Killing Our Blogroll ≠ Our Own Death, Which Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

In just the last week, I have received around ten emails and a comment or two on the blog bemoaning the death of our China Law Blog. The below are two of the favorable ones:

I have heard about the end of China Law Blog. But I am not alone in saying that this was one of the premier blogs on China for many years. I am sorry to hear of its passing. Have you thought about taking some of the pertinent issues and repackaging them into a book? Or has that been done to death? In your case, you would have a lot of material that might work in a book format.

It has been a great pleasure to follow your China law blog. I understand that all good things have to come to an end but I will miss it. I read your blog every chance I got and I want to thank you for all that you did.

This one is far less favorable, and I think I know from whence it comes:

Your shutting down your stupid blog so close to your tenth year just confirms what so many of us knew all along. You are a fraud and nobody has read your blog for many years. We are laughing at you now, you f—-king loser.

But guess what. We have no plans to end our blogging.

A few weeks ago, I wrote of how we would be pulling the switch on our blogroll (our list of the recommended blogs) and then about a week ago we did. But pulling the plug on our own plug? No way, no how. And why should we? Our readership remains as high ever (probably higher) and our social media engagement with our readers (via Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn) has really just begun. But I think those posts caused the rumors to spread. They are just so false.

So to those who worry about our shutting down, worry not. And to those (one person actually) who thought you were dancing on our grave, you were not. So there.

We fully expect to be here for another ten years, like us or not.

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