Reddit reviews Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009 (Writing Art)

I think he had some influence when he collected and openly announced the names of over 5000 children who died in an earthquake (which the Chinese media called a minor accident) in a blog that was read (at the best times) about 50.000 times a day. Can't link to the source but it's in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Ai-Weiweis-Blog-Interviews-2006-2009/dp/0262015218

There you can also see that neither in China, nor internetionally, only here on reddit, he is most well known for fucking a stuffed animal.