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• 05.13.09
  The new GV Japan Team, Japan Times article   Blogging, Media, Translation (0)

  Wow, been behind in updating this blog, but quite a bit of news to report. The first thing (old news at this point, but important to mention anyway) is that as of April 1st I am no longer co-Japanese language editor at Global Voices. I’ve been replaced in that role by former Tokyo Art Beat [...]

• 11.06.08
  Waiwai from the inside out   Blogging, Media, Translation (1)

  A quick follow-up post to mention that Adam Richards from Mutant Frog Travelogue and I together translated an article posted in August at CNET Japan by Toshinao Sasaki about the now infamous WaiWai scandal.

• 11.06.08
  The day Japan’s netizens turned news on its head   Blogging, Media (2)

  Japan Inc. was nice enough to publish an article of mine about the use of net media in Japan in this month’s issue. The main thing I wrote about in the article was the live streaming of the Akihabara knife massacre on June 8th, a topic I’ve written about before for Global Voices and also [...]

• 09.14.08
  iSummit 2008: Day 2   Blogging, Events, Translation (0)

  This post comes much much too late, so I think rather than attempt to cover what happened on day 2 of the iSummit I’ll just point to a few places that have more details. To find out about our session, I strongly recommend having a look at the article written by (fellow Canadian) Wojciech Gryc [...]

• 06.19.08
  Article in Translation Journal   Blogging, Media, Translation (0)

  An article of mine about translation in Global Voices and Project Lingua, titled “Translation and Participatory Media: Experiences from Global Voices“, has been published online at Translation Journal. In the article I outline how translation and languages fit into the day-to-day operations of Global Voices, and also try to situate the function of translation in [...]

• 03.22.08
  Interviewed by Asahi’s Komimi   Blogging, Interviews, Media (4)

  The Japanese language team at Global Voices (myself and my co-editor) were interviewed by Asahi’s new Komimi online news portal, a new site created to “introduce original articles and conversations from across the country”. Both of us are really happy with the way the article turned out in the end, so to “give a little [...]

• 03.09.08
  WeMedia: Who are “we”?   Blogging, Business, Events, Media (1)

  Here it is a week later, and I can finally sit back for a second and reflect on my first experience attending We Media in Miami. (I’ve also posted a couple live-blogged point form summaries of talks here and here.)

• 02.27.08
  WeMedia: Political World - Hype vs. Reality in Campaign ‘08   Blogging, Events, Media (2)

  Next session is “Political World - Hype vs. Reality in Campaign ‘08″. Just caught the tail end of this one.

• 02.27.08
  WeMedia: Power to Change the World   Blogging, Events, Media (2)

  Here I am liveblogging the first sessions at WeMedia. This will be point-form for now, hope to add more later.

• 02.24.08
  We Media 2008   Blogging, Events, Media (0)

  I’m off today to We Media 2008 in Miami with many other people from Global Voices (some of whom have already been interviewed), will be liveblogging some of the events there, stay tuned over the next few days.

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