The Taiwan Blog Feed Lives!
March 26th, 2008 by MarkHackers may have taken it down for a while, but the Taiwan Blog Feed is redesigned and up again!
I have no idea why it was under such a brutal attack. I added any sites which met the criteria of being about Taiwan, teaching English or learning Chinese, and promptly removed anyone who asked to be. On top of that the site was entirely non-commercial, with no self-serving purpose what-so-ever. Nonetheless, it was under constant bombardment; perhaps some Chinese activist was upset at all the political blogs being aggregated, but it seems unlikely. In any case, it was pretty clear that the attacker had a Drupal kit. I upgraded the site to the newest version of Drupal in order to close some of its security holes, but that broke half the add-ons I had used to make the site.
So, I’ve moved the Taiwan Blog Feed to wordpress, which I’m much more familiar with. It should be easier for me to keep on top of maintaining the site now, too. People can’t add their sites anymore. Just leave me a comment if you want a particular site added (or if you’re the author and you want it removed).
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March 26th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Nice to see it’s back! I use a feed reader now so I don’t use the Taiwan Feed as much as I used to, but I usually check in once in awhile to see if there are any feeds I missed. Great work Mark!
March 26th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hmm… maybe I should add a display of all the blogs included.
BTW, do you mind sharing your list of Taiwan blogs on your feed? I don’t read blogs that often anymore myself and I’m sure I’ve missed most of them.
March 30th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Do we have to re-add our blogs?
March 31st, 2008 at 6:20 am
Nope. Only I add them now. Yours is there.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
I noticed you had changed things around a few weeks ago when I found out my own site had been copied by some noob. You’re the third person I know who’s been hacked over the past few months. I’m getting a bit worried. Are people targeting Taiwan bloggers now?
By the way, I like what you’ve done with the new feed. It looks great.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Thanks, Carrie!
I think adsense and all the SEO wunderkids are to blame for the proliferation of site copiers like the “noob” you refer to.
As for the old taiwanfeed.com site, it was probably attacked because it was Drupal. Drupal has become the script kiddies’ favorite CMS to mess with. That, along with convenience is why I switched it to Wordpress.