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• 07.30.08
  iSummit 2008: Day 1   Events (0)

  It’s been a long day and I’m exceptionally bad at liveblogging, so I won’t even attempt to cover all the talks and sessions that happened today at iSummit 2008, instead I’ll just give a few thoughts and impressions.
  

• 07.27.08
  Article on Translation and Open Content   Events, Translation (0)

  I finally got around to posting an article at iCommons.org that I had meant to publish a long time ago, about an apparent conflict (in my view) between the idea of “open” content (and particularly the “open culture” movement) and the essence of linguistic “difference” which underlies the act of translation. The article is partly […]

• 04.11.08
  Miete kita mirai   Events, Media (0)

  Ten years after the burst of Japan’s economic bubble, with the erosion of a common sense of values that had been shared for many years through an earlier period of strong economic growth, we face an era of confusion in which it is not even clear what we should believe in.
  That’s my rough translation of […]

• 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.
  

• 02.24.08
  Print journalism in Japan: Two seminars   Events, Media (0)

  Two recent seminars on the future of print journalism in Japan to report. One last week held by Japan’s most well-known English newspaper the Japan Times (with the University of Tokyo Inter-faculty Initiative in Information Studies) was publicized as a seminar about the future of English-language journalism in East Asia, but ended up veering pretty […]

• 02.22.08
  Bloggers study group at Pasonatech   Blogging, Events (0)

  Caught a great study group meeting organized by the Agile Media Network last night at the Pasonatech seminar room in Shibuya (here’s the original posting in Japanese). Tokuriki-san, the main person behind the Alpha Blogger Awards, was on the ball as usual moderating the event.
  

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