Archive for 'Blogs & websites'
Winners of the blog awards
The winners of the 2009 Taiwan blog awards have been announced at Taiwanderful. Special congratulations to A Hungry Girl’s Guide to Taipei for winning the peer-judged award for overall best blog. shu flies won the online vote for the overall best blog.
Thanks to Ben, Portnoy, Carrie, Todd and DJ Marcus for judging the blogs in [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2009 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: taiwanderful
Comments: 2
Vote for the best blogs
Voting in the 2009 Taiwan Best Blog Awards started today. Visit the Taiwan blog directory at Taiwanderful to cast your votes. Anybody can vote for their favorite blogs via the Digg style voting mechanism. You can vote for as many blogs as you like and there is no need to register. More details of how [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2009 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: taiwanderful
Comments: none
Some great Taiwan blogs: Part 3
I have already written about great Taiwan blogs part one and part two. After finishing those posts I realised there were still a few blogs I had inadvertently omitted. I’ll make amends with a third installment.
Patrick Cowsill blogs on life in Taiwan with some interesting history and culture related posts. Brian Webb features photography captured [...]
Posted: November 15th, 2009 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: taiwanderful
Comments: 3
Some great Taiwan blogs: Part 2
Following yesterday’s post on some great Taiwan blogs, here are some more great Taiwan blogs in the categories of travel, photography, politics and tech.
Travel
Hiking Taiwan and Pashan are two blogs dedicated to hiking in Taiwan’s high mountains. Both feature great photos and commentary. A Hungry Girl is the definitive blog of food in Taipei. From [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2009 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: taiwanderful
Comments: 8
Some great Taiwan blogs: Part 1
The Taiwan Best Blog Awards are now on and calling for registrations. I thought it would be a good time to link to and highlight some of the diverse and interesting Taiwan related blogs. Not all of these blogs are registered in the blog directory at Taiwanderful, but I hope some of those that aren’t [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: taiwanderful
Comments: 8
Register for the 2009 blog awards
Taiwanderful is again running awards for the best Taiwan blogs in 2009. The first awards were held last year with a popular online vote to decide the best Taiwan blogs.
This year’s awards will continue with popular online voting, but there will also be a peer-judged category. A group of influential Taiwan bloggers will judge the [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: taiwanderful
Comments: 1
Politics and social media in Taiwan
With local elections approaching the campaign is not just being run on the streets but also in cyberspace. The screen shot from the DPP website above shows the party’s candidates for mayor or county commissioner in the end of year local government elections. Beneath each candidate’s photo there are icons linking to Plurk, Facebook, blogs, [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2009 under Blogs & websites, Taiwan.
Tags: dpp, kmt, politics, twitter, youtube
Comments: 7
WordPress is a great blogging tool
It is almost three years since I migrated this blog from its original home on blogger.com to self-hosted WordPress account. Setting up a WordPress blog can seem a little intimidating at first. I was fortunate to have some good advice and help from Fili when I first switched over.
The WordPress software has many functions which [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2009 under Blogs & websites.
Tags: WordPress
Comments: 4










