If you've happened by Lost Laowai recently, you'll have noticed that the site was down. The reason should be pretty apparent why -- she's been redesigned!
For months I've been trying to find the time to sit down and give the site a bit of development love, and for months I failed to do so. The challenge was that I did not just want to slap together a cosmetic change, but rather I wanted to really look at what Lost…
Ryan / August 11, 2011 / Like to write? Got something to say about being a foreigner in China? Why not contribute your thoughts and opinions to the Lost Laowai Blog?
We’re looking to stir some fresh expat pee into the writer pool here. If you’ve got a unique voice, a solid ability to write, and — most importantly — something to say, we’d love to feature your contributions here. Whether you're dredging out an existence as an ESL teacher, t…
There's a blogging meme circling called "My 7 Links". The premise, conceived by TripBase, is simple: get nominated, select seven links from your archives that fit into the group writing project's seven categories, and then nominate up to five others.
I was nominated by Charlie at Chengdu Living, and am happy to oblige. I think most bloggers would agree that we tend to post it and forget it, and it's nice to have t…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Lost Laowai.
To see how this very cool image was made, you need to check out the following video from our friends at NeochaEDGE:
ABSOLUT Vodka recently teamed up with NeochaEDGE and EDGE Creative Collective (ECC) street artists Hurricane and Tin.g to paint up the town (Shanghai, that is) with the brand’s new limited-edition “GLIMMER” bottle. We turned the GLIMMER …
Back in 2008 I added a new feature to Lost Laowai called the "China Blog Network", with the simple premise of creating a Webring for China blogs.
Membership consistently grew over the next year and a half, but the script that was handling the CBN was beginning to buckle under the pressure. Wanting a more stable environment, as well as a more expansive and expandable set of features, I began work in my free time on…
Lost Laowai's sister site, the Hao Hao Report, hit a rather remarkable (to me at least) milestone today -- 10,000 submitted articles. For a site that depends entirely on member-submitted content, I find that fan-frigin-tastic.
It truly would not have been possible without the amazing dedication of its motley membership, and so before I go into the rest of the post, let me use this small soapbox opportunity to firs…
For what feels like forever, I've been tinkering away at a new feature here at Lost Laowai, and I finally feel its at a stage where I can announce it. It's called "Laowai Answers" and it operates pretty much on the same principle as any of the many of other "Q&A" sites out there -- most notably Yahoo Answers and Answers.com -- except Laowai Answers is completely China-focused.
The concept is simple -- have a quest…
This post represents a bit of a milestone here at Lost Laowai, as it is (if the title didn't give it away) our 500th one.
The first post on Lost Laowai was back in September 2006, and we've averaged about 2 posts a week in the 3.5 years since.
Going off visitation alone, the most popular post in that time (and we take little pride in this) was "Zhang Ziyi nude on a beach" (due, in no small part to the fact that…
Hey all, pardon the mess. Am in the process of getting Lost Laowai 3.0 up and running, and am bound to be breaking stuff repeatedly while I do so. Apologies ahead of time if you come to the site and get a dastardly PHP function error, or 404 not found notice.
A lot of things are still askew at the moment, but largely the new design is here. Please bear with me as I finish tweaking some of the smaller points, and t…
Happy New Year from everyone here at Lost Laowai. Another year over and a new one just begun. Here's to hoping that 2010 reverses what has been a terrible year for Internet openness in China.
My New Year's Resolution is to spend eight minutes each day sending positive mental messages to the switch flickers in Beijing in hopes that they will grant validity to what Zhou Xisheng, Deputy Chief and Director-General…
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