Comments on: WIR: Roh Visits Washington

By: judge judy

judge judy — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:40:20 +0000

above advice is all good. specifically, all the hypertext and quotes make the posting all-but-unreadable.

is there a need for a “week in review” posting, or better yet, is there a want for it. personally, i’m pretty good at putting the week’s events and attendant analyses into a whole and find the “week in review” distracting and cumbersome to the blog.

as for category system, a “week in review” section needs to be implemented if there is actually a new “week in review” posting every week.

By: Kushibo

Kushibo — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:01:49 +0000

Anyway, may I recommend a cease-and-desist on the use of ?€œMiguk?€? and ?€œHanguk?€?? Romanised Korean is fine when helpful or necessary (such as with terms lacking direct English translations such as ?€œajumma?€? or ?€œbulgogi?€?) but using it for ?€œAmerica?€? and ?€œKorea?€? is a bit goofy.Overuse of said terms is often a tell-tale sign of a newbie. Over time, most (?) people learn to use them only when necessary or for powerful effect.

I think there is probably a long list of rookie-esque styles of thought, observation, and writing about Korea that people who are attracted by Marmot’s seasoned punditry will find somewhat objectionable. Marmot gained his punditry by keeping his eyes and ears open for a long time, others got it by going to grad school, but it’s there. Shelton does not have it (yet?) and he might not until he becomes a student of Korea rather than a reporter of it.

By: libertine

libertine — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:05:51 +0000

Firstly I think you are way overdoing the hyperlinks, its as if you are attempting to cram a half dozen different topics into one post.

This post is the Week In Review. I think this merits more hyperlinks than usual.

Anyway, may I recommend a cease-and-desist on the use of “Miguk” and “Hanguk”? Romanised Korean is fine when helpful or necessary (such as with terms lacking direct English translations such as “ajumma” or “bulgogi”) but using it for “America” and “Korea” is a bit goofy.

By: Jing

Jing — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:17:48 +0000

Actually, to readdress that last issue, I think my main pique is that you are using the general category for your posts, which in my opinion is totally worthless because I don’t think its of any use at all on a blog like this which has so many specific topics to broach.

By: Jing

Jing — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:14:21 +0000

I have a few constructive comments I would like to make about your writing. Firstly I think you are way overdoing the hyperlinks, its as if you are attempting to cram a half dozen different topics into one post. The volume of them simply turn people off and people won’t usually click on all of them so they miss out on the entire message you are trying to convey. Second, you are abusing the category system and your posts are winding up all over the place. For example this post is listed under 5, count em, 5 different categories which defeats the entire purpose of having categories at all. It’s best to limit yourself to 1 or 2 or at max 3 per post for the sake of consistency and relevance. Unless of course you are attempting to do a “Korea by Blog” feature such as Simonworld has where there is a listing of disparate blog topics, but I don’t think you are.