China continues its growth in the blogosphere with 20 Million strong and growing according to the Chinese Internet Association. While still pondering a strong move to cover the Chinese Blogosphere I’d like to note the Chinese blogosphere is heavily monitored by government sources while the US Blogosphere is barely monitored by corporate interests in the US. The correlation is interesting considering the harm that can be done on the blogosphere to a company.

It will be interesting to see if US companies begin to watch the global blogosphere more as plant workers, and factory workers for companies like Apple, Dell, and other tech companies and others begin to blog. Will companies shift to starting to pay attention to international bloggers?

The number of Internet bloggers in China reached 20.8 million at the end of 2006, with more than three million web-users regularly posting their writings, state press said. Web logs in China took 101 million hits in 2006, Xinhua news agency said, citing the China Internet Survey Report 2007. “Web logs have gradually developed into a new trend in Internet information communication, many public figures as well as ordinary people use web blogs … to express their thoughts,” the report quoted Huang Chengqing of the China Internet Association as saying.