As a team blog from China, we've been blogging for one year since our first post on October 16th. Thanks to all our great readers and authors, now we have 121 posts and 1,357 comments altogether. The very original idea of this blog was inspired in 2005, by a Flash developer from German who came across to my personal Chinese blog and asked me to update some stories in English. Then I blogged some posts in English but at last I stopped.
Blogging in English is very interesting but really hard for me. Anyway, English is not my mother language. Even weird, writing English posts in my personal blog also makes some my Chinese readers feel strange. (I proudly got some daily traffic in 2005)
However, as the internationalization(i18n) was introduced to more and more people over the world, I think it would be rather interesting to share our ideas about China, Chinese with people from all over the world who might be interested in such stories. In the late summer of 2007, I asked some of my friends: You, Lisa, Cat and many other friends about the idea. Many of them were interested and then we started up this team blog in October, named "ifgogo.com", just make it easy to remember.
I know it's really a hard task and it's a long way to go. Anyway, just enjoy blogging.
Happy anniversary:)
Thanks Fishrine :)
Wow! Time really flies! I couldn't think it might be one year passed if you didn't mention it, since all the initial days are seemed yesterday...
Right! I joined ifgogo and then posted firstly for slef-introduction on 17 Oct 2007 Beijing time. After the whole year, we have had much fun, enjoyment and experience on Chinese in English. I feel very happy to be a member of this nice team blog.
Talking about English, I think I am only an English fan but want to use it as much as I can. So, I like to post in English on our real life, our thinking and our hope, etc. By ifgogo, we did and will do more.
Hope ifgogo can do well and go well everyday!
Wish people all over the world love each other like brothers and sisters!
Congratulations. It has been a pleasure to be an ifgogo reader and fan! It is so important for the world to get to know China better, and ifgogo is playing an important part in my opinion. I know it is hard to blog in English for non-native speakers, and it is much appreciated. I would encourage ifgogo contributors to not be too self-conscious about their English writing ability and to just express their thoughts clearly and honestly.
Ifgogo is an example of Chinese people meeting us Westerners more than halfway, and I wish I were fluent enough in Chinese to write my own thoughts and opinions for Chinese readers.
Thanks again. And please keep it up. Let me know how else I could be more encouraging and supportive to the Ifgogo writers!
Thanks Elliott!
Just stay tuned and new things will be coming later.
I will of course make this blog more interactive and powerful when I am free weeks later.
The cost of ifgogo is currently very low, don't worry :)
I marvel at Aw's tireless efforts to keep readers informed and many of the other contributors can too. Remember many people outside of China do not speak Chinese and depends on sites like Ifgogo for many personal views on what's happening in different parts of China posted by your contributors . Do keep up the good work, Aw and your team of contributors. I have enjoyed reading most of the postings.... a recent one being the topic of hairy crabs! Fascinating!
Thanks.
Just be too busy this year, I will try my best to improve it! :)
Haha, Ching, I know you are always interested in good food. You can recognize them and have them!
Welcome to China!
happy aniversary.
Cheers, everyone.
Aw, really tks for this platform.
Already one year! How time flies~ still a long road to go
happy aniversary.
I both read your awflash blog and ifgogo.
Thanks for your interesting.
Happy anniversary!
I wonder if this whole blog can go i18n? :P
Seems that I can't edit my own post, so I'll have to double-post...Sorry
Just found out that this blog is partially i18n'ed already:
http://www.ifgogo.com/147/welcome-to-beijing-olmpic-games/
Good effort here!
what do you mean by make it i18n?
I don't think we have enough energy to focus on other languages. But we'd like to know such kind of blogs.
Thanks for your attention :)
Content goes here and 内容， etc., and display the the posts in the language as per the reader's choice.
An improbable idea though :P
It is really important to let the world know more about China. This blog is a good try, and I am preparing myself to be a contributor :)
Oops...Wordpress parsed my code...
It should be: Content goes here and 内容
hope that WP won't be too smart and parse the above too...
I'm still not very sure about what do you mean by "parse".
WP parses some special HTML tag that may break the layout of a page or may cause a security issue.
Anyway, glad to know you here :)
Happy 1st Birthday!
Thank you all for taking the time to put up your articles.
Congratulations! Thanks for putting your effort into this blog. I know writing in a foreign language is tough... I've tried writing a few entries in Chinese on my own blog, and it takes a long time. Good luck in the future!
Happy New Year!
Haha, I read your blog, it's cool.
Thanks for your kind comments, let's enjoy 2009 together :)