For those who might prefer to use a 100% Made-in-Korea blogging engine, Tatter Tools has a pretty sweet looking engine developed by a one Jeong Jae-hoon available for download. Downloaded it myself to play around with, and if you’re thinking of starting up a blog, it’s definitely worth considering.
Also, be sure to check out Blog Korea, which is basically a Korean blog community. Signed up myself, and added the banner to my sidebar.
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Marmot, you’re pulling 3,000 uniques per day. How much bandwidth is your site using these days? Why do you pay for the bandwidth? You utilize the chosun ilbo pretty consistently, though not exclusively, as your source, thus boosting traffic to the English version, thus boosting revenue, thus ensuring you continue to have a job (You do work for them, right?). Is the boost to the chosun really worth the hosting costs?
KrZ: Huh? Maybe he should hit them up to pay for his bandwidth…?
Marmot: How does Tatter Tools work? Does it work with a blog host, or do you have to be running your own server, or what? I’m glad to see you’re reaching out to the Korean blogging community (although you may now start seeing angry posts from Netizens on some topics!); there seems to be a huge divide between the Korean and English blogging communities.
KrZ — bandwidth is not cheap, and it always seems to run out toward the end of the month. As for hitting up the Chosun for my bandwidth costs, well, I don’t think that request would go over too well. Anyway, it’s not my Chosun-related posts that are driving up my hit counts.
Curious — As for Tatter Tools, it works like Wordpress or MT, i.e., you need to be running your own server. Like WP, it’s a breeze to install. I think it took me all of five minutes. What I haven’t figured out about it, however, is how to import data from WP, although by searching through their help forums, I saw ways to import from other engines.
Now, discussing the divide between the Korean and English blogging communities, I think that’s always going to be there, mostly on account of language. The way to rectify this, of course, would be to blog in Korean. That being said, I hope through Blog Korea we can start at least some interaction.
I don’t think Robert has to worry about any angry netizens as he’s not a Korea basher and tends to stay close to the neutral zone when it comes to emotional/controversial issues.
One doesn’t need to be a Korea basher in order to attract bad attention. I doubt few here would call me a Korea-basher, but I have been viciously attacked — up close and personal — by uber-nationalists who thought that my opinion upset their world view too much.
If he is just seen as providing a forum for Korea bashers, that may be enough to set some people off.
One must also consider that the English-language medium of this blog would tend to weed out most people. You would be left with those native-Korean speakers who happened to be good enough at English to want to participate, those who thought that reading/writing here would be a good way to achieve cultural interaction and/or language practice, or (this is the group I worry about) those whose English skills are not that great but who go trawling for things that might make them upset.
Kushibo — Yes, that’s always possible, and it is a concern, especially when some might mistake comments made on this blog with the opinions of the blogger. I’m not going to going to worry myself too much about that, though.
LOL, through should be throw…sigh, I’m trying to get my fishing gear ready for a Sunday afternoon outing, burn DVDs, and catch up on blogs at the same time. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
I don’t find that bandwidth is that expensive. I don’t use much but I get 50gb/month and I only pay $6.95.
I tried to visit blog Korea, but the site kept timing out on me. Later this month I’m going to install tatter on my space and see if I can navigate through it. I really wish that my software came with a Korean language pack, but so far no-one has translated it and I don’t have the skills. Apparantly if you translate it, you can have a free copy ($150 value). Any takers? It’s really powerful.Now, discussing the divide between the Korean and English blogging communities, I think that?€™s always going to be there, mostly on account of language. The way to rectify this, of course, would be to blog in Korean. If anyone wants to practice their Korean blogging skills you are more than welcome to join my Korean learning blog where we write in a mix of Korean and English: ??œ????´ ??°??????
BTW, the link to Blinger is dead, I’ve changed domains to http://eflgeek if you would be so kind as to update it.
After I noticed that the Asian Girls White Guys thread was pushing 250 comments, I got a little nervous. The Alexa rank looks to be reaching critical mass too. Then again the Marmot’s own sitemeter shows less than a million across the history of the site, so I guess the bandwidth isn’t as bad as I thought. It just made me wonder how far Marmot was willing to go, if there was ever a conflict on the penninsula I could see this place exploding.
Damnit, I didn’t close my tags
Marmot, exactly how much bandwith do you get for how much? I think you might be getting ripped off.