China blocks Blog*Spot!. According to a latest report published on reuters.com, China has blocked access to Blog*Spot, which is used by more than one million people worldwide to post on-line diaries, blogs, etc.

The U.S.-based “blogspot” Web site, has been inaccessible through Chinese networks for a week, Chinese bloggers claimed.

Jason Shellen, business development director at Silicon Valley-based Pyra Laboratories which runs the site blogspot.com, says “This is not due to a technical problem.”

Read more about it here.

We aren’t separated from each other by six degrees, after all!. Stanley Milgram invented the term “six degrees of separation” after discovering in an experiment how closely interconnected social networks can be. The “six degrees” concept also inspired a play, a film, and a party game. The original study has recently attracted criticism, but now sociologists at Columbia University are planning to re-do the study over the Internet, using e-mail forwarding. Volunteers can sign up here.
[via Metafilter]