Somebody noticed!
A little under a year ago, Philip at London Korean Links wrote an article called “Who’s Who in the Korean Blogsophere,” which was very nice to The Marmot’s Hole, and led to an interesting conversation about the state of Korea blogs at London Links and also at Brian in Jeollanam-do’s site, in an article with one of my favorite BiJND post titles ever: “I Drive a Dodge Stratus“ (SNL references always win points with Roboseyo).
Well, ol’ Philip has written an update on that article, expressing a bit of surprise at how much can change in half a year plus change, and given The Hub Of Sparkle a very kind review, drawing attention to the Golden Klog results, and adding links to a handful of his favorites in various Golden Klog categories.
Thanks for noticing, Philip, and have a good one.
-Roboseyo
16/02/2009 at 1:03 pm Permalink
I dunno, “contributions” from Roboseyo and Stafford? You two do the whole site, regardless of who “spearheaded” it. Sorry to see that with the dozen or so contributors, you two do everything. But on second thought, maybe not sorry . . . you’re a good 1-2 punch. I don’t really want to read much of the other contributors, and am happy with what you two are doing. Just too bad others are resting on their laurels after such heralded and spam-tastic opening.
16/02/2009 at 2:31 pm Permalink
Mark does a few things.
16/02/2009 at 6:46 pm Permalink
Steve does too, as does FatmanSeoul, and Mike Hurt still ranks second behind only yours truly for most posts.
But thanks, Brian.
16/02/2009 at 9:19 pm Permalink
To be frank, I still do not really know what types of posts Hub of Sparkle readers desire most, so I try my best to post things which can relate somehow to “hub” or “sparkling.”
16/02/2009 at 9:55 pm Permalink
I like to think of The Hub of Sparkle as something kind of like the culture pages:
if Korea’s a big multi-section newspaper, Marmot and ROK Drop are the Front Page section; Brian and Korea Beat are the Breaking News wire, and I like to think of The Hub Of Sparkle as the “culture and life” section, –commentary, culture, lifestyles, food, art, pop, events– so if it would fit in the “culture and life” section of a newspaper, there’s a chance it’ll end up here (if I have the free time to write it up.)
18/02/2009 at 4:32 am Permalink
I saw the London Links article and was going to post some comments on what I think is going in a not so good direction with his blog, but I was tired and put it off until the next morning.
At the point there had been an exchange involving King Baeksu, things apparently got out of hand (I don’t know in what way because King Baeksu’s comments and the follow-ups were removed, so it’s difficult to see if KB was the instigator or the victim or both), and comments were closed.
By the way, I think it’s intellectual laziness to just rely on the Korea Blog List to see what’s out there in the Korean blogs. For ideological reasons, I refuse to have mine listed there.
(My thoughts on Marmot’s Hole in a nutshell: Marmot has relied lately too much on guest bloggers who are just not up to his standard of quality, but he lately has seemed to recognize this. Shelton was the worst example, but some of the others seem to put up a lot of below-par stuff. I do like Wangkon and Sonagi’s stuff, though. It appears to be Marmot-quality.)
18/02/2009 at 2:27 pm Permalink
I did see that discussion, and as far as I can tell, someone had impersonated a prominent K-blogger and posted inflammatory comments.
I’m giving Robert a pass for the way he runs The Hole, basically because he and his buds still pull up a lot of useful stuff, and he’s doubtless super-busy working on Seoul Magazine…meanwhile, I think some of the other K-blogs (korea beat, brian, rok drop and a few others) more than pick up the slack.
18/02/2009 at 4:05 pm Permalink
I’m giving Robert a pass for the way he runs The Hole, basically because he and his buds still pull up a lot of useful stuff, and he’s doubtless super-busy working on Seoul Magazine…meanwhile, I think some of the other K-blogs (korea beat, brian, rok drop and a few others) more than pick up the slack.
I don’t know. The Marmot has a unique knack for objectively presenting an issue and cutting to the heart of it. He’s been very lazy about that lately, and his guest bloggers aren’t adequate fill-in.
And without his occasional chiming in in the
whine cellarcomments section, that place gets out of hand quickly. It’s a veritable Lord of the Flies scenario.Oh, and by “unique” I mean the Korean usage of the word: Not the only one, but one just a few.