair enough reasoning. thanks for the explanation!

Interesting.
But what about India?
Does this mean Indian government is blocking one man’s blog as well?
No shortage of english speaking people there…

peter