At present, it's still unclear how Xu Jinglei and sina.com will divide any advertising dividends. However, it is certain that internet blogging is here to stay in China. A recent survey, conducted among white-collar workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, showed that over fifty percent of these middle-classes are now keeping weblogs. The study also revealed that many use blogs as a way to release their emotions and to make their personal opinions public.
Here at CRI, we don't have quite the same resources available for a comprehensive study of lifestyle habits, but we did interview a few random people about blogging on the streets of Beijing:
1."I write blogs because I want to share my thoughts with other people."
2."Blog? No, I don't think I have time for that."
3. "If it's a diary, then why should I make my diary public?"
Well, it seems that where blogging is concerned, the public remains as divided as Sina and Xu Jinglei. And who knows if there will be an end to the latter dispute, but we are certainly at the end of this edition of "frontline". If you have any questions or suggestions about our program, please tell us by writing to English Service, China Radio International, Beijing China, postal code 100040. Or you can drop us an email at crieng@crifm.com. Or if you would like to listen to this program again, simply log on to our website at www.crienglish.com and follow the links. And finally, since we've discussing the internet on this and a previous edition of Frontline, let's keep the trend moving forward, with a quick burst of a very popular net song right now, called "lilac". For program producer Yao Yongmei, I'm Wujia, saying good-bye and thanks for listening, see you next week!
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