January 22, 2005

china net

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From the BBC:

The Chi­nese net-using popu­la­tion looks set to exceed that of the US in less than three years, says a report.
China’s net users num­ber 100m but this repre­sents less than 8% of the country’s 1.3 billion peo­ple.
Mar­ket analysts Pan­lo­gic pre­dicts that net users in China will exceed the 137 million US users of the net by 2008.

As I’m hoping to leave for Asia on March 1st [Malay­sia, more spe­ci­fi­cally], I find this encou­ra­ging.
A lot of peo­ple are rea­ding The Hugh­train. A dis­pro­por­tio­na­tely small num­ber of them live in the UK. The lon­ger I’m here, the less that sur­pri­ses me.

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5 Responses to “china net”

  1. chelsea says:

    Which country you will visit in Asia? I wish you have a good trip in March ; )

  2. cynthia says:

    yeah but aren’t most sites bloc­ked in china? i’m sur­pri­sed yours isn’t, you capi­ta­list pig! :)

  3. hugh macleod says:

    I’m going to Kuala Lum­pur, Malay­sia.
    I have no idea how many sites are bloc­ked in China. I guess I’ll fond out when I get there.

  4. ult says:

    You may be sur­pri­sed (or not) how actual are your words and ideas here in Rus­sia. Thanks, and keep the spi­rit up!

  5. j says:

    KL will be good, as will be the mar­ket in S’Pore in my opi­nion. Let us know if you’ll stop over in Bali anytime…