Excellent China Blogs Gone AWOL. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Just cleaned up my feed reader, which meant deleting blogs that no longer post and deleting blogs that no longer interest me.
I use Feed Demon as my blog reader (I know Feed Demon is somewhat antiquated, but I have been using it since forever and I like it) and one of the things it does is list "dinosaur blogs" that have not posted for at least 60 days. I deleted most of the blogs on this list, but a number of them I was just not willing to delete. At least not yet.These are really good blogs that for I know had a lot of good/important/insightful things to say about China. These are blogs I miss and I am afraid to delete them, for fear they will come back and I will have missed something. Before I can delete them, I need to know more.
Here they are:
-- The Chief Asia Inspector Blog
-- China Business and Travel
-- Trade Media Blog
-- Experience Not Logic
-- Transnational Law Blog
-- ThinkChina
-- China Manufacturing Blog
-- Cup of Cha
-- Chinamatic
-- New Energy and Environment Digest
-- SinoFactory
-- Black and White Cat
So what has happened to these blogs? Are any planning on returning? Are they just on hiatus? Should I just go ahead and delete? What do you know?
Comments (9)
Read through and enter the discussion by using the form at the endWill Lewis - February 14, 2010 1:26 PM
Dan,
Studying tax law ain't like studying the regular 'ole law, so I've been hiatusing. Permanent? I don't know... Feel free to delete because I'll be sure to let you know when I'm back.
PH - February 14, 2010 2:17 PM
The writer for Chinamatic is now regularly contributing to Chinahush.
Others? Beats me.
FOARP - February 15, 2010 5:05 AM
Black and White Cat is back in Blighty for the forseeable future, so he is unlikely to post any more on China.
Stan - February 16, 2010 5:27 AM
Have you heard anything from Tim Johnson who used to do "China Rises" for McClatchy?I exchanged a few emails with him into December. He is listed as being "on leave" at the McClatchy website. He was researching a book and awaiting assignment the last time I heard from him. He seems to have dropped off the scope. I know you enjoyed his blog. Let me know if you have any intel...Many thanks
David Levy - February 16, 2010 5:31 AM
Dan,
SinoFactory is on Haiatus due to illness. Should be back after CNY.
Thanks for asking about SinoFactory.
David
safarinew - February 16, 2010 6:55 AM
It's good to have CLB diligently blogging, although sometimes i was just glancing over the titles. Whether I'm in the reading mood or not, CLB is always blogging.And this...touched me.
cat - February 17, 2010 10:59 AM
Yes, Dan, I have been silent for far too long, but I'd prefer to call it missing in action rather than awol.
The two main causes:
1) The family reasons (which I can't really go into) that prompted me to come back to England. The crisis has now come to a head and looks as if it will soon be resolved, in a way.
2) I didn't have any reliable access to the internet until last Friday and the internet is kind of important for blogging.
So... Hopefully I will return to my irregular posting in the not too distant future. There is, though, a big unknown. How will the fact that I am no longer in China affect the subjects that I want to blog about. I still don't know because these last four months have been too surreal and distressing.
Black and White Cat will resume and I hope it will include enough about China to interest the people who have followed it up to now. But it may not. We'll just have to see.
Cup of Cha - February 21, 2010 5:18 PM
You have shamed me into calling it quits (been considering making it official for a while anyway).
One day it might return, but I doubt it.
CC - February 22, 2010 11:26 AM
Dan - PH above is right, I have been contributing more regularly to ChinaHush now. I don't have time to blog everyday so Chinamatic is on standby.