Rat Year and 3-month Roundup
Written by Uln on January 25th, 2009Today is the last of the Rat days. Happy 牛 Year to all! And byebye too, I won’t be around for the next few days: I’m off to where the weather suits my clothes, down to the charming shores of Southern Fujian.
I will take the chance before I pack up to write my little roundup of the Rat year, as today is also exactly the 3 month Anniversary of CHINAYOUREN. I want to write what these 3 months have meant for this blogger. We are on holidays and the time is to relax, so I’ll do it in easy bullet points:
- Hailing from the primitive highlands of Western Europe, Uln is a very recent blogger, with an experience of 3 months writing blogs, and just 6 months reading or even knowing what a blog is.
- In these 3 Rat months I have discovered that blogging is not just weird psychotherapy. It is also a way to speak of ideas too brainy to be allowed in the pub, and actually get people listening. More suprisingly for me, you actually make friends.
- One of my main discoveries is that China bloggers are cool. Even the big ones that I thought inaccessible and Holy. All of them answer my emails and sometimes even share readers by linking to this my humble site. For the moment I haven’t encountered a single exception, thanks to all.
- Speaking of Links: I have to give special thanks to those that helped me get some readers: First, to China Law BLog and Global Voices, who linked me from my very first post. Then the Wall Street Journal blog, for bringing me record readership by linking me 3 times in a single week. And, third but not least, the Fool’s Mountain, who not only inspire me with their ever lively discussion, but also let me publish 2 articles and shamelessly promote my blog on their site.
- To be completely fair, I have to mention that Google are good to me, and in spite of my pointing my finger at them, I continue getting amazing results in their search engine. For SEO reasons that I’ll never understand I am Number One on strings such as Update President Obama. And what is fair is fair: I owe the same credit to the Chinese authorities who, in spite of my finger-pointing and irreverent writing, have yet to censor my content in any way.
- The most important of all: I seriously enjoy blogging. It is amazing that 200 people from the most diverse origins come into my website in a single day. I even enjoy it more when someone leaves a comment, so please make my day and leave yours below.
- Finally, my Bloggy Resolutions for the 牛 Year: Write shorter posts, write better English and speak better Chinese, enjoy China online and offline.
So let’s go one more time say with me: Happy 牛 Year to all !
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Been following your blog for a while man…keep up the good work and congrats on three months!
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Congratulations Uln, you’ve been doing a great job!
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Uln, you really accomplished a lot in just those three months. I can’t wait to see what other successes the 牛 year brings to Chinayouren. Keep up the great work!
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帅气直追贝克汉姆，国际超人非你莫属！ 春节你方会猛刮金钱风，狠淋钞票雨，狂下金雹银雹，结钻石冰，长翡翠树，挂珍珠霜，生玛瑙果，小心挨砸 祝你一帆风顺，双龙戏珠；三阳开泰，四季发财；五福临门，六六大顺；七星捧月，八面春风；九运当头，十全十美，恭喜恭喜。愿所有的幸福都追随着你。祝Uln牛年快乐。
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Keep on updating President Obama, uln! It’s no surprise to me that your blog is spewing success far and wide, like an overfriendly, nauseous goldcat surfing on a hurricane. (I mean that in the best possible way.)
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Congratulations on three months!
And a question on new year’s resolutions in China. Do people make New Year’s resolutions on CNY day in the same way many people in Western cultures do? I’m co-founder of a website that help people keep resolutions and promises (see the link on my name), trying to figure out whether this is an opportunity ie. whether it makes sense to translate the site into Chinese and find some local charities to work with.
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Congratulations¡ Keep always writing such interesting ideas.
I enjoy reading you, mostly when you tell about Obama. Have a nice hollyday and dont forget to explain that new experience in your blog .
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Thanks to all!
@Andrus: I like the idea of your website. China doesn’t have a tradition of NY Resolutions, but rather of NY wishes. I suppose they are more realistic than us and they know what resolutions are worth, so they prefer to wish good luck instead:) Anyway, I think it is still a good idea to translate the site, you never know what new gadget will attract the 300M surfers of China.
@Xu: Wow, nobody called me a superhero before. Yes, you are right, I’m almost like D.Beckham. Just a bit overweight, with pimples and thick glasses. BTW, I’m available
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ULN, I have just seen that you were linked and quoted several times in the French-speaking GlobalVoiceOnline … you start to be very famous, haha
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