Saturday, January 12, 2008

Changes

It's time to make changes to the Korean Blogs on my sidebar. The Lost Nomad has called it quits. Time to, dare I say it, delete his link. I was keeping it up in the hope that he'd be back. But it seems he's gone for good.

A number of others have left Korea, and as such, perhaps shouldn't be there anymore. Suddenly Susan has moved on (to her new home, here). Miss Koco is done with Korea. Nathan of Seoul Hero has moved back to Canada and started a new blog, which can be found here. Jon from the well-named blog: Seoul-Man has moved on to Japan. I think I'll leave his up because he still writes about Korea. The Party Pooper has moved over to Blogspot, and changed his address (and made threats quoted on the BigHominid's page about leaving petty comments on any blog that does not update. Talk about a party pooper.) I was thinking about removing Seoul Daily Photos because there wasn't a post since March of last year. Then, low and behold, he updated this week. Good save Kais. I found another Seoul Daily photo site to put up, so he's got competition.

That may be the most hyperlinks I've had in a single paragraph.

Anyway, I just wonder... they used to be in Korea... should I take them off completely? Should I make a new category: Former Korean Blogs, or something to that effect? I still look at their new pages (if they have one) from time to time.

Hmmm. I'll make the changes today. I haven't yet... but give me a while. There are some others out there that I check that I'll want to add to the list. While I'm at it, I'm thinking of removing the Korea Herald from my list as well. Mainly because they just piss me off. They've made it impossible to link to their pages and on top of that, they make it impossible to click on a headline (to open in a new tab in Firefox). This is how I check the news: I open a tab for each online newspaper. I then open a tab for each story that I want to read (click on each headline, and it opens in a new tab). Then I read each one, and close the tab. Korea Herald doesn't let you do that, so I'm thinking of taking it off my sidebar. Petty, I know. I probably won't because it is one of the biggest English-language newspapers, and I do read the articles... I'm rambling again.

5 comments:

Kevin said...

Thanks for the mention. Just a note:

"Nathan of Seoul Hero has moved back to Korea"

I'm pretty sure you mean Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada.

"The Party Pooper has moved over to blogspot, and changed his address (and made threats on the BigHominid's page about leaving petty comments on any blog that does not update. Talk about a party pooper.)"

Just to clarify: he made his cyberterrorist threats on his old blog, and I merely quoted them on my page.

Yeah, gotta watch out for that Pooper. Did you catch the Michael Biehn quote with which he opened the new blog?

How're the freshmen girlies treating you? I spoke with Rick and he said they were OK so far, though they're definitely not into grammar. Heh.


Kevin

ExpatJane said...

My suggestion is to put them in a "Former K-Blogger" category or something like that.

For sure, Miss Koco is going to have interesting stuff.

Jon Allen said...

Hi Joe.

Thanks for keeping me on there. You blog provides me with more than a few referrals.

Joe in Korea said...

Kevin, thanks, you're right. A typo on Nathan's and I corrected the info regarding the Pooper.

ExpatJane: I followed your advice. They, especially Miss Koco, deserve a place here.

Jon: with the little traffic that my site generates, I'm sure that the referrals that you receive are just me! Since I do check yours, the best way for me to do that is to keep yours up there.

Plus, I like the name of your blog.

Aaron said...

Hey, look at that: another Portlander (Portland, Oregon?) in Korea. That makes at least two of us.

Thanks for keeping me in the sidebar links. Actually, I hadn't browsed the Korean blogs much lately and didn't realize that the Lost Nomad had shut 'er down, so thanks for bringing that to my attention, too. I ought to put you on full time.

Aaron