After I made this site, one of the first things I tried to do was to integrate myself into the wider blogging community. Being based back in brisneyland, I had 2 choices. Join my local Brisbane blog community, or alternatively, an Australia-wide webring called aussieblogs. Aussieblogs was created and designed by an aussie expat in London, who did a fine job constructing and running the site. It all got too demanding for him and eventually he off-loaded it to another consortium. All seemed dandy when I left Oz.

But checking at work yesterday (don't tell tha man), I read...

Closed (again). Probably for good, but you never know.

I was shocked. It was a really cool site. now I'm not too sure where I can keep up with an oz-blog community, except those linked over at livejournal which is a little like a high school gossip party in my opinion. ;) Any ideas on a substitute lurkers?

I have also registered with GeoURL, a cool initiative that integrates global positioning data and local searching. It allows you to search sites in your local area. Cool idea, but requires a lot of code changes to your pages. Good thing I worked php includes and other modules into my MT installation. That made it a lot easier. If you use Firefox, you can get a good GeoURL plugin, and watch for the little globe symbol at the bottom of your browser to be highlighted in green and blue. Click on it, and you're off to a listing of websites in and around your immediate area. Nice.

Now considering my current memberships to webrings, and that I've been living in China for almost 2 months, it was more than due to find a local webring. Enter Sinosplice's China Blog List. Linda signed both of our blogs up for this list late last month. It's a huge list, and it has also introduced me to many more blogs based in China - some great, some not-so-great.

So I'm part of the wider China blog community now. What a media tart.

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