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Poynter Online, the website for the 25-plus year old Poynter Institute and home to a wealth of articles and analysis of media and journalism, has taken notice of the fast-growing blogging trend among both expatriates and Japanese alike here in Japan. The notice was in the form of a post made to E-Media Tidbits, Poynter’s [...]

I don’t really like to single out particular blogs from the Japan-based blogroll to the right (I don’t feel it’s important to establish which ones I enjoy, and which ones I, well, enjoy less), but among my recent finds, I wanted to make special mention of (and offer encouragement to) Meladramas. Its author, Pamela MacCarthy, [...]

It’s been over a month since I did this: more blogs from Japan: Based on a True Story The Dynamic Duo the good maus Joe VS Japan kyle@japan Marc’s Japan Adventure Meladramas Misc. Ramblings by Eric Muninn Order of Randomness Ore no Buloggu Saki-otakism.inc V-2 Organisation While I’m at it, there’s an article on Japan [...]

This is what the “Other (Personal) Views from Japan” list of links looked like back in late August/early September of last year. For a comparison, let me direct your attention to the same section as it exists now, over there in the right margin (scroll up if need be). I wanted to do a side-by-side [...]

Adam Greenfield asked that question with some well-considered (and written) thoughts the other day about moblogging, inspired by meeting moblogger Mie Kennedy at the Tokyo Blogger’s party last week. Somehow Adam manages to be both euphoric and sobering in the same article: Right now, Mie, alongside a few vanguard others like her, is tasting the [...]

The last in the Yomiuri Shinbun‘s recent series of articles on blogging appeared in yesterday’s evening edition. (The first two articles are here and here.) The above-pictured headline reads in Japanese Sankagata media no toujou, and translates roughly into “A new kind of interactive media has appeared.” The article looks at “personal journalism” via blogging [...]