Unblogday 2006

Blogday 2006, a day devoted to bloggers across the world (but blocked in China ), was celebrated two days ago with most bloggers referring to 5 blogs. There were some weird projects going on, like the 24 hour blogging, and all-in-all it was an interesting online event.

`They gave it to me — for an un-birthday present.'
`I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air.
`I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.
`I mean, what is an un-birthday present?'
`A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course.'
Alice considered a little. `I like birthday presents best,' she said at last.
`You don't know what you're talking about!' cried Humpty Dumpty. `How many days are there in a year?'
`Three hundred and sixty-five,' said Alice.
`And how many birthdays have you?'
`One.'
`And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?'
`Three hundred and sixty-four, of course.'  …
‘– and that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents –' … `And only one for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!'

For us simple folks – everyday is an unblogday, so… on this un-blogday, I'll give my own irrelevant blog recommendations :

Asian related :

• Doubting to Shuo – Mark has some wonderful  stories and observations about his life in Taiwan and recent travels in Asia. Mark has used his tech-related skills to build some small useful online tools and service, such as the Pinyin Tone tool and the Taiwanfeed service.
• Sinosplice – Tales about life in China and learning Chinese. Simple, straightforward, funny at times, always interesting.

Technology related :

• Quick online tips – At first, the title kept me away, but after finding a few vital pointers to information I was looking for in this site through a web-search I've come to acknowledge that this blog has some good posts for people like me – somewhat tech savvy, blog owners, and highly appreciative for simplicity.
• Techcrunch – An internet empire of blogs all covering Internet technology start-up and companies across the globe. Being the social-web fanatic that I am, this is one blog that I enjoy following (and testing out tools mentioned).
• Problogger – With posts like "why having a blog is like having a baby" this site is a phenomena that just can't be ignored. With thousands of devoted readers all seeking to fulfill the Internet dream of making money out of their blogs it is only left for us to conclude, quoted from a wise friend, that "The best way for you to make money off your blog is to write a blog about how to make money". A brilliant reflection of the revolution blogging has gone through from being a personal diary to being profit-practical oriented.

Thanks to Omer's Israeli Security-Log for, as far as I know, my only Blogday 2006 mention. He's one of the very few reads available in Hebrew about IT security.

And a collection of other active blogs mentioned on this blog recently which are worth a quick re-mentioning (all somehow Asia-related) :

• China based  – EastSouthWestNorth, Danwei, Adventures of the Humanaught, The Dorm Boys, Shanghaiist.
• Taiwan based – The Peking Duck, Catherinedaigle, David on Formosa, The Daily Bubble Tea, The View from Taiwan, Bloggers in Taiwan , The Taiwan Chronicles.
• Israeli based  – The Wok, Within the Wall.
• Other – Hanzismatter.