West Coast code meets Far East code

Thanks to Mr Person at Text Savvy, I’ve just learned that this blog is blocked in China:




Images from the Great Firewall of China test.

I don’t know if that’s good or bad. From a censorship point of view, it’s bad, but it’s certainly interesting to be able to say that the blog’s blocked in China, even if it’s just for a rather prosaic reason (using Wordpress?) as Mr Person suggests, and not the incendiary demagoguery contained within these posts and comments.

(Additionally interesting is that as the whole of danlockton.co.uk seems to be blocked, I might not have any more of my portfolio items appearing on Chinese design sites. One site even had me listed alongside Karim Rashid for a while, which was odd and flattering, perhaps, though I don’t think he’ll be losing sleep over it!)

5 Responses to “West Coast code meets Far East code”


  1. 1 lawrence

    I’m in Beijing and I can access your site. (ISP: China NetCom.)

  2. 2 lawrence

    Incidentally, Text Savvy seems to be blocked here.

  3. 3 Karolina

    I am in Shanghai and I can access your site (apparently! :) so don’t worry ’bout that!
    greetz from china, karolina

  4. 4 Karolina

    btw nice blog!

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