Help to clean the directory!

Problems in the Korean Blogs

What Not to do In Asia...Is now What Not to do in Australia

gdimension...is now linked to a bookstore

Celedon...is now linked to the Blogsome homepage

Chosun Bimbo...has a new link at www.stafford.net.nz

Mon Blog...is linked to a site only in Korean

Cypher Abroad...stopped posting in October 2006

Sat Gas Ssi...links to happypaydayloans.com

Live Life Love Life...hasn't posted since Oct 2006

Lady Expats Blog...has some sort of signup requirement

Shot...hasn't posted since July 2006

Other problems...

Under Malaysia

Britishasian...has moved back to Britain

Klite...hasn't posted since October 2006



Under Phillipines

Phillipines Blog...hasn't been updated since July 2006

Ward Tipton...isn't a blog about living in the Phillipines


Under Singapore

Movers & Shakers...isn't really a blog, but an advertisement.

Singapore_souvenir...isn't a blog.


Under Taiwan

Out in the World...never came up, maybe just a temporary prob?

The Forgetful...not in English, Swedish I presume.

psychopompous...seems to link to some advertisement.

I Love Taiwan...hasn't been updated since October.

Mind of Mike...hasn't been updates since August.

Problems Under Vietnam

Our Man in Hanoi...has moved to a new URL

The Rice Bowl...hasn't updated since February 2006

nguyenonline...hasn't posted since October 2006.

Dreaming of Hanoi...has moved to America.

MadMac in Saigon...isn't in English.

xemaybe...password protected.

Target: Vietnam...not a blog, but a business opportunity.

Evietnam Group...dead link.

Living the 'no bull' experience in central Vietnam...not a blog.

Fantastic Natalie, thank you so much! 

I'll arrange all this next week end I am quite busy at work this week

If you detect more unactive blogs, please let me know !

Yet More Probs...

Under Afganistan

Dans le meilleur des mondes possibles...has moved to a new URL.

Wisdom Enroute...Is a Christian blog from Texas.


Under Cambodia

Kampuchea Crossings...has only posted once in the last 9 months.

If you could give me the blog address instead of the title, that would make the changes easier

Once again thank you I really appreciate!

Problems Under China

Dragon Watcher...Is a poker site.

Fat Catapiller...has a new URL.

Tim Kelly...has moved back to America.

matthewstinson.net...hasn't updated since August 2006.

bunny-bytes.com...brings up alternative bunny sites.

Koval's in Shenzhen...hasn't been updated since May 2006.

ScruffyEatsLambchop...hasn't updated since August 2006.

Worldtour in China...hasn't updated since October 2006.

Pandapassport...hasn't updated since October 2006 and seems to be selling stuff.

The Slack Pig's Blog...hasn't been updated since August 2006.

Surviving China by an American Expat...is a dead link.

What's your nem?...is in French.

By the way, I'll install drastic rules & filters to the inscription form very soon.

I would agree to clean the directory.
What do you want to do with the blogs that are unactive for several months ?? Just a piece of advice... do not delete them, it is a big source of information !  ;-)

For Italy

http://expatsinitaly.com/judith/ ... broken link
http://michaelseverini.com/blog/going2italy.html ... closed
http://jehraldyn.co.nr/ ... blog moved to http://dindinsworld.blogspot.com/http://southern-italian-life.blogspot.com/ ... unactive since june 2006
http://stronzinapoli.blogspot.com/ ... unactive since april 2006
http://kishko.blogspot.com/ ... unactive since september 2006
http://sienaitaly.blogspot.com/ ... moved to France
http://www.torinoitaly.blogspot.com/ ... unactive since April 2006
http://winterstars.blog.tiscali.it/ ... broken link
http://bellacaliforniana.blogspot.com/ ... closed
http://bellissimatina.blogspot.com/ ... blog moved to http://expatsinitaly.com/tina/http://www.biebesheimer.com/ ... unactive since july 2006

http://bologne.blogspot.com/ ... back to France

Problems under Japan.

http://sistaintokyo.blogs.com/...hasn't updated since August 2006.

http://klarbooks.com/mmiat...this is not a blog, but an advertisement for a book.

http://www.la2tokyo.com/...hasn't updated since October.

http://jamizo.blog40.fc2.com/...hasn't updated since August.

http://fromadifferenthill.blogspot.com/...redirects to an advertisement.

http://akitagaijin.blogspot.com/...is a bad link.

http://longprongski.spaces.live.com/...hasn't updated since August.

http://www.creativemai.blogspot.com/...has some sort of weird signup requirement.

http://guanoisland.wordpress.com/...not about Japan.

I agree that closed/inactive blogs can be useful.  But I think active blogs should be higher on the list perhaps.  And maybe some useful little icon to notify browsers that blogs are closed or inactive.  Of course the coolest thing would be if they all had RSS feeds, and those blogs that posted most recently showed up at the top with their latest post.

Australia
http://pourlemeilleur.blogdns.com/phil ... broken link
http://omaisforgrandma.blogspot.com/ ... blog moved to http://omaisforgrandma.net/http://www.lifeischocolate.com/ ... bug my computer !

Fiji
http://www.bulafiji.blogspot.com/ ... unactive since june 2006

French Polynesia
ok. checked.

New Caledonia
http://ipiroro.canalblog.com/ ... closed
http://emmanuelvieux.aceblog.fr/ ... blog moved to http://futuna.over-blog.com/

New Zealand
http://smilesnz.tblog.com/ ... blog moved to http://smilesnz.blogspot.com/http://smilesnz.blogspot.com/ ... unactive since september 2006
http://theurbangypsy.blogspot.com/ ... does not work
http://bnjendouble.blogspot.com/ ... back to Canada
http://nznews.over-blog.com/ ... closed

Northern Mariana Islands
ok. checked.

This is the problems for all of Africa...well, I mean the blogs, not what will save the continent.

Burkina Faso


http://adablog.solar-afrika.de/...is in German?



Under Egypt

http://blogg.expressen.se/lundinorient/...not in English.



Guinea Conakry

http://paxissue.blogspot.com/...location is Virginia.


Reunion Island

http://pearl-island.blogspot.com/...hasn't updated since October.



South Africa

http://sanbona.blogspot.com/...complete.


Zambia

http://360degreesofsky.blogspot.com/...finished in January 2006.

http://zambiansafari.blogspot.com/...no posts since October.

I agree that closed/inactive blogs can be useful.  But I think active blogs should be higher on the list perhaps.  And maybe some useful little icon to notify browsers that blogs are closed or inactive.  Of course the coolest thing would be if they all had RSS feeds, and those blogs that posted most recently showed up at the top with their latest post.

I 100 % agree with that!

Thanks laurent for your help

Germany list:

Stringbean abroad: no post since April 19, 06

The global citizen’s life coaching blog: no post since July 6, 06

Mi Página: no post since Aug. 8, 06

Expat Odyssey: Danger! My server found a virus at that link

Central America has been checked.


Barbados

http://www.dakota.co.uk/blog ...no updates since July.

http://jerristephenson.blogspot.com/ ...in Texas.

http://runawayrubberduckie.blogspot.com/ ...a blog about world travel, not specific to Barbados.



Costa Rica

http://phototohx.canalblog.com/ ...no posts since Jan 2006.

http://jacquelinepassey.blogs.com/ ...moved to Vegas and moved her website.

http://www.costaricajones.com/ ...password protected.

http://kerributler.blogspot.com/ ...moved back to the US.

http://costa-rica-bound.blogspot.com/ ...moved back to the states.

http://scott.thebutlerfamily.com/ ...moved back to the states.

http://www.e4costarica.com/360/blogs/osablog ... no new posts since November.



Dominican Republic

http://www.dr1.com/blogs/?u=carina ... has moved to http://stepsandstories.wordpress.com/http://avocadolibrian.blogspot.com/ ... bad link.

http://dr1.com/blogs/?u=sunshine79 ... disabled account.

http://www.dr1.com/blogs/?u=MommC ... no updates since October.

http://puertoplatablog.blogspot.com/ ... dead link.

http://dr-expatriateguide.blogspot.com/ ... not really a blog.

Can you wait a few days? I have to edit/delete quite a lot of blogs now

I've got a couple of days off next week I'll take some time to arrange everything.

Spain:

http://ankugoertzen.blogspot.com/, hasn't poste since Feb 06

http://mizbohemia.blogspot.com/ adult content..but working

http://www.mylifeinspain.blogspot.com/moved, in Jan 06, gives a forward

http://www.secret-tenerife.com/news/ is this a blog?  A little strange

http://tucats.blogspot.com/ moved, gives a forward

bigtitsandpussy.blogspot.com, didn't check it..it got filtered by my server

http://tenerifescribbler.blogspot.com/ no update since March 06

http://liliandtheworld.blogspot.com/   no update since sept 06

http://andalucianvillage.blogspot.com/No updatw since nov 06, not all that long ago but

http://lwmaria.blogspot.com/ no update since Aug 06

spaindad.blogspot.com  bad link..never came up

http://livingthespanishdream.blogspot.com/ dead link

There you go.

Eastern Europe

Azerbaijan

http://bakublog.com/ ... hasn't been updated since September.



Bosnia-Herzegovina

http://theneurotictraveler.blogspot.com/ ... has moved to England.



Croatia

http://www.livejournal.com/users/strangernmoscow ... back in the states.



Cyprus

http://blogsofrealplay.com/Members/Seraphim ... back in England and no posts since October.



Czech Rep

http://www.visitingeu.com/central-europe/czech-republic ... isn't a blog.



Estonia

http://tuesdaysintartu.blogspot.com/...only ever had four entries that ended in May 2006.



Hungary

http://10sc-stars.blogspot.com/ ... not in English.

http://parishuit.blog.lemonde.fr/ ... not in English.



Poland

http://www.warsawtoparis.blogspot.com/ ... back in the UK.

http://warsawcrow.blogspot.com/ ... no posts since October.

http://www.mrmerrett.wordpress.com/ ... moved to http://www.jmerrett.com/blog/



Russian Federation

http://maaskva.blogspot.com/ ... hasn't updated since October.

http://weblogrussia.blogsit.ru/ ... not in English.

http://www.inmoskau.de/blog/ ... not in English.



Serbia

http://thenativespeaker.blogspot.com/ ... complete.

http://desperateserbwife.blogspot.com/ ... complete.



Ukraine

http://connard.blogspot.com/ ... no posts since March.

http://pinoysphere.com/sarita ... is listed twice, this is the old site link.

http://meinkiew.blogspot.com/ ... not in English.

Middle East

Middle East

Bahrain

http://www.expats-in-bahrain.over-blog.com/ ... not a blog.


Jordan

http://palestine-vs-israel.blogspot.com/ ... no updates since November, and this is not an Expat.com, he's in Palestine.

http://osaidr.blogspot.com/ ... same blogger as above, with the same set of issues.



Kuwait

http://happywolf.vox.com/ ... moved to http://www.happy-wolf.blogspot.com/.



Saudi Arabia

http://expat.fil.ph/ ... dead link.



Turkey

http://istanbulexpat.blogspot.com/ ... no posts since October.

http://humanrightsinturkey.blogspot.com/ ... complete.





United Arab Emirates

http://www.sanchezsez.blogspot.com/ ... has moved to  http://www.abezsez.com/http://abudhabievents.blogspot.com/ ... no posts since April 2006.

http://photounituae.blogspot.com/ ... no posts since October.

http://web.mac.com/fisher527/iWeb/Dubai … /Blog.html ... no posts since October.

OK. Inscriptions are closed as we're maintaining the directory.

To let you know where we're going:

I'll develop a system that will allow us to modify the blog data, for example if the Expat.comger moved to another country or if he went back home.

We'll use RSS to know the date of the latest post on the blog, and I'll develop  a new classification system in the directory (integrating the date of the latest post). There are still a couple of technical issues but we'll arrange that very soon.

All broken links must be removed from the directory.

Natalie, Loloieg, could you please give me a couple of weeks before reporting me more problems in the directory?

no problem with me ... Natalie did much more than me so...

Idea (??) ... in the future directory you can add a button to report a broken link (as other blogs directory)

Anyway, that will be nice for sure !!

loloieg wrote:

Idea (??) ... in the future directory you can add a button to report a broken link (as other blogs directory)

Yes I also had the idea of "report button" ... actually I'd like to add a button that launches a menu with the following options:

> report a broken link
> report  bad content
> report a change (the blogger moved for example)
> vote for this blog

Do not hesitate to complete this list if you're thinking about other interresting features

As we've also got problems with quality of the registered blogs, I'd also like to set up new acceptance rules such as:

> we don't accept blogs with less than 10 posts (or 2 months existance)
> we don't accept blogs with too much adsense blocks

and in the directory we'll separate
> student blogs
> "in-patriates" (is that the good word?) for those who went back home. Their blog should be located in their home country.
> "sleeping blogs", that haven't been updated for more than 2 months

What do you think?

The word your looking for is Repatriation or Repats, for people who have moved home again.  I suggest a couple more categories.  One for closed/finished blogs.  They can be very interesting, and you can read them from front to back, instead of most blogs.  Also I would find it helpful if blogs were catagorized by political blogs, news blogs, or business blogs...so I can avoid them like the plague.  I'm looking to read about people living everyday lives in a new place.  Just a thought.  And as for waiting to tell you about other problems, I would rather just keep posting now, and you can get to them whenever you want.  Otherwise, it will never happen.  Like I said, I'm just letting you know about bad links, not pressuring you to get them changed anytime soon.

not pressuring you to get them changed anytime soon

Oh dear, I am already pressuring by myself you know

I have to completely redevelop the directory but I am sure you'll like the way it's gonna be

Oh mah gosh!
That's the hell of a work! Y'all make a good team

Yep, I haven't moved/deleted the reported blogs but I am thinking about a new way to manage the blog directory. It will take me a while to developp that tool but I am sure you'll really like it!

In one sentence, let's say that "the way to administrate the directory will be more participative" ... stay tuned!

Ah, the mystery

Well, you know how IT jobs are ... always "evolving" with new technologies ... and I've also got technical limits

I am currently looking for a developer who could help me a little bit on a very specific part of code (it's a bit more complicated than what I thought).

Note that I am in contact with fantastic people who are explaining me interesting/technical things! (thanks Paul for your emails)

It took me a while but I deleted a lot of unvalid links (under Asia).

I definitely need to program something that will make the maintenance automatic.

But dear, it's more complicated than what I thought ... (and I am trying to tackle with 235 things in the same time)

About re-pats, do you think their blog should be located in their home country or should they stay in the country they've been living in (abroad)?

I've also made a list of 57 broken links, 3 private blogs. I'd like to contact their editor before I delete their data.

I would say the home country.

Julien, I've told you for months that I could maintain the directory.
C'est quand tu veux! Give me the keys

Ok I've just finished to send 62 emails to members whose blog address isn't working anymore (and to private blogs).

I hope they'll send me their new address. Otherwise I'll delete their address/account next week

Some inactive blogs found in the Germany list:

Stringbean abroad - last post April 19, 2006
http://homepage.mac.com/alison_petersen/iblog/

In actual fact - Doesn't live in Germany anymore
http://www.inactualfact.com/


Last post October 20, 2006
The Capital Letter
http://berlinbear.blogspot.com/

Last posted May 26, 2006
http://agitpropolis.blogspot.com/

URL not found
http://roadwarrior.blogs.com/

No longer lives in Germany:
http://blondelibrarian.net/blog

Last posted May 26, 2006
Lydia Finch's blog
http://www.segebrecht.com/lydia/

Last posted July 12, 2006
Alice in Germany
http://aliceingermany.blogspot.com/

Last posted July 26, 2006
Berlin Diary
http://berlindiary.wordpress.com/

Last posted August 5, 2006
http://edandthekebab.blogspot.com/

Last posted May 3, 2006
http://essayhouse.pitas.com/

comet1 wrote:

Some inactive blogs found in the Germany list:

Stringbean abroad - last post April 19, 2006
http://homepage.mac.com/alison_petersen/iblog/

Stringbean just started posting again a week or two ago!

New Zeland - L'itineraire d'un enfant gaté... armandnz.blogspot.com
has gone back to Europe.

Ok it took me a while but the first version of admin tool is now ready

I've deleted about 50 broken links. I will now check the listings above ...