The Chinese Blogger Conference will take place in Hanzhou this weekend. To prepare for the conference, the organizers announced a submission of posts on “How blogging has changed my life?”
Keso has reviewed the posts and yesterday announced the best two. The two bloggers, Zola and Xiao Mei, were awarded with two free tickets to the conference.
So how blogging has changed their lives?
Zola: Transformed by Blog: A story of blogger nicknamed Zola
没写Blog之前,认识我的人不会超过1000人。写了几年BLOG后,我估计知道我的名字的人超过了1000人,我也因BLOG认识了许多同龄人和前辈,阅读量大了许多,社交范围也大了许多,Gtalk上的联系人名单都有927人,这927人里有些是向我要过GMAIL邀请的,有些是我在BLOG上公布GTALK联系方式后加上我的,虽然没有多少人找我说话,但我相信,他们中间至少有一半是知道我的名字的人。
Xiao Mei: A fake blogger's blogging life:
04年7月底的时候,有了自己第一个blog,依稀记得那是在榕树下的子网站上,在此之前我更热衷于在一些bbs上灌水,我并不太喜欢猫扑和天涯,这上面的人太多,像我那么平凡的注定会被淹没,所以我喜欢一些小但温情的地方。而对blog的第一定义是:自己的一个个人网页。陆续的更新一些内容,自己的情绪,组织的聚会以及自己看到并喜欢的一些文字。那时候的blog对于我来说更像一个杂烩大拼盘,每天的点击量还不错,能够满足我的虚荣心,只是大多是过客,时间久了有点腻…
…05年7月,值得永远记得的日子。我的blog上的朋友,上海的、广州的、南京的、新西兰的…..朋友通过网络、通过blog“勾结”在一起,默默地为我准备了一份特殊的生日礼物。
… July 2005, a date I will remember in my whole life. Friends from my blog: from Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanking, New Zealand, etc… they secretly work through the internet and prepare a very special birthday present for me together.
There is a special piece written by Xin yuan-kang, a blind blogger.
Xin yuan-kang: Blog-spiritual window for black eyes
今年初,听朋友们说,时下网络上流行写博客。人人都可以通过博客记录下自己的所思所想,曾经或是此时此刻的心情和情感。与他人共同分享你的喜怒哀乐。这道是个让人眼前一亮的好消息。这种形式对我来说,应该是再适合不过了。我甚至想好了自己要在博客上发表的第一篇文章的题目。就叫“给心灵开一扇小窗”。…
…在我坚持写博客的这半年中,虽然觉得它对我的小店的宣传并没起到多大的作用,应该说,这也是在我预料之中的事情。因为看我的博客,并且喜欢做推拿的朋友,并不一定都和我生活在同一所城市。但是,我们的客户,看过我的博客之后,都对我们的按摩医生说:“看了你们的博克,感觉到你们是那样的热爱生活,对生活充满信心。这一点,让我们感到十分敬佩。”。
… I have been writing for half year by now, although it does not really help my small business, actually, I have anticipated that. Because for those who are reading my blog or friends who enjoy massage, they are not neccessarily staying in my city. However, some of our customers, after reading my blog, they told our massage therapists that: “After reading your blog, I have a feeling that you are so keen about life, so confident about living. I really feel respectful…”
All other submissions can be found at the comment section of the annoucement (zh).