The NTSCMP website is getting larger and more confusing every day. Apart from attacks on the SCMP, we have a selection of other columnists (not all of whom can be George Adams) laying into almost anyone and everyone in Hong Kong. It’s good knockabout stuff, though one can’t help wondering whether an ignorance of the…

Phil is now starting to remove dodgy votes. The effect on some of the runners has been dramatic, and I can’t say I’m totally surprised. I have been very suspicious about some of the vote counts (I’m not going to name anyone here) and the figures now look a bit more reasonable. Phil has created…

A pleasant surprise this morning when I read the SCMP on my way to work: Phil’s Asia weblog awards get a good write-up on the front page of the technology section. The amazing thing is that the piece seems to contain no obvious distortion or misunderstanding – Neil Taylor obviously spoke to Phil, listened, understood,…

I haven’t yet mentioned the Asia Weblog awards, though I have had the logo (with a link) up for a few days. Like some others, I am not all that keen on the idea of trying to decide which is the “best” out of a very disparate collection of weblogs, but I do think that…

One interesting aspect of publishing a weblog is finding out how many people are reading it, and how they found out about it. Unsurprisingly, most of my “traffic” comes from links on other Hong Kong weblogs, and a few posts that mention comments I have made. Shaky has linked to two of my posts, and…

Simon has some good knockabout stuff on the achievements of Britain and Australia over the years. Also provides some insight into what people at a certain large international financial institution spend their time doing.

There are many different types of blog, even in Hong Kong. The first one I read was Hemlock’s diary, which is unusual (but not unique) in that it is both anonymous and partially fictional. The way it is written leaves the reader deliberately unsure how much of any particular story might be true, and one…

A certain Hong Kong blogger seems to be taking it all very seriously. He’s off on holiday soon, but doesn’t want his blog to come to a halt whilst he’s away. He’s therefore looking for someone to take over for a few weeks. His ideal candidate is someone who already has a blog, but who…

Everybody else has already linked to this article about Asian blogging, so why should I be different. It reinforces the point that Friday’s piece in the SCMP was fairly hopeless, and highlights a general point that stories in large-circulation newspapers (or the SCMP) tend to be less reliable than smaller-circulation magazines. My favourite publication is…