deterius Posted May 11, 2006 at 02:37 AM Report Posted May 11, 2006 at 02:37 AM I would like to share on of my favorite way to practice writing; Blogging, I started bloggin in chinese for three reason: To practice chinese, stay in touch and update my chinese friends on my life, and explain cultural practices! So for my lates post, i discuss mullets. I write with plenty mistakes, but I don't care if my friends cant understand me at all then I go and correct, otherwise I just keep writing. visit my chinese blog at: http://spaces.msn.com/honoluluhawaii Quote
badr Posted May 11, 2006 at 03:36 AM Report Posted May 11, 2006 at 03:36 AM props to you! I've been thinking about doing that for a while but i never get around to starting. Quote
student Posted May 11, 2006 at 04:06 AM Report Posted May 11, 2006 at 04:06 AM This seems like a great idea, but is MSN the best place to host a blog in Chinese (for someone learning chinese)? I'd certainly appreciate other suggestions... Quote
deterius Posted May 11, 2006 at 09:44 AM Author Report Posted May 11, 2006 at 09:44 AM Personaly I think MSN spaces is the best for chinese blogging, It has a huge chinese population and crossing over between diffrent is no problem; what i mean is that all countries use the same MSN space, for ex Cyworld has a diffrent server for each country, so you cannot for example have friends who use the Japanese Cyworld contact your chinese one. Quote
tuxoar Posted May 11, 2006 at 01:00 PM Report Posted May 11, 2006 at 01:00 PM I have also just started blogging on MSN. I start off by using Chinese just to practice a little, but then switch back to english.. kinda easing my way into it. Props to those going Chinese the whole way! I am not a big fan of MSN or Hotmail or Microsoft in general, but nearly EVERY single one of my Chinese friends uses MSN Spaces. Add one more to the bandwagon;-) For others that are apprehensive about writing lots in Chinese just try surfing MSN Spaces and find some random Chinese blog to read. I was pleasantly suprised to find I could understand a great deal (about 80%) without having to use a dictionary. It's great when the past 2 years of hard work and toil pay off like that. Quote
student Posted May 11, 2006 at 05:00 PM Report Posted May 11, 2006 at 05:00 PM I was interested to stumble across this listing of top blog sites: 2006中国Web2.0值得关注的百家企业名单(表)http://www.sina.com.cn 2006年04月08日 22:03 新浪科技 新浪科技讯 4月8日，由计算机世界传媒集团主办，计世资讯承办，IDG、摩根斯坦利、智基创投公司等众多国际风险投资巨头和新浪网等主流媒体参加的2006“中国首届Web 2.0年会暨创投高峰会”在京隆重召开。在本届年会上，计世资讯发布了《Web2.0发展趋势与中国创新》报告和《2006中国Web2.0最值得关注的百家企业》名单，以下为中国Web2.0最值得关注的百家企业具体名单： 1 、博客 类别 网名 网址 博客 网易博客 http://blog.163.com 博易 http://www.anyp.cn BlogBus http://www.blogbus.com 中国博客网 http://www.blogcn.com 博客动力 http://www.blogdriver.com 博客网 http://www.bokee.com 博客园 http://www.cnblogs.com CSDN Blog http://blog.csdn.net Donews Blog http://blog.donews.com 中华部落阁 http://www.mblogger.cn MSN Spaces http://spaces.msn.com Qzone http://q-zone.qq.com 新浪博客 http://blog.sina.com.cn 搜狐博客 http://blog.sohu.com 天涯博客 http://www.tianyablog.com 歪酷博客 http://www.yculblog.com Many more categories might also be of interest, full story at http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2006-04-08/2203896065.shtml Quote
doumeizhen Posted May 11, 2006 at 09:43 PM Report Posted May 11, 2006 at 09:43 PM But when I started learning, there were some sites, run out of China, that weren't entirely compatible with outside veiwing. Meaning: Because they serve only Chinese computers sometimes see word-scramble. I know MSN works, and probably so do they other big 'uns. Just keep that in mind when looking around. Maybe try viewing it in different views: Western, Chinese, see how it holds up. Again, I think this problem is really rare.* Now, interestingly enough, the topic of mullets came up the other day, and it might be interesting to touch upon the history of confusion in Chinese hair, that really sprouted from the braids the Chinese were forced to wear under the Manchurian Qing. *However, myspace the punks don't let you use Chinese. Quote
student Posted May 11, 2006 at 10:50 PM Report Posted May 11, 2006 at 10:50 PM May 11, 2006[sam Flemming] Millions of dollars spent to build a brand in China can evaporate when bad rumors are posted online. Sam Flemming is the founder of CIC data, a company devoted to searching, filing, and reporting on the trends happening online. He helps companies track millions of online messages in blogs, forums, and news articles. The rest of the story is at http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=3916 Quote
pandasteak Posted May 14, 2006 at 05:50 AM Report Posted May 14, 2006 at 05:50 AM I recommend blogger, cause they have a ton of language options (as long as you have the imput software. I recently started a bi-lingual blog (with english and chinese), but I need to make sure I write often enough. ** It's actually quad-ra-lingual, with japanese and korean too, but that content won't be written by me... Quote
frostybird Posted July 3, 2006 at 04:54 AM Report Posted July 3, 2006 at 04:54 AM Blogger is great, but I believe it's blocked in China. I tried making a Chinese blog with them, but none of my Chinese friends could load the page. Quote
amazingdido Posted July 3, 2006 at 02:53 PM Report Posted July 3, 2006 at 02:53 PM Blogger is great, but I believe it's blocked in China. I tried making a Chinese blog with them, but none of my Chinese friends could load the page. Your friends can visit your blog using a proxy.And if you want to make your friends more easily load your page,here you can find how. Quote
carlo Posted July 12, 2006 at 10:52 AM Report Posted July 12, 2006 at 10:52 AM I also use MSN, I like the idea of being on a sort of global platform that supports all languages and character sets and with people visiting from all kinds of places. I don't use my space for anything other than old-fashioned writing, so I've no idea if there are better providers in terms of multimedia capabilities /pictures/music etc (I suspect there are). Anyway I registered with blogsome three days before it was blocked in China, and the thing that most worries me is to end up cut off from my own blog without notice - that is a very real risk. Quote
Strawberries513 Posted July 17, 2006 at 01:54 AM Report Posted July 17, 2006 at 01:54 AM I just set myself up a blog on blogspot.com are there any other people that have blogs on that site? I need friends... but my Chinese is very very basic and my blog entries will probably reflect that. but they will get better my blog address is http://strawberries513.blogspot.com Quote
amazingdido Posted July 17, 2006 at 05:59 AM Report Posted July 17, 2006 at 05:59 AM http://strawberries513.blogspot.com I'm sorry I don't think people in China can visit your blog.'Cause blogspot has been blocked from China. Quote
skylee Posted July 17, 2006 at 12:27 PM Report Posted July 17, 2006 at 12:27 PM are there any other people that have blogs on that site? I need friends... but my Chinese is very very basic and my blog entries will probably reflect that. but they will get better my blog address is http://strawberries513.blogspot.com Some people in China (e.g. Hong Kong) can still visit your blog . I have also created my blog (in Chinese) there. You could take a look if you like -> http://voidsky.blogspot.com Quote
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