Blogging to Change Myself & Japan
Finally starting to understand this blogging stuff. Getting addicted? Looking for stuff in Tokyo to blog about. Taking requests. My personal media channel. It's ChrisTV!!
 
I got to attend a seminar yesterday "Service Sector Entrepreneurship in Japan: Successfully Leveraging Overseas Business Practices and 'Outsider' Insight" and met a really interesting person that changed my outlook(again) on Japan. His name Joi Ito. His philosophies and mind are way kewl (checkout his blog).
Joi is Shirley's classmate from ASIJ so I've heard about the guy, but never imagined he would be so intriguing. The thoughts that really hit me was on blogging and how it could impact Japan. Another thing that I realized was how this tool(blogging) is helping me deal with my "culture shock", home sickness, and push myself toward what I really came here to do. (which is?)
Close to the end of the Q&A part of the seminar Joi got into his negative feelings toward Japanese media companies, because of how biased they are due to corporate/political ties. I always thought that most commercial media companies are this way, but never really got into it .. maybe I thought it's just popular public opinion? Joi went on explaining that since his blog site was getting alot of traffic and alot of links to it .. so his PageRank on google is really high, which makes search results rank higher ... and my point. Well, google bought blogger and speculation has it that the reason for the purchase is "in the ability of bloggers to generate very quick reaction to breaking news" and "weblogs are increasingly breaking news stories faster than traditional media". Well, if all this momentum of blogs does actually change the way people write/consume info, then the evil media empires have something to worry about.
I know I'm rambling now cause I don't usually write more than a paragraph at a time. And the coffee is wearing off. I'll come back to write more stuffs.
Mobile Blogging
moblog, moblogging, Mobile Blogging checkout Joi's blog site on mobile blogging.
Wired News "Now Bloggers Can Hit the Road"
Examples:
Joi Ito's Moblog
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