David on Formosa

The votes have been counted and the announcement of the winners of the 2010 Taiwan Best Blog Awards is now online at Taiwanderful. The peer-judged award for overall best blog was shared by Neil Wade’s Photography Blog and Letters from Taiwan. The popular online vote for overall best blog was won by My Kafkaesque life. Go to Taiwanderful [...]

Voting is now open in the 2010 Taiwan blog awards. Anyone can participate in the online popular vote and there is no need to register. You can find more details about the voting at Taiwanderful. You can also go directly to the Taiwan blog directory and cast your votes. Updated: This year anyone with a [...]

In the lead up to the 2010 Taiwan blog awards I wanted to note some of my favorite Taiwan blogs. Many of these blogs are listed in the blog directory at Taiwanderful and will be in the running for the blog awards. Also check out Bloggers in Taiwan which features a blog every week and [...]

In the lead up to the local elections in 2010 I wrote a post about the use of social media by politicians in Taiwan. I noted how the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was far more active online than its counterpart, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). I have gathered some data about the use of social [...]

I had a letter published in the Taipei Times today in response to two recent incidents where freedom of speech on the internet was threatened. I wrote an article on my posterous blog which gives some more background on the issue. The post also includes links to the Hu’s girls videos. Tim Maddog has written a [...]

Taiwanderful has just announced the 2010 Taiwan best blog awards. The awards are now in their third year and seek to promote English-language blogs about Taiwan. Last year the awards introduced a peer-judged section and I invited a small group of Taiwan bloggers to act as the judges. This year the peer-judged section will continue, [...]