What To Read On China: The End Of Our Blogroll

Our blog consultants (a very loosely and ill-defined group of friends who know what’s what on blogging) have been telling us for years that blogrolls are passé. They say that we should delete our blogroll to “catch up with the times.” The thinking is that few people go to blogs any more. Instead, they mostly get their blog content via readers and other sources. And when they do actually go to a blog, they virtually never look at the blogroll.

I have come to believe “they” are right. We used to receive countless emails from readers listing out their favorite blogs and asking us to review their list and consider revising our blogroll accordingly. I loveed those emails because they would enlighten us to really good China blogs of which we previously were not aware. Those emails stopped coming years ago. I now just get a fairly steady stream of emails from blogs wanting us to add them to our blogroll or complaining that they are not on our blogroll. Most of these blogs are either brand new or just not so good.

The above is my way of saying that keeping up our blogroll has become more trouble than it is worth and so we will be slowly shutting it down. But instead of just turning off a switch and immediately sending our blogroll into blog oblivion, we will be shutting the list down three blogs at a time, in alphabetical order. But to give the blogs on our blogroll a fitting send-off, we will write a post on the three blogs being deleted from our roll, each time we do so.

Throughout this “deletion period” we will be gathering up any and all good reads on China, consisting of the following:

1. Good China blogs. This is defined as any blog that is helpful to those doing business in China or just interested in China.

3. Good podcasts related to China.

4. Good websites related to China.

5. Good twitter accounts related to China.

6. Good Facebook pages related to China.

7. Good books related to China.

8. Good Linkedin Groups related to China.

This is going to be a massive and long-term undertaking and it is going need your help. And so towards that end I ask that you send your suggestions and your lists to us at “firm at harrismoure dot com” and that you put “China List” in your email’s subject. We will over the next few months be reviewing what you send us and doing our own research and then eventually be coming out with a bunch of blog posts with the results.

So speak now (actually within the next few months) or forever hold your peace.

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