Category: Blogs & Blogging

Look who’s not going to be posting very much for a while  …. And from the looks of things, well worth it.  Congratulations to the new dad and the lovely Mrs. Richardson on their 24-hour, 7-day, 120-decibel bundle of joy.

My friend Richardson has announced the launch of a new blog covering his non-Korea material:  Area Studies.  Update your blogrolls and bookmarks accordingly.  I hope this won’t mean less reading at DPRK Studies, but something tells me that other  demands on Richardson’s time are about to increase dramatically, so I wish him the best.

I’ve added three new sites to the blogroll under “Human Rights Sites,” be sure to give them a look: Frequent commenter USinKorea has put up a very good North Korea Human Rights 101 page for those new to the topic, with numerous links to both scholarly reports and videos he edited himself.  He calls it North Korea:  Our Holocaust Now. During North Korea Freedom Week, I met a very congenial young woman from PSALTNK, a new Christian human rights site...

What a pinkie ring is in the Lucchese family, a Big Hominid icon is among K-bloggers. Thanks, Kevin. 

The Camp 16 Google Earth post keeps giving, and it looks like traffic is pouring in from another big link.  Brace yourself to lose access to this site for a  few [sarcasm tag]  agonizing hours, and many thanks to all of you who have gotten this story into chatroom circulation.  The proliferation of this story in chatrooms absolutely dwarfs the circulation it can get in blogs.  Truly stunning. Anyway, welcome ehowa (may not be safe for work) readers.  First time...

[Update:   What happened?  I discovered the extraordinary power of Digg.com.  Someone liked this post and put it on Digg, and  the entry  ended up getting 1900 diggs, even making it to Page One.  Other chatrooms in France, Spain, Japan, and elsewhere picked it up next.  I ended up getting over 50,000 hits on that one post over the course of about 4 days (by comparison, an Instalanche is usually worth between 2,500 and 3,500).  All I can say —...

I just realized that I passed my three-year bloggiversary two weeks ago.  I won’t link to any of the content, because the writing is just that hideous, but I give myself credit for unexpected persistence.  I expected to have quit out of sheer  wearniness by now.  Thanks to each of you for reading, commenting, debating, or just taking my screeds seriously.

Richardson and his wife are about to become parents.

The excellent and (imho) highly underrated “Asia’s Security Perils” has migrated to a new url as “Maritime Asia.”  Please update your links accordingly. 

The Korea Times is never wrong, you know.  Nor did I know that Jodi  added an “e” to her name, or that GI Korea had mustered out, which didn’t seem to be the case a few weeks ago, when we’d last  exchanged e-mails.  Nit.  Pick.  (I  did  like  being called indispensable, I do post a lot of think tank stuff, and it’s  always nice to know someone is reading.) h/t: The Big Hominid

As you’ve seen recently, I’m still getting cozy over here at OFK 2.0, with many adjustments to the template, etc.  Since the last template didn’t get the best reviews, I’m almost afraid to ask for your comments on this one … but I must, because the site is for you. The one technical problem I can’t solve how to put up headline and blogs feeds, beginning with my friends at DPRK Studies.  I tried installing codes from feedroll into this...