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I haven't used Ycool in so long that I've forgotten the password. I decided last night that I would update this blog, but after waiting several hours for Ycool to send me a password reset link, I got restless and started looking at alternate blog hosting platforms.

My first thought was of Tumblr, which I had previously considered using to introduce new release Chinese films using an format similar to this. But, I feel a bit old for fanboy blogging and to be honest, I don't watch that many Chinese films.

Sina, Sohu, Blogger, WordPress...I want a host that isn't likely to censor my posts and will allow me to continue using the same subdomain as this blog. Still being something of a bridge blogger, I started looking at Korean blog host platforms. Nate, owned by the massive SK Telecom conglomerate, was the first option I looked at. Nate not only does blogs, but operates its own instant messaging client, NateOn, which comes in English but not if you are a Mac.

Or so I thought, until I downloaded the install package and was immediately served with an English-language interface.



From there, I got distracted and ended up reading about Korean P2P networks, Pruna and Soribada.

CyWorld and Naver have the most to offer in terms of blogging and all other integrated web 2.0/social networking/microblogging resources, and there's even a Chinese-language CyWorld, but without English-language service both are likely to be more difficult to get into and the former brings you back to Nate (although maybe…). I also rejoined FB this month after offing myself there in 2008, so, looking at basic blog hosts, I found

Tistory
Blogin
Egloos.

By now you might have guessed that Ycool eventually sent me a way to regain access to this blog. They did, but only after I sent a second password recovery request just now, and it's single-use only so without my original password I'm going to have to re-request a temporary pass every time I want to post. Quirky, but not ideal.

Last year, I spent a few minutes exploring non-English blog host platforms, and I remember thinking about joining Jeeran then. It looks like I'll be going with one of the above options, though, but if I pick up a few words of Korean in the process I can always sign up and see if there's an Arabic text editor that will let me write naeroK. I'll let you know when I pick a new home.

Oh right, last night's post. I just wanted to post this chunk of what catches this literary magazine submissions screener's eye WRT poetry:

I like to see concrete detail in quantities appropriate to the poem—a sense that everything happening isn’t all in the poet’s head, or that said head isn’t lodged anywhere that precludes him or her from observing the specifics of the world outside the head. I like oddball subject matter. A poem containing a mechanical clothes-presser, or a moray eel, or an outhouse, may not be so much better by that than the one with a dove or a dead dog, but surprise is generally one quality of the best poems, and it’s a lot easier to get there with a leech farm than by trying to say something entirely new about love qua love. I like some attention to sound—if I can’t tell why the line breaks are where they are, or find any internal rhymes or slant-rhymes or loose rhythm, so much the worse. I like poems that wring language a little, make it strain and work…but not to the point where it’s wrung dry, where the phrasing is so “original” that no one can tell to what it literally refers. And I like a poem that’s willing to shout, to make outrageous claims, to make a fool of itself and dance around and show its underwear: so many poems are so cautious, so muted, so minor in key. Some poems’ goals seem so…small.

A final note, I chose Ycool back in 2007 because I somehow got the impression that it was precisely the most liberal Chinese blog service platform at the time, meaning its staff were the laziest when it came to enforcing the limits of speech imposed on them from above. When I logged in earlier and clicked Add New Post, I was redirected to the below message before being allowed to open the page I wanted:

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见： 中国网民文化节即将隆重启动

雷倒我的不是他们在组织这种活动这个事情本身，而是我看到了以后，第一个想法是：”难道我比他们还要谨慎？“

行不行啊？反正就得支持一下！

是前天发布了：《中国网民文化节即将隆重启动》

活动称《网民节》，12321举报受理中心承办的，日期还没定下来，现在我们可以去投票，1月6日公布网民节将何时举行，同天公布网民节的logo，和网民行为调查的结果。

官方介绍：

   由中国互联网协会主办的中国网民文化节启动典礼（http://www.wangminjie.cn/，以下简称“网民节”）将在2009年1月6日隆重揭幕。

    近50多家网络媒体参与了“网民节”日期的调查海选活动，共收到近数十万的网民选票。活动组委会将目前票数最多的三个日期进行复选阶段的评选，除了网民投票外，还会邀请相关专家进行深度的评议，最终确定设立“中国网民文化节”的日期，现已进入倒计时阶段。

    届时，活动组委会将在启动典礼上将公布“网民节的日期”、揭晓“网民节的徽标（Logo）”、“中国网民行为调查”报告发布。三大亮点、轮番登场，拭目以待！

    一、揭晓网民节的具体日期

    经过全国各地网民数月的网上及手机投票评选和征集意见，由2.53亿网民选定自己的节日无疑将是本次启动仪式最大的看点。广泛征集网民意见后，很多网友纷纷留言表示，网民节的创立和开展是值得让人期待的。

    二、发布“中国网民行为的调查结果”

    该项调查是由中国互联网协会（ISC）、艾瑞咨询集团（iResearch)等机构联合组成"网民研究组"，历时３个多月，采集问卷十多万份。调查内容涵盖网民最关注的年度事件、话题，最受网民欢迎的网络红人，网络语言、网络名词、网络品牌。此外还包括网民生活中最常用的电脑、打印机、数码相机、手机、汽车、饮品、服饰、化妆品、银行、酒店、航空公司、软件等等，针对网民这一庞大的用户群进行广泛深入的研究调查。

    三、“为网民服务”高峰论坛

    本次高峰论坛的主题为“推广健康网民文化，共建和谐网络新风”，（www.wangminjie.cn/dianli/）针对中国互联网、无线网、反垃圾邮件等各个领域的未来发展面临的新机遇和挑战，供与会代表研讨、交流，力求为中国互联网及无线网事业谋求新思路献计献策。届时，将有来自政府主管部门、基础电信运营企业、各大互联网企业等高层代表将应邀出席大会。此外，中国互联网协会每年举办的 “会员新春联谊会”也将在当晚举行。

    中国互联网协会将带领互联网企业及业内专家，向互联网最基础的元素——广大网民，寻求应用与创新的生存之路，探讨网民文化的建设及发展趋势；探索网络应用及未来发展的新思路、新观念。全力打造适合网民需求、有助于网络健康发展的网民精神家园。

很好的，终于可以说我们网民有自己的文化！不止可以参加，还可以合作。还会讨论到中国网民文化里面英雄：

网络世界，谁与争锋？互联网有这样的魅力将天下各路英雄网聚在一起，共商互联网发展之大计，为广大网民再现当年“华山论剑”的不朽传奇。

政府官员、IT精英、文化名流、成功人士汇聚一堂，各路英雄豪杰手握“英雄帖”，唇枪舌剑，激情飞扬。在互联网相关政府监管部门的指导下，行业成功者的积极探索中，论当前社会热点与焦点问题，话网络英雄的成功经验；忆往昔岁月网络脉搏的发展，展未来网民文化发展走向，加强网民对网络安全知识的普及，提高全体网民的综合素质。论坛的第二部分将会就互联网专业技术领域进行深入探讨与交流，通过交流和沟通产生共鸣，共同推进网络世界的和谐发展，促进互联网行业的茁壮成长壮大。

但是，除了北京太远，还有两个事情让我犹豫：

1。全天门票票价为1880元我觉得太贵，如果降到100到200元也许会更有吸引力；
2。我发现很大部分这个网民节将讨论的内容也包括反对垃圾邮件，反对恶意软件等互联网管理者不能避免的重要话题。但我电击打开《网络盛典》的时候看到了《我的网络明星》，那张图片里面看到很多面熟的中国网络精英，但同时也看到好像有几个香港的明星的图片：谢霆锋，成龙，刘德华，陈慧林，还有一个不知道是不是⋯⋯舒淇？只想提问，除了反对垃圾邮件和恶意软件以外，网民节上会不会讨论到知识产权，版权等话题？或者起码，知识共享？据说知识共享@中国大陆他们在中国很榜样。