公司内网上的一个帖子让我想起了写这样一个话题，自己写Blog的历史也有一年半了，其间体验过多个Blog站点，这里说说体会，为那些开始想要写Blog的人提供些参考。

‘博客巴士’是我的第一个Blog站点，也是我最喜欢的一个国内Blog站点，而且目前仍然作为我的主力站点。最开始写Blog时，选择Blog站点很随意，Blogbus就是当时dreamhead介绍给我的。说实话，当时的Blogbus还处于起步阶段，站点访问速度很慢，功能也不够强大。甚至有很长一段时间Blogbus根本就访问不了，也就是在那个时候Blogbus损失了好多忠实blogger。那时我也准备迁移我的blog，并在’博客网’也就是以前的’博客中国’申请了自己的第二个Blog站点。在漫长的等待和尝试后，Blogbus终于恢复了，而且系统升级到了2.0，采用静态页面发布技术，访问速度超快，功能上也逐渐丰富，支持tag、群组等，其清新简洁的界面真是让我’爱不释目’，不久后Blogbus又升级到3.0，这以后一直到目前还没有发生大的’事故’。Blogbus简单清爽快捷，这就是我喜欢它的原因，我也向大家首推Blogbus。

在Blogbus’瘫痪’的那段时间，我曾经寄宿在’博客网’，当时的博客网无论在访问速度还是在功能上都还不错，我也曾想过在’博客网’扎根，看着博客网一天天的发展，博客网日益臃肿，其主页上充斥着大量的垃圾信息，让我从心底产生了一丝反感，感觉现在的博客网倒像是一个不合格的门户，真不知道博客网到底要走什么样的路。

提到IT技术Blog我们不能不提到国内最大的程序员网站CSDN提供的Blog。由于以前有CSDN的账户，经过简单操作就可以获得一个CSDN Blog空间。早期的CSDN Blog速度简直就像蜗牛，每天都看到论坛上对其的抱怨文字，我用了不到2星期，就彻底放弃了。这只是我早期的一些使用经历，听说现在的CSDN Blog也已经改进，而且作为国内最具影响力的IT技术网站，其访问量还是可观的，对于想写技术Blog的人这还是有一定吸引力的。

微软作为IT业巨头也没有忽视Blog的作用，它也提供了其Blog服务 – ‘MSN SPACES‘，只不过想访问微软的MSN SPACES必须有微软的Passport，看来微软在态度上显然不那么开放。对比其他的Blog服务提供商，’MSN SPACES’更加重视图片、音频和视频的服务。如果你是一个喜欢展示你个人靓照的人，MSN SPACES的相册空间足能满足你的需求。

有一段时间特想写英文Blog，恰好那时自己又在研究Java，遂到JRoller申请了一个空间。JRoller是一个Java Blogger的集散地，很多知名Java人都在此有足迹，如’Rickard Oberg‘等。我使用JRoller时唯一的不便之处就是其提供的Blog编辑器不是’所见即所得’的，你需要自己插入html符号来格式化你的文章内容。

‘Blogger’是世界上最早的Blog站点之一，用户量庞大。好像是在去年被Google收购了，本想在’Blogger’申请一个空间，但是发现自己总是访问不了’Blogger’中的Blog，总提示’Redirect to xxx.blogspot.com’，然后就静止不动了，真是遗憾。

‘Bloglines‘是我最近才发现并决定扎根的英文Blog站点，’Bloglines’不仅仅是一个单纯的Blog站点，它的独特之处在于它提供在线Feeds订阅功能，而以前我自己都是利用一些’新闻订阅客户端’程序来完成类似事情的，就这一点就可以让我立刻喜欢上它。

以上罗列的就是我所接触过的Blog站点，当然国内外Blog站点繁多，像国内的Blogdriver、Blogcn等由于我没有使用过而并未提及。

未写过blog的人总会问一个问题’为什么要写blog’?，如果让我来回答的话，我会说’它是我生活的一部分，就好比衣食住行’。

Last night I watched the ‘Dialogue’ , which is a very pop ‘talk show’ TV program of CCTV2.  the topic of this issue is ‘how to make the world know China’. Zhao Qi-zheng and He Dele were invited as honored guests.

So far, China has become the 6th largest economic entity in the world. but how much on earth does the world know China? I have been in BBC Learning English discusion group for several months and there was a topic on China last November. People from other place of the world, most of which did not come to China,  told their impression of China. In their mind, China is a large country with huge population, long history and it is a socialism country in which people are lack of political freedom and not well educated. Some people even do not know the relationship among Mainland, Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao. During the ‘Dialogue’, a guest told us a story. he said when he first arrived in America, an american told him he was not like a Chinese. he was amazing and asked the american why he felt like that. the american said Chinese should wear gown like the actor in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

all that above make a conclusion that the world does not know China enough or the world has a misunderstanding of China in some fields. Zhao Qi-zheng said the reason why the world know less of China is not simple. First of all, the Chinese character is difficult to study and understand. Compared to other characters in the world, Chinese charactor has more implications, which makes the traslation more hard and less accurate. Secondly, some media reports are not based on fact. The media here is a word in general, which includes TV, radio, paper, movie, internet and so on… For the some benefit some foreign media report negatively which makes some people misunderstand China. Last but not least, the behavior of some international corporations of China have a great direct influence on knowing China. these corps in foreign countries are representatives of China just like Mcdonald is a representiative of United States in China.

He Dele added a new point that reference book is also a tool to know China. As the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, he make his effort to make people around the world know a true China through the Encyclopaedia Britannica and now there are over 2000 issues about China collected in the book.

Making the world know China is not the responsibility of some people, but the responsibility of every Chinese people. Pay more attention to your daily life and you may find more chance to show a true China to the world.

[people]
Zhao Qizheng – the news office director of the council
He Dele – the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica

[new words to me]
anchorman – 新闻节目主持人
honored guest – 嘉宾
gown – 长袍