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Let's say, it's a restart?

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I found out that it's been like..1 and half years since last time I've been here. And it seems it never wake me up again. :)

Well,  I still remember the first time AW talked me about the IfGoGo project. He talked with me via Gtalk, and from a long period, I don't even know why I would accept to join this project.  Perhaps AW is good at persuading? No, I was persuaded by him because I‘m curious about what will happen here.

But once I calmed down to think about what is the role I should play in this project, I get totally confused. It's not like a personally blog. In that way, you could say anything about yourself because you know your readers are your close friends (well, at least you know them well) and you are supposed to tell them some of your own business. But it's not! Most of your readers here are not familiar with you. You don't even know them well. So,  why should I put some trivial stuff everyday here to bother people have no relation with you? Definitely not. So what am I gonna do? I did not get the answer..

Actually, I did not pay too much attention about it since I got confused. I was not that kind of person that has great passion on writing blog at that time. Because I treated blog as trivial stuff in my life... It's like.. a diary or what else could it be??

I hold this opinion for quite a long time. This is why I did not write anything here before. Until one day, I happened to know a blogs called TechCrunch. Yes, Michael Arrington runs that blog for several years. And now it gains about 200, 000 U.S dollars a month.

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Technorati is blocked in China

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I am really so sorry to admit the fact: "technorati.com" is completely on the black list now.

Actually, the "www.technorati.com"(with the www-prefix) had been blocked inside China for years, but the technorati.com was always working. But this time, when I try to access the "technorati.com", it shows "This page is not available".

Well, seems blogging in China is really a hard job :)

The first year anniversary of ifgogo.com

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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.

The great moment – Attending WordCamp China in Beijing

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(Photo by LemonED)

It was really a happy day. Good weather and great bloggers from all over China. The more exciting thing is that Automattic sent Matt Mullenweg and Hailin Wu to us. WordPress is really a great platform that makes almost everyone (who uses it) benefits from it. I've been a WordPress user since Feb, 2007 and the ifgogo blog is also built using WordPress from the very beginning.

Like a lot of other "WPers", I've been contributing to some themes and plugins of WordPress as well. And fortunately that I got a chance to contribute to the upcoming Video feature of WordPress.com service. That's really a great experience to contribute to such a big community.

As the idea of WordPress is everyone contributes and everyone benefits, I hope the ifgogo project would follow the same way. We don't blog for money and fame, we just blog for the readers especially those who leave sweet or critical feedbacks to our interesting (or even bored) stories ;) - Though the ifgogo blog is currently still very young and simple, I am sure it will bring you happiness and friends every author blogs.

However, for some infamous and ridiculous reasons, people in China seldom express themselves to the public but the WordPress system really give everyone a chance to do, or at least to try, and finally becomes a blogger :) The WordCamp then gathers the great bloggers together to meet, and share.

To share, to contribute and also to get the friends, responses and sometimes benefits, that's why we blog for today, and tomorrow.

Join Facebook finally

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As you know, Facebook is famous, but I did not have passion to join there until today. Yes, I change my mind today, and I will be more open in future.

Before I talk more about Facebook, I want to say something about Xiaonei.com. That site looks near the same as Facebook The concept is the same, so is the style, and even the user interface. No doubt, that is a site copying everything from Facebook. Anyway, I liked there very much, especially in the last few months before graduation. I was attracted by such kind of site for first time.

About three months ago, I tried to take a deep look at Facebook and consider whether to sign up. I shadowed my friend for a while and found it was really dizzy. I did not mean the color, but the uncountable gadgets and links scared me. I did not feel ready to get involved in this complex ecosystem.

Now, I feel I have changed a bit. And I made a real progress that I finally join Facebook now. Hey friends, I am new and open here. Please feel free to share your good or bad emotions with me. :)

P.S. Is there any plug-in for Facebook that enables user to post blog items to a WordPress hosted site like this? I think it could be a good idea to write blogs in Facebook and post here, then use RSS to integrate items in Facebook. It is a win-win solution, as I do not want to write English blog on two sites. :P

Is this my blogging day?

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I planned to attend a Microsoft free training today, just for the *free lunch*. But a friend in Microsoft told us that they received too many training applications, and didn't think that I should attend it. So, I just got another day without any schedule. I knew that I should prepare for my TOEFL test this weekend, but i don't know since when I just do not want to do any preparation for tests. If I'm really skillful on the tested subject, I will manage to get through. Otherwise, I don't want a score that doesn't reflect my true level.

Anyway, I started writing blog posts after woke up. I logged my Tencent paper test yesterday, and wrote an argument on Linq to Sql, then marked down my thoughts on solid feed subscribers, and finally expressed my hatred of filling out online job application forms a little. I have never experienced writing so many blog posts in one day. Maybe that would be the my life style if I become a professional technology author. In fact, I really think that the position of a pro tech author somehow attracts me. The advantage of being a free lancer is freedom, with plenty of flexibility in scheduling. The disadvantage is that you have to arrange everything for yourself, because there's no boss issuing tasks to you.

I have no idea whether I'll be a pro tech author. I don't even know what kind of job or study I will have next year. There are too many possibilities.

Tell me what you read, and I will tell you what you are.

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This is a blog written by Chinese and writing in English, and we have no ideas about who is going to read our posts. So the bottom line is that we should find out who is our audience.

So far, most of our audience are from mainland China, and speaking Chinese as their everyday language, according to Google Analytics' data. This is one audience group we might pick, then we have to figure out what's point of writing English blog posts for Chinese readers. Here are some possible answers:

  • Typing English is a whole lot faster than typing Chinese, and that can save our time.
  • Just for practicing English.
  • For getting to know Chinese who might have the same higher value(at least have the same higher English skill).

What is the other possible audience group? They might be people who know little about but are interested in Chinese language and culture. And what are the benefits for targeting these audience? They might be:

  • Getting to know foreigners, which means people who have different culture background with us.
  • Let people who are interested in Chinese culture get to know Chinese easier and better.

So, tell me why do you think that this blog is worth writing or worth reading? Which audience group do you think that we should target first?

Hi! this is Tower Zane from Chongqing

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Nice meeting u everybody!

I'm Zane Tower from Chongqing China.And my nickname on internet is usually 'hidecloud' .This name comes from my Chinese pseudonym '潜云' which means cloud hides in the sky.

I'm a Chinese blogger for 3 years.And u can read my blog here.Of course , it's written in Chinese.

Since I usually have some ideas which only can be described in English . I started to think about having an English blog recently.