David on Formosa

Taiwanderful recently announced the 2011 Taiwan Best Blog Awards. To enter your blog you need to make sure you are registered at Taiwanderful before 10 December. Voting will take place from 10-30 December. I am no longer directly involved in running the awards but this blog will not be entered in the awards even though it is registered at Taiwanderful.

In previous years I have used the blog awards as a time to post links to some of my favourite Taiwan blogs. Even though I’m no longer in Taiwan I still read a number of Taiwan blogs and find them a great way of keeping in touch with what’s happening in Formosa. A list of some blogs I like in several categories follows.

Politics

With the presidential and legislative elections taking place next month these blogs are packed with great analysis.

• Ballots & Bullets – run by Jon Sullivan at the University of Nottingham, lots of articles by Taiwan scholars on the 2012 election
• Frozen Garlic - analysis of some of the legislative election contests that can’t be found elsewhere
• The View from Taiwan - Michael Turton always has great analysis and interesting photos
• The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
• Letters from Taiwan
• Taiwan Matters!
• That’s Impossible
• Dixteel’s Thought on Taiwan
• Jerome Keating
• Save the Taiwan Pink Dolphins – great environmental news and activism

Photography

• Liefintaiwan
• joshintaiwan.com
• Mark Forman (aka Bbluesman)
• Darren Melrose
• Neil Wade
• Brent Franke
• Brian Webb
• Alton’s Images
• Craig Ferguson
• Charles Meacham

Personal and travel

• Taiwan in Cycles
• Shu Flies
• Lao Ren Cha
• The New Hampshire Bushman in Taiwan
• The Daily Bubble Tea
• My Kafkaesque Life
• Patrick Cowsill
• Life in Taiwan
• Isla Formosa
• The Wild East
• Alive and kicking!
• Tumbling in Taiwan
• Taiwan-Born American
• The Taiwan Adventure
• Hiking Taiwan
• Poagao’s Journal
• A hungry girl’s guide to Taipei
• Steven Crook
• Sponge Bear
• Wandering Taiwan
• My Several Worlds