Fili’s world

A recent discussion with some Taiwan bloggers about the state of the Taiwan expat blogosphere resulted in an idea to try and build a comprehensive Taiwan blogger directory that would allow bloggers to get to know each other and potentially bring in new readership. Sure, we got the “Bloggers in Taiwan”, “Taiwanfeed” and Michael [...]

While the other Israeli blogs on China are disappearing, it’s nice to find new ones. Naama and Zohar left to southern China and have been writing about their lives in a new Hebrew blog translated "Just like home, but completely different".
Here’s a quick translation from their introduction:

When we went to study Humanities, we didn’t [...]

What is the readerbase potential for Taiwan blogs? is anybody really interested in English Taiwan websites? Using Alexa’s problematic traffic ratings, I’ll quickly discuss the Taiwanese English websphere, blogosphere and the its potential.
What are the biggest English Taiwan websites and just how big is their traffic? I compared a few of the active Taiwan communities [...]

I haven’t seen any announcements or mentions of this in either Chinese-related or IT-related blogs, but it seems that Google Translate is finally BETA testing Traditional Chinese, which is used in Taiwan, HK and some other Chinese communities outside China.
Although Altavista’s Babelfish has been providing this service for a while now, it always felt [...]

Israeli blogs about Chinese culture and life in China/Taiwan are hard to find, yet what’s even harder to find is a Chinese/Taiwanese blog about Israeli culture and life in Israel. Up till a week ago I haven’t been able to find any blogs at all, and writing an Israeli perspective blog about China/Taiwan I’ve always wondered what [...]