I have made a few changes to the layout of the blog, as you may have noticed. Little tweaks here and there to help things line up better. I've rearranged some of the stuff on the side also.
Most importantly, I changed the blog links. I added some photography sites that I like, though I have to admit that I wasn't sure if I should put Paul Ajosshi or Hanpig2000 in the photography section of Korean Blog section. They both may move. Or not. If you have a favorite photography blog that you would like to recommend, please tell me in the comments. I'd love to check them out. The digital photography school site is on my google reader, so I get the updates daily. It is a great resource. I know that there are a lot more sources out there. I expect the link list to grow. If one is interested in taking pictures having regular pictures to look at is a great way to inspire yourself to take more pictures, try new techniques, as well as simply see the world a little differently. I also have some flickr feeds that I check out regularly (Urban Seoul, Korean Photo Club, and Korea Images for example). One of them actually meets regularly (Flickr in Seoul) for shooting trips. One of these days...
I also added a section dedicated to food. Fatmanseoul is not there, as the site was down. I don't know if it is a permanent thing or if it is just down for the time being. I'll check back in a few days and if it's up and running, I'll add it. Damn. I just checked it and it is up again. I'd better add it. I removed twelve Korean blogs because they had either moved on from Korea (and the focus has shifted), they have stopped blogging more than a year ago, or the link was no longer active. I've added plenty of new links to blogs that have popped up in the last few years that I've previously neglected. Cultural (in)Differences has a clever name and cartoons that kind of, sort of remind me of hyperboleandahalf, but not as ironic. They are relatively new to Korea and the blog content still has a little of that noobe feel (not meant to be an insult). Also in Korea since 2009 is the WaygookEffect which seems interesting as well, as it has a lot of pop culture-related posts. It has a korean blog list that is full of blogs that I am unfamiliar with that I look forward to perusing. I'll add to my link list as appropriate.
I have removed a few blogs that are somewhat popular blogs, but I just didn't enjoy them anymore. You know the ones... blogs that start off promising and then fail to meet expectations? Let me explain a little. I like reading blogs by people who have just come to Korea. They see everything as brand new and exciting. They make the same blunders that I made years ago. It is quite refreshing to read such blogs. They encourage me to get out and do more. The longer I remain in Korea, the more it all just becomes life. I fail to notice the truly strange and wonderful things that are happening around me. The new blogs (such as the ones I mentioned above) are great for that. However, some bloggers, and I suppose expats in general, seem to make the transition from seeing everything as new and exciting to seeing everything as different and wrong. Some end up staying just one year, others two. A few seem to stay far longer than they should, and they continue to write about how the world they live in is sohorrible difficult.
(I also have to admit that I accidentally deleted the whole list, so when I rebuilt it, I may have left some off that I didn't actually mean to.)
Finally, I have kept the education-related blogs. In fact, I have culled a few dead links as well as added a few new ones to it. I'm sure that list will continue to grow just as the others will.
Most importantly, I changed the blog links. I added some photography sites that I like, though I have to admit that I wasn't sure if I should put Paul Ajosshi or Hanpig2000 in the photography section of Korean Blog section. They both may move. Or not. If you have a favorite photography blog that you would like to recommend, please tell me in the comments. I'd love to check them out. The digital photography school site is on my google reader, so I get the updates daily. It is a great resource. I know that there are a lot more sources out there. I expect the link list to grow. If one is interested in taking pictures having regular pictures to look at is a great way to inspire yourself to take more pictures, try new techniques, as well as simply see the world a little differently. I also have some flickr feeds that I check out regularly (Urban Seoul, Korean Photo Club, and Korea Images for example). One of them actually meets regularly (Flickr in Seoul) for shooting trips. One of these days...
I also added a section dedicated to food. Fatmanseoul is not there, as the site was down. I don't know if it is a permanent thing or if it is just down for the time being. I'll check back in a few days and if it's up and running, I'll add it. Damn. I just checked it and it is up again. I'd better add it. I removed twelve Korean blogs because they had either moved on from Korea (and the focus has shifted), they have stopped blogging more than a year ago, or the link was no longer active. I've added plenty of new links to blogs that have popped up in the last few years that I've previously neglected. Cultural (in)Differences has a clever name and cartoons that kind of, sort of remind me of hyperboleandahalf, but not as ironic. They are relatively new to Korea and the blog content still has a little of that noobe feel (not meant to be an insult). Also in Korea since 2009 is the WaygookEffect which seems interesting as well, as it has a lot of pop culture-related posts. It has a korean blog list that is full of blogs that I am unfamiliar with that I look forward to perusing. I'll add to my link list as appropriate.
I have removed a few blogs that are somewhat popular blogs, but I just didn't enjoy them anymore. You know the ones... blogs that start off promising and then fail to meet expectations? Let me explain a little. I like reading blogs by people who have just come to Korea. They see everything as brand new and exciting. They make the same blunders that I made years ago. It is quite refreshing to read such blogs. They encourage me to get out and do more. The longer I remain in Korea, the more it all just becomes life. I fail to notice the truly strange and wonderful things that are happening around me. The new blogs (such as the ones I mentioned above) are great for that. However, some bloggers, and I suppose expats in general, seem to make the transition from seeing everything as new and exciting to seeing everything as different and wrong. Some end up staying just one year, others two. A few seem to stay far longer than they should, and they continue to write about how the world they live in is so
(I also have to admit that I accidentally deleted the whole list, so when I rebuilt it, I may have left some off that I didn't actually mean to.)
Finally, I have kept the education-related blogs. In fact, I have culled a few dead links as well as added a few new ones to it. I'm sure that list will continue to grow just as the others will.
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