Chit-chat, Japan-related projects, and begging for feedback

On March 05, 2008 in Blog Improvements, Community building, Suggestions Please

Reminder: If you missed it I’ve been asking everyone for feedback about an upcoming discussion I hope to have here on DailyJ (and possibly elsewhere as well).

Chit Chat 

Okay. Now that the reminder is out of the way, I just want to update you guys about some of the things I’ve been doing on the Japanopedia wiki.

But before that, Let me say to any newbie people that are reading: I’ll be mentioning names of people that you might not know (here on DailyJ we are kind of close knit)  but you can always jump in and join the conversation and we’ll welcome you to the group.

There have been some good comments lately from some new people like Neil and Mike so it’s good to have them drop by and leave their 2 yen and hopefully they’ll stick around as readers.

Also, I just want to say sorry to a couple of people for slow replies. I’ve been talking to a lot of different people by email. I have some interviews that are really backed up, especially one great interview with certain podcasters. I interviewed them a while back and they got all the answers to me really quickly  and I’ve been so slow. But I’m getting to it,  and I am working on better organisation. 

Japan-related Projects 

The main thing that I want to do in this post is just talk about some of the upcoming projects on Japanopedia.

I am making a new project page for JapanSoc. It’s a page that lists video tutorials made so far for the project. There are 2 video tutorials currently: One that I’ve made which isn’t very good quality, the sound didn’t work. And another one that Nick made which is quite good.

Hopefully, with this page, somebody else might join in and make a tutorial too, to help out the project. The next project after the JapanSoc is NihonHacks. I have been talking to Thomas about a project to help brainstorm new NihonHacks and problems we want NihonHacks for.

So I’m putting both of these projects on the wiki. They are not done yet but hopefully they will be good once they are upI will let you all know when these pages are ready. 

Begging for feedback

* Changing the name of the Japanopeda. Shall we change it to “Japan Labs?”

* Many emails between bloggers. Would some of this dailog be better in the open. This is the old mailing list idea.

 Just some ideas I had.

Have a great day!

DailyJ

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