Gordon of the Horse’s Mouth just e-mailed me news that China’s ban on TypePad blogs has been lifted. He also posts:

It looks like TypePad hosted blogs are now back online, polluting the cyberworld with free thoughts.
I was starting to go blind from sitting here trying to organize the more than 300 photos that I took during my weekend trip into the mountains when I decided to take a break and browse through some of the updated blogs in my RSS reader. To my surprise, ALL of the blogs that I sift through on a daily basis were now updating - Typepad blogs, too!
So, I decided to try it out. I opened my blog, started clicking on all of the TypePad blog links that have been blacklisted for the last week and sure enough, they’re up and functioning again.
Sorry Blogspot, it looks like you still have to stand in the corner awhile longer.

It’s not quite all of TypePad that has been restored. He notes that Rebecca McKinnion’s blog (RConversation) is still blocked.

Confirmed from here in Shanghai, AsiaPundit, Glutter and Andres Gentry can all be read. RConversation and Lost Nomad (hosted by TypePad under the ‘blogs.com’ domain) cannot be accessed without proxies.

The ban first hit blogs hosted under TypePad domains and later extended to ‘blogs.com.’ I’m hoping that the ban on those will soon be lifted and that what we are now seeing is a reverse snowball effect. Another theory would be that whatever inspired the initial block was something posted on a ‘blogs.com’ site and that the full TypePad ban was just a step taken in shutting down that particular part of TypePad.

Those wanting to see if their site is blocked in this part of China (Shanghai) can also check using this trace route page.