The annual Taiwandeful Taiwan Blog Awards are on again this year and voting has opened today. OzSoapbox is up for the Central Taiwan and General categories so let’s see how I go this year. Last year I ranked 11th overall so I’m curious to see if there’s any change. Like last year at the conclusion [...]
Like most Asian countries where half the population live on the internet in their spare time, in Taiwan blogging and social media are huge. Largely closed off to the internet population at large (for now, the web is still dominated by English), these countries tend to evolve a unique internet culture of their own. Looking [...]
Taiwan is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For some people it’s home, for others it’s China… without the crazy China’ness, a great place to learn Mandarin, a land of cheap delicious foods, a relaxing lifestyle, a place to retire, the last line of defence against China’s aggressive territorial expansion, [...]
I’m going to be ‘out of the office’ till about Monday so rather than completely exhaust myself I’m going to take a temporary hiatus until early next week. Monday we should be good to go and back to our regular publishing schedule. Comments will still function as normal in the meantime but I might be [...]
Jade Lotus Tantra massage is a three step massage course designed to ‘tap into each person’s sensuality, and help them discover parts of themselves that they didn’t know existed or had long forgotten about‘. Sound vague? You betcha, but here’s a bit more of a detailed explanation into the three steps of the Jade Lotus [...]
Late last year the community hub website Taiwanderful ran its annual Taiwan blog awards. With no actual prize on offer, the basic premise around the blog awards is to ‘promote English-language blogs about Taiwan‘. After just over a year of blogging about Taiwan, I decided to enter OzSoapbox as a contender for any of the [...]
On the 28th of January 2009, I went live with my first article on OzSoapbox. Seven hundred and twenty one articles later, here we are and after two years, although I have missed the odd publishing day here or there, I feel that I’ve still got years of writing left in me and tons to [...]
As a publisher who uses Google Adsense, I’m a regular user of Google’s Adsense Keyword Tool. The tool, previously accessibly to anyone, allows publishers and advertisers (both potential and current), to look up a whole host of values specific to certain keywords. Sometime in the last 24 hours Google went ahead and blocked access to [...]
A few days ago I wrote a post asking if people thought there’d be enough value in a seperate MLM blog authored by myself. My articles on Polaris Media Group had seemingly taken on a life of their own but didn’t really fit into the general scope of OzSoapbox. The response I got was mostly [...]
Chinese new year happened over here and I didn’t have any internet access over the last week or so. So naturally one of my wordpress plugins realises I’m not around and decided to go rogue and place undue stress on the hosting database. Hosting company then realise this and disable the database until I get [...]
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