How about replace b and g with 6 and 9 from the word ‘blog’.

6lo9 !

That’s right. June 9th is a 6lo9 day. I hope it would be the official blog day in a near future but well who knows. Anyhow, why would you have 6lo9 day? Well, there are certain posts or links I find from search engine that contains broken images, broken links or hasn’t updated for 6+ months. Or when I read my own old posts, I say to myself, “what the heck did i write. It doesn’t make any sense! Did I write this? Maybe I can say it this way, or that way. Ah, this would be better” and etc. I realized, over the course of the time, my opinions have changed or view has been changed and I feel like I need to change or correct some of the phrase in my old postings. Isn’t that true? Well at least some of my friends feel that way. So I decided to set a day which I can just change anything I want on my old postings and the readers will just excuse me, you know, for the sake of the better web, quality web, better content, better blogsphere. That’s how all started.

I’ve thought of certain things bloggers can do on this day. It’s just a suggestion, not a mendatory.

• Correct or change any information or opinion
• Revive the images or multimedia that are broken on your posts
• Maybe reply comments you haven’t for a while
• Clean up all your spam comments!!! Fresh blog, fresh start!!!
• Open your Feed Reader and read all your 999,999 feeds that you haven’t for months
• Update your blog design
• Excuse massive number of feeds being updated on that day.

I’m pretty sure bloggers can do a lot more than this but you know it’s a start, just do whatever would make your blog much better, much cleaner and friendlier for the visitors and for yourselves.

So if you are interested in participating, just post about it so that other bloggers would know.

June 9th is a 6LO9 day~

CEO of BlogCocktail gave out the stat of major Korean meta blog sites. Sadly the number of registered blogs are farely small and a bit surprising. I mean he did not count big major blog providing services(or portals) such as Yahoo Korea, Naver, Empas for they run their own meta page and does not share with outsiders, but still the number is not as many as we expected. Compare this, the estimated number of registered users in Cyworld is a lot more than 15 million and about 7 million visits everyday.

Allblog
Total Feed: 10542
Total Articles: 858,020 (May 15th of 2006 7:11 AM)
Total Tag: 50,900
Total Tagged Articles: 159,413

Blogkorea
Total feed: 6317
Total Articles: 477,938 (May 15th of 2006 7:11 AM)

BlogPlus
Total feed: 658
Total Articles: 9963
Total Tag: 3023 (May 15th of 2006 7:11 AM)

MediaMob
Total Feed: 810
Total Articles: 66,260 (May 15th of 2006 7:11 AM)

ColCol Meta
Total Feed: 40
Total Articles: 1,233

Hanul asks,
“After two years(since Allblog started), is the blogsphere a main stream yet? Or is it still a mania group?”

Well, time will tell…

Kee Chang Kim, a professor in Korea University has appealed to the Korean government about their websites not accessible by non-IE browsers such as Opera, Firefox. Quickly, hundreds have signed up for the movement and the number is keep on growing. expecting four digit anytime soon.

The ‘beauty’ of these proceedings is that we do not have to deal with high-powered lawyers hired by MS. Since we approach this matter as a Constitutional law issue between citizens and the government, MS has no
standing. Nor is our lawsuit an antitrust complaint against MS. We are merely arguing that the Minister in charge of Information Technology and Telecommunications is neglecting his duty under the
relevant statutory and treaty provisions. If MS should attempt to join in as an ‘interested party’, that in itself will go to show that they have in fact been the only one who has so far benefited from ‘MS optimized’ government policies.

We believe that our efforts will not be in vain. We also believe that our approach can be used in many other countries. We believe that the internet should be for everyone, not just for paying clients of MS.

It’s a very good news for the future Korean web environment and I’m fully supporting it. If you want any part of this movement, read more details and participate please.

Well, it’s not a brand new news for Koreans to hear about Cyworld making users mad, but I’m sure some non-Koreans have interest on this matter since English version of Cyworld is about to open anytime soon. Apprently, mini hompy(popup personal website in Cyworld) has background music function which require Active X installation and this installation is becoming one of the hottest issue. (i know you can’t read but look at the number of trackbacks and comments)

miaan who found this ‘problem’ suggests that the Cyworld installs 8 files into a user’s computer and uses his/her computer as a small sharing server. More insterestingly, it installs files in ’system32′ folder which cannot be deleted in a same maner as deleting Active X installed files. Some say it’s a spyware or bot but by definition it is not and miaan has a firm stand on that matter.

It’s a small resource the music player is eating up but the problem miaan is suggesting is that Cyworld has not made it clear enough in the ‘user agreement’ to the users when they install the player. Users are questioning if this is a violation of privacy or even some kind of piracy. I’m pretty confident that Cyworld will somehow get away with this problem but I’m now wondering if this kind of problem occurs when Cyworld U.S. version opens, what kind of actions American users can take and if this kind of matter is worthy of any kind of law suit. Please leave a comment if anybody know about anything. I just hope that U.S. version wouldn’t include this kind of controversal functions. I wish them the best…

A popular Web2.0 blogger in Korea Seokchan aka Channy has opened his english blog named, KoreaCrunch.com You bet I’ll subscribe it and read every posts. Even though I’m the one who’s saying ‘welcome’, I bet he’s more popular haha. Well, welcome anyways

“Finally”. It would be the right word to describe the coming of Malgun Gothic font in upcoming windows, Vista. If you would have known how hard it was to make fonts look good in Korean websites, you would totally agree with me. Microsoft has provided just four default fonts in Korean Windows OS and none has been changed for such a long time. Korean web designers have been replacing fonts with images most of the time and because of that, even emails are sent with images containing anti-aliased texts. And maybe that is somewhat the reason why so many flash based websites are abused in Korea. Luckily, Koreans have such a great high speed internet overall to cover those huge image downloading.

With that much of frustration, when the news broke out about the vector based new font Malgun Gothic, it quickly became the hottest news among bloggers and designers. It is so popular, some are already putting CSS code, font-family:”Malgun Gothic”; into their blogs. I applied it to my Korean blog and it seems pretty great.

This news has been great to Japan and China, too. They also got their own vector based fonts included in Vista and it seems like they are crazy about it. I mean why not? Isn’t the font one of the most important features in Web2.0 design? In order to have the total seperation between documentation and presentation, font is essential. For that reason, I SHOUT OUT LOUD, “Finally!”

It’s very good to hear they finally realize what is the right way and submit to it. Korean Government has decided to support web standards. Some would say ‘duh~’ but yes they did at least from now on.

According to the report, the Korean Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA) has issued new guidelines stating that government websites should support Internet Explorer 5.0, Netscape 7.0, Firefox 1.0 and Safari 1.0 on Windows, Mac and Linux. The guidelines also say that pages should be coded in HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, CSS2 and ECMAScript (the standardised version of JavaScript). Accessibility standards are also specified.

When government takes an action, a lot of agencies will turn around and say,
‘Hey, they are putting tons of money to support web standard. How about we learn those and we take the projects?’

We’ll see how this would go through because such an instant change would bring some troubles of transition at times which already is happeninig.

Ah yes, finally, with some adjustment after opening it for testing purpose, i officially welcome everyone who visits with this new home design. It has been developed under web standard with XHTML 1.1 and css2. And to be honest, i’m in love with wordpress. Amazing tool.

This is somewhat could be a regular designed website for some people but i do believe it is attractive enough not to just close ‘tab’ after a glance. If you know what i mean. ^^

Please enjoy and i’ll see you time to time through blogs. You can find me at technorati and some korean blogging communities. Yes of course, take my feed address and you can get me anywhere in the world where internet works.

This site will be refreshed with 95% more white space ^^
This is some exciting stuff. Let’s do it!

update: 90% done

Things are starting to wrapping up.
As for now it’s just opened for everyone.
Of course, it’s not done yet.

The most popular blogging tool in Korea called Tatter Tools is about to release its 1.0 version. It’s a very sweet blogging tool it has easy to use, friendly clean interface and it is translated to several other languages such as chinese. With a tremendous popular support, tatter tools has grown fast and smooth.

This 1.0 version is promised to have UTF-8 support and XHTML 1.0 standard based. It seems it will have official translated versions in Chinese, Japanese and English in full support.

Its release was dated back in June but had been cancelled due to some technical problems and also the scheduling problems of its developer.

Everyone is getting pretty excited around the blogging community how much impact Tatter would make with its new features and new webstandard support.

I like their ambitious slogan “Bring the world together, Tatter Tools”