blogging - A much needed upgrade

Got yesterday together with Isaac Mao, so we could exchange some ideas on a practical level again. He advised me to get an upgrade for this weblog and even promised to mobilize some help. Seems like a good idea, but still having a busy agenda with many other things too. With my new project 'Connecting China' slowly taking off, it would be worthwhile to pay some attention to the looks and the usability of this weblog too.
The number of Chinese webloggers is steadily going up, now about 470,000, according to Isaac's estimation. Both little and much. Compared to the US, China might have now the largest number of webloggers in the world. But as a percentage of the population it is still too small to create a buzz. Still a million or so to get.
We also discussed BloggerCon III that will take place at Stanford University on 6 November, two days after the presidential elections in the US. In April we organized together with Living in China a get together for bloggers in Shanghai. It was meant to watch and discuss the BloggerCon II, but since the technology failed, we ended up talking to each other. And that was in the end much better.
No clue whether we should repeat it in November again: the Americans seem to focus very much on the presidential elections, and that is a bit less our piece of cake.