Friday, April 09, 2004




Isaac

Some kids blogs in China 


I used to watch on the development of China's blogsphere every day with Aggregator. Now, I can use Grasshopper(a stronger search bot from Grassland, the Chinese Blog Search Engine) to do that watching over hundreds of blogs. There are many interesting linkages and rings explored from the content, as well demographics in it. Now share with you some kids blogs here:

- Happy Baby(快乐贝贝) --- a nine year old boy
- Skewbald Tiger(花斑虎) --- an nine eight year old girl
- Growing footprint(成长的足迹) --- a boy
- Day day up(天天向上) --- a boy
- mick --- a 12 year old taiwan boy

I also collected some bloggers over 16 , butnot sure if' they can be counted into kids cicle. Anyone provides more?



Thursday, April 08, 2004




Isaac

Final announcement by Fons about Bloggercon Shanghai, 4/17 


Webloggers’ portal Living in China and the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club will host a meeting in Shanghai at Saturday evening and Sunday morning 17/18 April that will coincide with the Bloggercon II that will take place at the Harvard Law School in the United States. At the third floor of Sasha’s you will be able to follow three of the more interesting sessions through a webcast (audio only), follow examples of live-blogging from Sasha’s and Harvard on a screen and participate in chatrooms surrounding the meeting at Harvard. You can find the full schedule here and bring your own laptop: Sasha’s has its own free wireless connection, but you might have to bring your own extension cord.

In another part of the room you will be able to meet foreign correspondents, media people and webloggers from Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzou and San Francisco. Drinks will be available for 30 Rmb and finger food will be for free.

Our schedule looks as follows (but feel free to bring your own laptop and deviate from our schedule):

The meeting room will be available from 7:30 PM, while official activities start around 8:00 PM

8:00 PM-8:15PM: short introduction by the Shanghai organizers
8:15 PM – 8:45 PM: National Anthem, opening remarks by Dave Winer
Session 1: 9:00 PM – 10.15 PM: What is Journalism? Moderated by Jay Rosen
Session 2: 10:30 PM- 11:45 PM: Blogging as a Business, by Jeff Jarvis

Break from 11:45PM – 1:30 AM we will use for the introduction of some of the participants, discussion about the items that have come up and proposals for a follow up.

Session 3: 1:30 AM – 2:45 AM: Creating a global cyber common, by Rebecca MacKinnon

* More information, please visit the offical site at livingchina.com: http://www.livinginchina.com/archives/000743.html

* If you want to join this fascinating event, please contact Fons at: http://www.chinaherald.net



Tuesday, April 06, 2004




Isaac

Hello, English BOB 


I will never forget the first day's post on Chinese edition of "Blog On Blog" when cnblog.org first introduced to public in 2002, "Let more bloggers join us, let thousands of diversified bloggers appear in China". Fortunetely, we are not disappointed about today's development of Chinese blogsphere, as well cnblog.org itself. We kept our promise on the style of grassroots, free culture and open speech. And for sure, we wont's stop. We will be still exploring the spirit of blogging, the inspiration and motivation behind this amazing learning tool, publishing tool and reflection tool.

Today, cnblog.org is evolving into SocialBrain.org. We strongly believe that blog will eventually emerge into the big picture of social software, that socialbrain.org is targetting. However, we won't intentionally lower the priority of Blog. Blog is always developing itself with continuous blogging(thus many innovations) by millions of bloggers. What we should do now is to create more channels to tell the world there is big enough blogsphere in the world besides English one. We'd try to expand the possibilities to bridge the two sphere by forstering more bi-directional links. This ideas is firstly proposed by owen(aka WenXin) before he joined SocialBrain team recently. We didn't hesitate any more since it's really neccessary a step. Now, you see, BOB English edition is born.

We shall put more stones on this new road, try to plant some grass and flowers at road side, and sometimes sit down enjoying the scene along the road.... It's a new start, 0 miles, from today on.






Owen

Blog on Blog - CNblog.org English portal 


“Blog On Blog” is a new project organized by CNblog.org Team. This is a brand-new information portal all about Chinese blogosphere, Blogger and Blogging activities. No doubt, all contents are made in China.

As we all know, CNblog.org is one of the most famous community weblog in China. It‘s focusing on promoting, sharing, transferring, and connecting information and Bloggers. There are lots of intelligent people getting involved in it; providing most trendy and valuable information. CNblog has a wise team with plenty of creativity and vitality. CNblog is leading some great project: Blogging Knowledge Blog, Chinese Weblog ring, Grassland RSS search engine, Social Software Wiki and Weblog encyclopedia etc.

So far, more than 3000 blogs have registered in CNblog weblog ring. The community grew very fast. More and more grassroot voices were released from here. We synchronized information from world wide blogosphere, to bring the most emerging news and trend to Chinese bloggers. Now, we would like to present our thoughts and movements to the world wide blogosphere. We are beginning this project to communicate most recent changes and movements in Chinese blogosphere in English to let other people know more about us.

We encourage Bloggers to join us. If you have basic English writing skill and know or interested in Blogging, please feel free to send us an Email and become a collaborative Author in this Blog.

Contact:
owen, email: wen-xin (at) msn dot com
Zheng, email: xeenet (at) hotmail dot com