Interview with Digital World Tokyo

On October 15, 2007 in Interviews

I put the cart before the horse. So far I’ve given you snippets of our interview with Digital World Tokyo. But I forgot the most important part: what makes DWT great.


Daily J: Who would love Digital World Tokyo and why?

Mark: People who hate the inane comments infantile readers leave on most tech sites and who don’t mind that we don’t cover everything — we’re not Reuters.

Daily J: How can readers best benefit from DWT?

Mark: Well, there are a few Japanese tech sites out there that are better known, but none produced by proper journalists with the old-school ethos of reporting the news accurately and fairly. That and it can be fun to read on the odd occasion!

Daily J: Where did you get the idea for the DWT logo? It’s so cute!

Mark: That was done by Jon Siegel, a supremely talented illustrator based in Tokyo. Check out the cool variation he did on our affiliate dating site:
http://weheart.digitalworldtokyo.com I feel lucky to have worked with both him and developer MJ from Souzouzone.

Daily J: What is DWT’s mission?

Mark: Right now, it’s just about me enjoying it without any commercial pressure to do X number of posts a day. It’s a useful tool for driving traffic to the store, which helps pay for some pretty costly hosting and development costs.

I think it is always a good thing when bloggers can just enjoy blogging, without constraints. Happy bloggers write fun blogs, right?

So be sure to check out Mark’s super happy fun blog :). And then join us again tomorrow to as we continue our chat with Digital World Tokyo.

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