… reports that University Diaries is blocked in China.
UD checked it out.
… [The ban on] WordPress in China could have been lifted had [the company] agreed to block certain words or topics and give up information to the Chinese communist government about [WordPress] users.
… Unlike other [internet] giants, WordPress took a more ethical stand[,] refusing to comply with the Chinese diktats[,] and WP blogs therefore still remain blocked in China. The situation is likely to stay the same forever unless China relaxes their censorship laws which again sounds like a remote possibility.
However:
… RSS feeds [allow you to] read any blog using a web based feed … even if the main WordPress site is blocked.
In case of WordPress blogs, you can append the string “.nyud.net” to the blog URL and it should open just fine. For instance, if the main blog is located at labnol.wordpress.com, you can access a mirror image of this site from labnol.wordpress.com.nyud.net.
Note that at the top of this page there’s a Subscribe to UD’s Feeds feature. That should work.