No-nonsense China Expat Blog

For all those that missed the hoopla of the 2007 edition of the China Blog Awards, your chance to jump on the bandwagon has passed my friend. The awards are officially over.

Chinalyst hosted the awards, with open voting during the month of July on any blog signed up in the Chinalyst system.

The army of trained rhesus monkeys that were put in charge of tallying up all the votes for the China Blog Awards have finally returned our calls, and the winners are…

Best China Business & Law Blog: China Law Blog (584 votes)
Best General China Blog: Sinocidal (289 votes)
Best China News Blog: The Opposite End of China (201 votes)
Best Personal China Blog: …

I love comments. Love how they add a depth of interaction with a readership that you could not have in traditional media. I think it’s awesome. However, net nannies of the world have a strong case for the need of an Internet tidy-up if you look at your average cross-section of comments on various China blogs and forums.

A trip to the China Daily is all around a good joke. If not for the “news”, then for the comments that come out of their forums. Stupid, vicious and vile are just a few adjectives I can attach to them.

As I run a couple blogs, I’m no stranger to them myself, but even I was left mouth open and wondering what the …