Nicely Made in China (http://nicelymadeinchina.com), one of our favorite Beijing-based blogs, just celebrated its one-year anniversary yesterday.

The website, which seeks out quality products and services in China, was met with much skepticism at the time of its inception. With all the recent scandals to rock the nation, from melamine-tainted milk to lethal pet food, public faith in Chinese manufacturing had been thoroughly shaken.

Beijing’s magazines aren’t the only ones dishing out the awards and recommendations when it comes to dining. The blogosphere has chimed in with their thoughts on restaurants, as well as some feedback to keep us on our toes. Check out our awards and compare them with the responses they elicited from some of Beijing's favorite bloggers.

The bloggers: Music blogger BeijingDaze offers insight on the awards as well as a list of his top spots for the year. Sports and food writer A Modern Lei Feng offered comparisons with our results, as did foodie and photographer LumDimSum. Blogger and a guest for our expert picks, Shelley Jiang, includes some additional categories with a more Chinese and regional twist. BeijingBoyce threw in some insight on the "ballot stuffing" controversy of reader-voted awards.

The “style blog” phenomenon has exploded across the web. Whereas before we could only preview the latest trends via runway shows and magazine spreads, we can now see a vast range of interpretations – and on real people, not pin-thin supermodels.

Some of the more popular ones, like The Sartorialist and Facehunter, also give us a peek into the dress sense of fashion insiders, such as those featured below.

2010 saw plenty happen in Beijing and the Beijinger blog was there all through the year, charting the best and worst of what the city had to throw at us. As usual restaurants and bars came and went, Beijingers saw some great music and missed out on a whole lot more (at least of the foreign variety), continued to battle unending pollution, and were offered the world’s worst theme park. The fate of the area around Gulou hung in the balance all year and endless food safety scandals did the rounds.

Blogs have come along way in the past few years. What used to be little more than online diaries, photo collections and video links have now become battlefields strewn with information, opinion and passion. Beijing’s blogs are no exception, and while blogs come and go, those that remain provide a wealth of insight on all things China.

Looking for some insight on being a China entrepreneur or just some additional knowledge on economics and business in China? The Beijing blog "Managing the Dragon" provides information on "business in China - From the ground up". The blog also successfully translates dull businessnews into stories of human interest that can be followed by even the most economic-incompetent. Agenda sat down with Jack Perkowski to find out exactly how to manage that daunting Chinese dragon.

For over 30 years, Parisian Lionel Derimais dedicated his life to taking photos around the world, from Tokyo to New York to London. His photographs have appeared in publications like National Geographic, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Fortune Magazine and more. Now he is expanding beyond photography and into blogging. His recently established Nicely Made in China blog – available in English, Chinese and French – highlights all the quality products and services springing up around town. Agenda caught up with him for a chat about his passion for photography and why good things are so hard to find.

Check out this new blog, Haw Berries and Kumquats, a great read for the food-loving Beijinger. The posts, complete with beautiful food photography, range from recipes to specialty food shopping guides.

There are as many China blogs as there are tomes about the PRC lining bookshop shelves. As of today there’s another one to add your RSS Feeds: china/divide.

Honestly, none of us expect Bob Dylan can actually play in Beijing when Oasis became cool enough to be banned to play here. But sometimes the story is more complicated than raging against the machines, here are the latest updates for the expected Bob Dylan show in Beijing on April 4.