Bloggers join heads in Guangdong

• Source: Global Times
• [03:19 November 09 2009]
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By Zhang Lei

Bloggers from China and overseas convened in the city of Lianzhou, South China's Guangdong Province Sunday to chitchat about how instant communication is changing the world.

More than 150 people attended the 5th Chinese Bloggers Conference (CBC), under the theme of "micro power and a broader world."

The two-day event focused on micro-blogging and the application of web 2.0 technology, with a variety of topics of common interests to all.

The blogger conference, initiated five years ago in Shanghai, attracted geeks, bloggers, entrepreneurs, media workers, lawyers, researchers and students who talked about the development of the Internet in China.

"We intend to have different voices in the meeting, not only from the opinion leaders," Isaac Mao, co-organizer of the CBC, told the Global Times Sunday.

Popular academicians, bloggers, Twitter users, and workers from non-governmental organizations attended.

Micro-bloggers shared their experiences about instant communication and how it touched their lives.

"My friend from abroad can get to know the real China from my tweets," said David Feng, a Swiss citizen of Chinese ancestry in Beijing.

Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Journalist from CNN, told the audience that they are not only netizens from China, but they're connected to a global society.

"Netizens have rights and responsibilities to concern and participate in the development of the Internet," she said.