[pgwk] I like the Chadao blog a lot. Interestingly, it includes a
detailed travelogue from our inestimable RFTD colleague, Lew Perin,
plus the text of a speech by my somewhat less estimable self that I
gave last month to the biennial Liyang Tea Exposition on China's Great
Teas; A View from the US.

[corax] peter, you are too modest. i happen to know that many people
read the text of your speech with interest and enjoyment. thanks for
that contribution.

[pgwk] I would love to see a list of blogs we can all enjoy and
benefit from. Yours is so elegantly designed and so attractive to
browse. I truly and honestly feel privilidged that you published my
speech on it -- and that it looks so much better than my Word version.

[corax] i'm just delighted that you are pleased with it. as jeeves
said to bertie wooster [or was it bunter to lord peter wimsey?], 'we
endeavour to give satisfaction, sir.'

[pgwk] I offer to assemble a list of Great Blogs and newsletters for
our group. What do you all read and love? Cha Dao is very, very high
on my own list. This may sound like a putdown but I hope I find a
dozen that are better only because that will mean that I have even
more great, great stuff to enjoy.

[corax] not to worry. i take that in just the spirit it was offered.
and i agree with you entirely: i would love to see the bar raised ever
higher on internet publishing.

as for a list of other blogs, you might find a start for this at CHA
DAO itself. if you go to the blog site --
http://chadao.blogspot.com/ -- and look down the right-hand side of
the page, you will see, in descending order, [1] a list of our
contributors, [2] a list of 'Some Links Useful for the Study of
Chinese Language, History, and Culture,' and [3] a list of
specifically tea-related links. the latter are mostly in blog format;
notable exceptions [in alphabetical order] include lew perin's
BABELCARP, which everyone knows is sine qua non for the study of china
teas; mike petro's PU-ERH.NET, which has become so famous that it is
now getting listed even in *print-format* bibliographies; and, of
course, RFDT itself. but do browse the others: like their authors,
each one has something helpful to offer. some attain to real elegance.



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