Fili’s world

The China blogosphere has it all - business, trade, education, travel , expat, technology, law, and humor blogs written by full-time, part-time, problogging,  and hobby bloggers. Seeing myself as being somewhat of a side-member in a few blogospheres (Taiwan/Israel-English/technology) I find the growth of the China blogosphere remarkable. Not a week goes by without discovering a new China blog [...]

Two years ago today, I left Israel and set off to Asia in what has probably been the most important decision of my life. That’s also when I started this blog and detailed my life across Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore, HK, and Taiwan.
It was a year ago that I left Asia and came back west. That’s [...]

Yesterday, five  in the afternoon,we went with mom to the supermarketand on the way we noticed,that our garden is closed.
The swings stand,between the tall trees,and the flowers,so low and colorless,because our garden is closed.
Sleeping cubes lay in the basket,there’s no-one to play.
There’s no nanny to say,what’s wrong and what’s okay,and all the books are sorted neatly [...]

I was recently interviewed by MyChinaStart about Chinalyst.

A couple of months ago, while I was in London, I built this small experiment called Chinalyst which I hoped would become some sort of a community for all the China-related bloggers and blog readers, which I consider myself to be a part of.
With very little publicity, [...]

Last weekend I introduced the China and Taiwan Blog Search tools. Due to extremely positive feedback, I’ve added a very simple way to add this search to your personal web-browser, on either Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Mozilla Firefox 2 (FF2) which both have intergrated search toolbars.
 

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It quite simple. I’ve tweaked automatic installation for anybody visiting my [...]

Available now is a new search tool for the China and Taiwan English blogsphere.
Background
I follow hundreds of China and Taiwan related English blogs and have come to acknowledge that they serve as a vital indispensable source of information for life in China and Taiwan. For a while now, I have been wondering how I could [...]

 
Other “what people do”s :

Part 1 : The Importers, The Internet Auctioneer, The English Teacher
Part 2 : The Hosteler, The Blogger.
Part 3 : The Online Gamer, The Travel Journalist
Part 4 : Write Chinese names, Chinese related blogging.
Part 5 : Build websites

 
Building websites
 
Tools – a computer, preferably a laptop.
Place – anywhere.
Experience and professional knowledge [...]

 It took me a few seconds to make the connection, but then it finally hit me. The site review I was reading in the morning paper while walking my dog was a site that I built. I read it again, and again, making sure that I’m not missing anything, but sure enough – there is [...]