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Here’s a variation on that “they all look alike” phenomenon that seems to afflict the vision of many who look towards the inscrutable East: Linkology – How the Most-Linked-To Blogs Relate. In connection with a “Blog Establishment” cover feature piece, New York Magazine has assembled a list of the 50 most linked-to blogs and mapped [...]

Came across A Fish In Japan the other night and proceeded to spend time I simply don’t have reading the entire damn thing from start to finish. Can’t say that’s ever happened before, really. And for the last few days, at various spontaneous moments, I have found myself thinking about it, it’s writer, her story. [...]

From Tuesday’s Yomiuri Shinbun IT section comes an article about a project that seems to have so far escaped the radar of non-Japanese web watchers (at least in so far as a Google search turns up): LifeSlice.net LifeSlice, which proudly proclaims itself as “first true blog” and features a great logo fashioned out of the [...]

I’ve often lamented about my sidebar of Japan-based blogs being so English-language centric, and expat heavy. Needless to say there are a lot of bloggers in Japan who are writing in Japanese, and I haven’t really found a way to incorporate them into the list, not the least because my limited Japanese would never allow [...]

I forgot my phone at home when going to work yesterday afternoon. In over a year of cellphone ownership, this was the first time I’ve done that. And you know what, as much as I hate to admit it, I felt terribly naked. That phone has become, aside from a tool with which I can [...]

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