Comments on: So, what's next? http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/ Chinese in English Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:46:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Elliott Ng http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-548 Elliott Ng Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:12:11 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-548 I don't really understand how the "top 10 commentators" work! It seems to reset every day or two. I don't really understand how the "top 10 commentators" work! It seems to reset every day or two.

]]> By: Gijo http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Gijo Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:09:59 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-532 "top-10 authors of the week" I love that. Trying to be Top-10 commentators first: ） "top-10 authors of the week"
I love that.
Trying to be Top-10 commentators first: ）

]]> By: Elliott Ng http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Elliott Ng Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:19:46 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-496 Happy New Year to everyone. Enjoy your time on vacation during Spring Festival. I hope many blessings come to all of you during 2008. Happy New Year to everyone. Enjoy your time on vacation during Spring Festival. I hope many blessings come to all of you during 2008.

]]> By: Elliott Ng http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Elliott Ng Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:29:50 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-494 I agree with your comment that more pictures would be nice. For example, since Chinese New Year is coming up, I want to see some more pictures of where everyone is going for Spring Festival. I see lots of pictures of Beijing and Shanghai but not of the various hometowns that everyone is going to. Also, I know there are lots of transit problems right now due to the cold weather. Hope everyone is staying safe and warm! I agree with your comment that more pictures would be nice. For example, since Chinese New Year is coming up, I want to see some more pictures of where everyone is going for Spring Festival. I see lots of pictures of Beijing and Shanghai but not of the various hometowns that everyone is going to. Also, I know there are lots of transit problems right now due to the cold weather. Hope everyone is staying safe and warm!

]]> By: Lisa http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-488 Lisa Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:46:30 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-488 Elliott Ng, Thanks a lots for your comments. I am happy that you could find ifgogo and then know all of us here. It is really good to have something like ifgogo to be a huge bridge, across which we people with different races as well as cutural backgrounds can share and enjoy each other. The world is of ours and we have a responsibility to make it more colorful and interesting.....right? Elliott Ng,

Thanks a lots for your comments.

I am happy that you could find ifgogo and then know all of us here. It is really good to have something like ifgogo to be a huge bridge, across which we people with different races as well as cutural backgrounds can share and enjoy each other.

The world is of ours and we have a responsibility to make it more colorful and interesting.....right?

]]> By: Elliott Ng http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-485 Elliott Ng Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:56:21 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-485 @AW, Yes thank you for your advice as a fellow blogger to us at CN Reviews. I read your post with interest about "author-experience" vs. "reader-experience." We have been thinking about it a little differently. At CN Reviews, we have a small initial group of 3 authors, with different writing styles and interests. So we have found that a group blog is very different from a personal blog. Should we have one "vision" and one "voice"? Or one unified "vision" but with many "voices"? Or no "vision" at all? Anyway, thanks for getting me to think about "author-experience. Can we interview you and a few ifgogo.com bloggers to promote your blog? I think Min will want to talk to you about this. @Lisa, I love your comment! I think blogging is partly about the destination, but also partly about the journey. So there is a balance between being very goal oriented and being experience oriented. So I agree with your comment. @Cat Chen, Thanks to my blogging partner Min introducing me to this blog, I will be reading it. I live in Silicon Valley and am an American (of Chinese descent), so I guess now you have a reader who is a real foreigner with big cultural differences! @Chrisding, I also think about this topic a lot as an editor on CN Reviews. Are we trying to build a readership of foreigners interested in China? Or are we trying to build a community of people that can learn from each other because of their cultural differences? Anyway we are just experimenting and seeing where our group blogging experience is going. @AW,
Yes thank you for your advice as a fellow blogger to us at CN Reviews. I read your post with interest about "author-experience" vs. "reader-experience." We have been thinking about it a little differently. At CN Reviews, we have a small initial group of 3 authors, with different writing styles and interests. So we have found that a group blog is very different from a personal blog. Should we have one "vision" and one "voice"? Or one unified "vision" but with many "voices"? Or no "vision" at all? Anyway, thanks for getting me to think about "author-experience. Can we interview you and a few ifgogo.com bloggers to promote your blog? I think Min will want to talk to you about this.

@Lisa,
I love your comment! I think blogging is partly about the destination, but also partly about the journey. So there is a balance between being very goal oriented and being experience oriented. So I agree with your comment.

@Cat Chen,
Thanks to my blogging partner Min introducing me to this blog, I will be reading it. I live in Silicon Valley and am an American (of Chinese descent), so I guess now you have a reader who is a real foreigner with big cultural differences!

@Chrisding,
I also think about this topic a lot as an editor on CN Reviews. Are we trying to build a readership of foreigners interested in China? Or are we trying to build a community of people that can learn from each other because of their cultural differences? Anyway we are just experimenting and seeing where our group blogging experience is going.

]]> By: Min Guo http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-483 Min Guo Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:15:10 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-483 AW, thank you for reading CN Reviews and very appreciate that you tell us what you want to read! And, this is a great site ifgogo.com. I didn't realize that are so many Chinese kids writing in English. This is very exciting.... I want to chat with you sometime online. ttyl. Happy Chinese New Year! Keep warm! AW, thank you for reading CN Reviews and very appreciate that you tell us what you want to read! And, this is a great site ifgogo.com. I didn't realize that are so many Chinese kids writing in English. This is very exciting.... I want to chat with you sometime online. ttyl.

Happy Chinese New Year! Keep warm!

]]> By: Aw Guo http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-477 Aw Guo Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:40:03 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-477 Thanks for your interesting. Nowadays the hi-school students are really of great passion and intelligence, that's great! Well, welcome to join this funny journey of life! Just send me your information. Thanks for your interesting. Nowadays the hi-school students are really of great passion and intelligence, that's great!
Well, welcome to join this funny journey of life! Just send me your information.

]]> By: Lisa http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-475 Lisa Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:10:38 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-475 Talking about the future of ifgogo, we may recall the initial idea of setting it. Here, I'd like to copy Aw's "About" as follows: "Ifgogo.com is a blog written in English by people from China or living in China. It’s just a blog in English. It’s about everything." I don't think the number of readers or authors is the KEY of ifgogo's life for the time being...... I am quite happy with its specialties of "Chinese in English", putting under the name of ifgogo. This is the only important character ifgogo should keep, otherwise, why should it exist since there are so many websites at which people can post or leave comments in the virtual world! So, firstly it is the Chinese who write blogs in English, and thus to show Chinese as well as Foreigners how we live, what we think about and how we write these things out in English. Ifgogo can play as a small window opening to the wide world. I do think it is necessary to enlarge our author's team, to let every kind of people who are interested in English to join in. Of course the new authors can not be free registered like that at some open sites. It should be filtered and well managed. Secondly, we need to find a good way to let more and more people know ifgogo. I quite agree with Chrisding that we may sort out some interesting topics and into several categories, other than only "Normal" there. In this way, ifgogo can be not only driving author's writing, but also arousing reader's interests. thirdly, our current 12 authors really have some responsibility to post more. It is not a task to push us to do, but an interest to lead us to go, right? And talking about the current application system, I leave it to Aw, Xu, Cat, etc.. I believe they can work out some good way to run ifgogo better. I do hope this small window ifgogo can be opened larger and larger, and attract more and more people to peek into! Talking about the future of ifgogo, we may recall the initial idea of setting it. Here, I'd like to copy Aw's "About" as follows:
"Ifgogo.com is a blog written in English by people from China or living in China.
It’s just a blog in English. It’s about everything."

I don't think the number of readers or authors is the KEY of ifgogo's life for the time being...... I am quite happy with its specialties of "Chinese in English", putting under the name of ifgogo. This is the only important character ifgogo should keep, otherwise, why should it exist since there are so many websites at which people can post or leave comments in the virtual world!

So, firstly it is the Chinese who write blogs in English, and thus to show Chinese as well as Foreigners how we live, what we think about and how we write these things out in English. Ifgogo can play as a small window opening to the wide world. I do think it is necessary to enlarge our author's team, to let every kind of people who are interested in English to join in. Of course the new authors can not be free registered like that at some open sites. It should be filtered and well managed.

Secondly, we need to find a good way to let more and more people know ifgogo. I quite agree with Chrisding that we may sort out some interesting topics and into several categories, other than only "Normal" there. In this way, ifgogo can be not only driving author's writing, but also arousing reader's interests.

thirdly, our current 12 authors really have some responsibility to post more. It is not a task to push us to do, but an interest to lead us to go, right? And talking about the current application system, I leave it to Aw, Xu, Cat, etc.. I believe they can work out some good way to run ifgogo better.

I do hope this small window ifgogo can be opened larger and larger, and attract more and more people to peek into!

]]> By: Max http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Max Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:58:31 +0000 http://www.ifgogo.com/45/so-whats-next/#comment-472 Nice to meet you, Aw. I knew your idea about "Ifgogo.com" on your blog(http://www.awflasher.com) and then I just took some interest in it. I've already read some posts and FAQ's, which made me pay more attention to "Ifgogo.com". Well, as I think "Ifgogo.com" is really a great place for communicating, so I just fell in love with here. Just like you mentioned, "Ifgogo.com" is for sharing and recording, so I decided to share my life and some interesting things. I'm a high school student who love English and Web 2.0 very much(and that's why I read your blog). I think if I, such a little boy(compared with you guys), could be a part of this big family, here would be brought more vitalities by me. So, what's my idea of the future of "Ifgogo.com"? Reader-experience first. As we all know, "Ifgogo.com" is not a private website but a place for mind-changing between readers and authors. Readers can write down what they think of one post. If there were 100 hundred readers, then there may be 100 hundred different thinkings. And making some good readers become new authors to attract more readers, I think this is a good way to keep "Ifgogo.com" active. Nice to meet you, Aw.
I knew your idea about "Ifgogo.com" on your blog(http://www.awflasher.com) and then I just took some interest in it. I've already read some posts and FAQ's, which made me pay more attention to "Ifgogo.com". Well, as I think "Ifgogo.com" is really a great place for communicating, so I just fell in love with here. Just like you mentioned, "Ifgogo.com" is for sharing and recording, so I decided to share my life and some interesting things. I'm a high school student who love English and Web 2.0 very much(and that's why I read your blog). I think if I, such a little boy(compared with you guys), could be a part of this big family, here would be brought more vitalities by me.

So, what's my idea of the future of "Ifgogo.com"? Reader-experience first. As we all know, "Ifgogo.com" is not a private website but a place for mind-changing between readers and authors. Readers can write down what they think of one post. If there were 100 hundred readers, then there may be 100 hundred different thinkings. And making some good readers become new authors to attract more readers, I think this is a good way to keep "Ifgogo.com" active.

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