A pleasant surprise and an honor too -- we've been nominated for a 2010 Bloggie (The Weblog Awards). If you appreciate what we do here, please hop over now to the Bloggie voting page, scroll right to the Asian Blog section, and give us your vote. Be sure to enter your real email address; after voting you'll be sent an email with a link you'll have to click in order to verify your vote.
Voting closes Sunday January 31st.
Many thanks!
I imagine you'd get more votes if you'd return to the previous RSS feed style displaying more of the thread and ideally a picture or two. As you run a blog I am sure you're aware that every major RSS reader and social networking page out there has functions to share RSS articles. I must have brought at least 8 subscribers to your blog through sharing it with my meager list of friends on Google Reader. Granted I can still share your posts but the 2 or 3 sentence blurbs now aren't going to get many people to click and see what the fuss is about.
Posted by: Deng Huang | 2010.01.22 at 13:20
Congrats. Very well deserved. Hope you have more luck that I did :)
Posted by: Graham | 2010.01.22 at 14:19
Agreed with Deng Huang - I really love reading your blog, but I hate the use of the stripped-down RSS version.
Posted by: mike | 2010.01.22 at 14:35
I've done, surely... crossing my fingers!!!
Posted by: the lacquer spoon | 2010.01.22 at 15:35
Deng Huang and Mike - Thanks for your support. I haven't adjusted our RSS and I've been back and forth with Typepad over the last couple wks abt it; they say there's no problem, I say there is. Hopefully we can get this resolved in the near future. Your patience is appreciated.
Graham - Thanks Graham. If we win great, if we don't, oh well. The recognition is appreciated though.
Posted by: Robyn | 2010.01.22 at 17:43
Done the vote -pleasure.
I personally have no problem about the RSS style, for me, when a thread provides too much, I felt I've read it and left. Whereas, if it's just a 'headline', that's exactaly the reason why I want to go in and discover 'what the fuss is about'! But I do agree, photos catch eyes and most readers don't read photo-less blogs (I don't!)
I like the idea of the award prize 2010 cents! Lovely!
Posted by: Katy Biggs | 2010.01.22 at 19:02
Voted! Many thanks for keeping me entertained with your brilliant blog. Keep up the great work
Posted by: Paul Bowler | 2010.01.22 at 20:40
VOTED!
Posted by: Michelle | 2010.01.23 at 00:49
I just found our blog while going through the votes! I love eating and cooking Asian foods so I will definitely be following your blog now! I glanced at a few posts and LOVE the pictures!!
Posted by: Sandy | 2010.01.23 at 01:16
Done.
Posted by: Rasa Malaysia | 2010.01.23 at 02:53
Voted!
I love your blog-- wonderful writing and amazing pictures. Keep it up. Your blog is one of my daily must-reads.
Your posts have inspired me to be a food and photojournalist "when I grow up".
Posted by: Teri Y | 2010.01.23 at 04:10
Love your blog and pleasure's all mine. Voted!
Posted by: Jencrafted | 2010.01.23 at 05:40
Voted for you. Good luck !
Posted by: borneoboy | 2010.01.23 at 07:00
You've got my vote, and my wife's as well. We voted using different computers at work!
All the best!
Posted by: bayi | 2010.01.23 at 20:30
Just voted for you - congratulations and good luck!
Posted by: Tangled Noodle | 2010.01.24 at 04:28