Bullog.cn
{{Short description|Chinese blogging website}}
{{Infobox Website
| name = bullog.cn (牛博网)
| logo =
| caption =
| url = http://www.bullog.cn
| type = blogging website
| language = Chinese
| registration =
| founder = Luo Yonghao
}}
Bullog.cn ({{zh|s=牛博网}}) was a Chinese-language blogging website, created by Chinese internet celebrity Luo Yonghao. Before it was shut down, it was considered to be one of the most liberal blog portals in Chinese cyberspace.[http://www.boxun.us/news/publish/chinanews/Liberal_Mainland_Website_Shutdown.shtml Liberal Blog Site Shutdown by Chinese Authorities] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528053016/http://www.boxun.us/news/publish/chinanews/Liberal_Mainland_Website_Shutdown.shtml|date=May 28, 2009}}, Boxun News, January 9, 2009.
History
Bullog.cn was founded by Luo Yonghao in 2006, because of his dissatisfaction with the censorship of the major blog portals like sina.com, sohu.com.[http://luoyonghao.blog.sohu.com/1655388.html Luo Yonghao's blog] The Chinese name, 牛博网 (simplified), 牛博網 (traditional), which literally means "Bull Blog Net", appears to be a word play on the word "Blog", since Bull means strong and excellent in colloquial Chinese.
Bullog.cn started by inviting bloggers whom Luo Yonghao personally liked, who turned out to have a strong preference for liberal and scientific points of view. Both were controversial stances in China, and both caused troubles inside and outside the website.{{cn|date=October 2023}}
On October 19, 2007, Bullog.cn was shut down, supposedly due to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. It was re-opened in April 2008. Luo started an international version of the website, bullogger.com, during that period.{{cn|date=October 2023}}
In May 2008, after the Wenchuan earthquake, Luo started a fund raising campaign in Bullog.cn, and delivered the donations to the refugees with the Bullog team and other volunteers.{{cn|date=October 2023}}
On January 9, 2009, Bullog.cn was shut down again, reportedly due to claims by the Chinese government that it hosted "harmful comments on current affairs".{{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWnevrdW9bQ6A502eXZLl1ptzn0AD95JMQC80|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122031112/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWnevrdW9bQ6A502eXZLl1ptzn0AD95JMQC80|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 22, 2009|title=Edgy China blog site shut amid Internet porn sweep |date=9 Jan 2009|publisher=Associated Press}} A successor site, bullogger.com, is now hosted overseas.{{cite news|publisher=Associated Press|title=Chinese blogger stabbed after public reading|date=2009-02-16|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/16/entertainment/e023957S54.DTL&tsp=1}}
Notable bloggers
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170630104306/http://www.bullog.cn/ Bullog.cn] (Original official website, closed)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090125131650/http://bullogger.com/ bullogger.com] (International successor site)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090118230401/http://bullog.org/ The shanzhai Bullog] a RSS of some bulloggers when the main site is down
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