When I tell people that I’ve started yet another website, the first questions I’m typically confronted with are, “what’s the point of it?” and “who’s your audience?” I’ve always been fascinated with web communities in general, and I thought it would be interesting if there was a one-stop-shop resource for anything and everything that...
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Happy birthday, Pandasyu. I attended an over-the-top house party held by Pandasyu for his birthday yesterday. Not only did we have more food and drinks than many third-world countries at the shindig, the full complement of entertainment in every room for every one of the thirty or so guests in the house, along with...
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Blogging on RealTaiwan.com has slowed a tad because I’ve been coding day and night trying to piece together a map interface that will distinguish our site from those of our competitors. Speaking of codes, As a first generation Taiwanese transplant, I used to have a real problem with properly distinguishing my pronunciation between words...
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Ideally, this website will someday embody the varied spirit and passion from its members. From this culmination the world will evidence in tangible form an essence of Taiwan; it may not be comprehensive, but it will be very real. Thanks for stopping by. We will continue on this topic tomorrow. In the mean time,...
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Logically, I’m extremely lucid of the fact that building a successful web community won’t happen overnight, but it’s been well over two days since this website has been up and running… and still no people. :-p In all seriousness, web communities are a funny phenomenon: why is it that certain websites flourish while others...
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