Tag Archives: Future

So, what's next?

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It's been months since www.ifgogo.com is online. We post 35 posts and received 397 comments. It's not a big number,  for we have 11 authors in all. Actually, in the past few weeks, some friends asked me about the future of ifgogo.com. I did not answer them immediately in details, so that's why you are now reading this post.

At the Chinese Blogger Conference 2007, I introduced ifgogo to some foreigner friends. Most of them were very interested in this idea. But when being asked for the future of ifgogo, three problems are also raised: The first problem, reader-experience first, or author-experience first; The second problem, post regularly, or post at will; The third problem, more authors, or less authors.

I met Xu and Chen in Beijing, but due to some reasons, we did not discuss about ifgogo in details. So here I just want to say something about these three problems:

1) Reader-experience first or author-experience first
Seems to be a good question, but as I think about twice, I get the answer: the authors' experience. The reason is simple: readers' experience is mostly due to the content you provide. However, the content is directly driven by our authors. The authors should be of great interest in sharing wise ideas, some of them should be dedicated to "blogging in English at ifgogo". However, the most very reason to drive an author is the author experience. After all, once the author experience is well designed and the rules(The rules, as well as the privileges for our authors) are well made, I believe the reader-experience will be very great.

2) Post regularly, or post at will
It's not that complicated. As I mentioned above, when the authors feel that writing at ifgogo is a funny job and of great joy, they will be posting interesting stories regularly at will.

3) more authors, or less authors
Once the rules are well made, I think this is not serious. For example, we can put the "top-10 authors of the week" at our homepage as reward. And we can set up a core-team of ifgogo.com

We (Xu, Chen and me) will have some talks later and I am sure we can have some great ideas!

However, if you have any suggestions, feel free to post a comment here!

The past vs the future

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Sometimes, I think about this, and I am sure everyone thinks about this.

After I watched The Count of Monte Cristo and The Shawshank Redemption, I was shocked that if you have a beautiful dream and a very strong determination, the future can be so beautiful.

But after I watched The Butterfly Effect, it was rather sad. No matter how hard you try to fix, bad things still happen. The worse thing is, even the only solution is to sacrifice yourself.

The Butterfly Effect2 is really a very poor movie, but its tagline is somehow remarkable:  Can you change your past without destroying your future. - Yes, sometimes we are always thinking about changing our past, and somehow no one cares the future.

Sometimes, You may think, if you made that decision in another way, things would be very different by now. Sometimes, You may complain that if you had never joined this company, you might be much richer than you are. But it's that the truth?

The only truth, at least so far, is that you can never change the past. Even if you don't care about ruining your future, still you can never change your past. There is never a man like Evan Treborn.

But you can also change one kind of "past", that is "now". "Now" is not the past, but it's going to be the past. Actually, as for The Shawshank Redemption, The Butterfly Effect, no matter which one, is telling us to live in the present.

Never care the past and never worry about the future. Everything we get is the present. The present will be the past, and it will also be the future :)

Three Days in Life

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I am told there are only 3 days totally in one's life. They are: yesterday, today and tomorrow! I know it is a symbolistic saying that means what you have experienced, what you are holding on and what you are looking forl.....

Surely! To me:

Yesterday was full of happy childhood before "Wen Ge" and sufferings after it;

Today is working hardly and updating mysel everyday by new knowledge;

Tomorrow will be a new journey to new places with my endless passion and hope......

With ifgogo, I believe that my yesterday was Microsoft Word, my today is post and comment here, and my tomorrow will be Flash learned from awflasher and other genius!