Asian Blog: ASIAN POP: Blogging Asia
What's makes an Asian blog Asian? That's what I wondered as I perused the nominees for Best Asian Weblog in this year's fifth annual Weblog Awards (also known as "the Bloggies") and the Top 100 List on Rice Bowl Journals, the popular "Asian online journal community." There were plenty of compelling blogs, but, beyond geography and popularity, they didn't seem to have much in...
Asian Blog: Meet the bloggers,
Participants at Singapore's first bloggers' convention will be able to check each other out
JULY will be a good time to play spot-the-blogger. These online diarists will be on show at Singapore's first bloggers' convention.Upfront and in the flesh, those at the convention can check out if the bloggers they read about look as good as their edited photographs, or chat them up to see if they are nice people.The organisers of the convention are the 11 editors of Singapore's only blog about blogs, tomorrow.sg.In just one month, the site has...
Asian Blog: Choc-a-blog,
Millions of people are going online to pour their heart and soul into cyberspace
A NEW blog is created every 7.4 seconds or about 12,000 new blogs a day, according to Technorati (www. technorati.com),a real-time blog search engine. It keeps track of what's going on in the world of blogs, otherwise known as the 'blogosphere'.Technorati also found that people who write blogs - update theirs regularly; there are about 275,000 posts daily, or about 10,800 blog updates an hour.Although the term 'weblog' was...
Asian Blog: dear online diary...
There are almost five million blogs - online diaries - in cyberspace as compared to two years ago when there were only 100,000, according to Technorati, a real-time blog search engine. A few weeks ago, the publishers of the Merriam-Webster dictionary officially announced that 'blog' - which is also commonly known as 'weblog' - was its word of the year for 2004.Singaporeans also blog, and their online diaries win awards, too. For instance, the...
Asian Blog: South China Morning Post:
Web awards launch gives Asia 'blogosphere' a global forum
Word of mouth is winning global attention for a Hong Kong-based internet commentator.Web-log author Phil Ingram last week launched the Asian Weblog awards, after noticing that Asian sites were losing out in similar contests in the United States. "The Asian blog scene is big enough and lively enough now to be able to depend on itself and not depend on the US. It's amazing how much good stuff there is in Asia," said Mr Ingram."In terms of...
