30 Dec, 2009 in Blogging by Fili An
Summary of Fili’s World year 2009

2009 is about to close, 2010 awaits. For those interested, here are a few stats about Fili’s World – the blog- for the year 2009.
Over the last year I wrote 205 blog posts, averaging a post every 1.75 days, which is surprising with the insane work load I’ve had.
I think it shows that [...]

3 Nov, 2009 in Taiwan Blogosphere by Fili An
Taiwan Blogging Awards 2009 @Taiwanderful

Taiwanderful is again running the Taiwan Best Blog Awards in 2009 following the inaugural competition last year.
(Taiwanderful’s Taiwan Blog Awards 2009 announcement)

It’s been a few years since Taiwanderful came into existence with David’s kind help. Although I’m now located in HK I guess I will always Taiwan is my second home. I keep [...]

20 Sep, 2009 in Blogging by Fili An
Maximizing Blogging Brand : Self-hosting & a unique Domain

In today’s world, a person’s blog is an important indicator of his personal “brand”. I’m maybe too well aware of the fact that the things I do online reflect on how I’m perceived and judged by others. Those who want to know who I am look me up on search engines and social networks [...]

5 Aug, 2009 in Chinese Blogosphere by Fili An
Live from the blogosphere (image from Boingboing)

I’ve been following the China blogosphere for about 4 years now, ever since I became passionate about all things Chinese. As a tribute to the hard working bloggers I wrote an article for "Here’s Dong Guan", a monthly expat magazine for the city of Dong Guan in Guangdong province, and it was published in the [...]

15 May, 2009 in Blogging by Fili An
Fili's World's Facebook Page

You’re all probably familiar with Facebook & Twitter by now. If you’re not, you’re my idol – you’ve managed to escape two of the most time consuming socially enforcing phenomenons currently pushing their way through the net. Although I’m considered by most friends and family as an early adopter of technology, especially "all that social [...]

21 Apr, 2009 in Blogging by Fili An
Brand new Fili's World logos

Mis-B, or Mrs. Webber-Zvik, a talented Israeli web-designer with terrific blog design projects like Parisait, has been extremely sweet and kind in presenting me with the most wonderful 4 year anniversary present for my blog.
Take a look at those kick ass logos :

 

Isn’t that just beautiful? Thanks, Mis B!

17 Jan, 2009 in Blogging by Fili An
Asian Pop Culture - Japanese Cosplay - NCKU Tainan Taiwan-505.JPG

Happy (/+Chinese) new year!
It’s very difficult to summarize a blogging year. I started going through last year’s posts, but as there are hundreds of them, it seemed very time consuming. So I’ll take the easy path and share some stats.
Over the last year I wrote over 250 posts, averaging a post every 1.5 days. I’d [...]

29 Nov, 2008 in Taiwan Blogosphere by Fili An
Taiwanderful Announces The Best Taiwan Blogs 2008

It’s been a while since it actually took place, but I was busy as the time and I still want to write something about it.  This was the “press release” issued :
Results of the 2008 Taiwan Blog Awards
The results of the 2008 Taiwan Best Blog Awards have been announced. The awards are for English language [...]