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Choices, Apologies, and why I look up to J-Donuts
On October 14, 2008 in Announcements
Tomorrow I post the last delayed interview (interview gathered from before I fell off the face of the J-blogosphere for four months, earlier this year).
So here is yet another apology and attempt to make peace with a Japan-blogger whom I have wronged. Sorry J-donuts.
I wish I was better at this whole interview-conducting/blogging thing. That’s one thing I really admire actually about Jdonuts, he makes comment-replying a top priority (and keeps a good posting schedule):
DailyJ: How can readers contribute to Jdonuts?
Leave a comment, I read ALL comments and do my best to reply to as many as possible, currently over 75%.
http://blog.jdonuts.com/2007/08/comment-moderation-policy.htmlI live to read and reply to comments!
What makes your site unique? How can readers get the most from your site?
Well, I’m an individual, just like everyone else!
http://jokes.jdonuts.com/2008/01/individuality.htmlSeriously though, just comment and tell me what you like. I live to please and do my best to post things that people tell me that they like. Did I already say that I live to read and reply to comments?
Over the last couple of days I have been reading through some of Jdonut’s posts and found a few (about blogging in general) that make me take an introspective look at DailyJ.
I’ve felt before that my limited time really hinders DailyJ from being what it could/should be. I love DailyJ and conducting interviews, but I cannot do it at the level I would like to.
I recently sat down and wrote out what I imagine are my options with DailyJ. I was surprised this week to see that Jdonuts had been writing about similar things.
Here are the options I came up with:
- Keep doing things the way I am now until I completely burn out (and then suspend the blog - leave it up but as an archive).
- Give DailyJ to whoever will love it and keep it true.
- Change DailyJ
- Monetise DailyJ - in the hope that it will let me work less elsewhere and more on it.
- Additional editors (perhaps paid or other incentives) to lessen the load.
Out of all of those options, option 2 is the one I like best (probably because it seems the easiest) if I could find someone like that. Jdonuts isn’t betting on it. Reading Jdonuts post I wonder, ”Really, what would happen to my readers if I left my blog?“ I only have 2 readers (Billy and Nick) :-) anyway but still it is a dilemma.
Then there is the buyer. Like Jdonuts, I don’t think blog buying makes much sense(at least not in most cases), so I won’t be selling DailyJ.Â
But what about this idea: I could let someone who loves the blog and its mission come in as the new editor. They could slightly monetise the site with their Adsense, etc. and keep whatever they make. I would contribute as often as I can manage, and with two heads we should be able to keep DailyJ regular. Of course, there may be cons to this too.
I’m all ears for any suggestions about DailyJ. Whatever the case, I plan to keep DailyJ going as long as possible.
So as we continue on this behind the scenes journey through the Japan-related web there will be plenty of interesting people to meet.
And tomorrow we will get to know one of them.
So stay tuned for that.
That’s all for today,
DailyJ
One more break…
On October 09, 2008 in Announcements
urgggg.
I am behind on the upcoming interview post and trying to fight some web “fires” so I am taking a little break. Hopefully I’ll have the interview posted before the weekend.
Hope your day is better 
Short hiatus
On October 04, 2008 in Announcements
I am going on hiatus for a couple of days (until Tuesday).
I need the time for some things I want to bring you readers:
- I’m working on an interview (one that I should have posted long ago)
- Also, I’ve had a number of requests for interviews (and interviews I am initiating) so I need some time to make questions and send them.
- I am writing a post about my interview process, to give you a behind the scenes look at how things work here at DailyJ
See you after the hiatus!
Have a great day
DailyJ
Late night web tinkering…
On October 03, 2008 in Announcements, JapanLabs, Nerd Rant
(nerd post)
I wrote this after staying up way too late (something I very rarely do), so it’s not Shakespeare.
I exported the files from the old Official Nipponster Blog (blogger) to a new wordpress I am working on.
The new wordpress installation is for a new Nipponster Laboratory. This one will give me a place to showcase new experiments and will link to the Nipponster group on JapanLabs.org (more info) to allow users to discuss the experiments.
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Exporting the blog from blogger.com to wordpress was not easy but I managed. But then I noticed that some of the videos and other media didn’t export… 
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The labs site’s theme is very minimalist. That was on purpose. I like simple (like Craigslist). I might customise it a bit later. But I need to create a better logo for Nipponster first.
Supporting JapanSoc
On September 29, 2008 in Announcements, Blog Improvements, Community building, DailyJ Mission, Future of the J-web, Helping Japan Bloggers
Just a quick but important post today.
I (finally) put up a JapanSoc widget on DailyJ to help spread the idea of JapanSoc and a J-blogger community.
on the bottom of it you can click “get widget” and get one for your site. Go for it!
and check out the Jsoc toolbox
Let’s support our community-driven Japan-related news source.
fixing the homepage. working on chat
On September 28, 2008 in Announcements, Blog Improvements
I am 89% sure I fixed the nipponster homepage this time. Thanks Nick for telling me about the problem.
I am also working on an “interview chat” section for DailyJ using prologue theme for wordpress (the theme was another Nick suggestion).
It will be a place to talk about interviews (yay! that explains it). ok, I will explain it better later.
Japanlabs @ JapanLabs.org
On September 27, 2008 in Announcements, JapanLabs
(slow news day . actually I am busy with little projects here and there)
I bought the domain name JapanLabs.org to use for the JapanLabs social network over at ning.com.
Japanlabs.org has been set to redirect there so you can use that. Seems easier than entering japanlabs.ning.com
Nipponster Web Search Widget. and Video Search Widget
On September 26, 2008 in Announcements, On the J-web, fun
For anyone interested, there are some new widgets for you on Nipponster. I removed the logo off of the top of the widget code so that you can label them as you like.
The goal is to give you a widget that gives your readers/users Japan-specific search results. As always I am all ears for you feedback. Let me know what you think!
The old one looked like this (with the Nipponster branding on it):
The new web search widget:
Here’s the code:
And here is the video search widget
Here is the code:
Relationships: the glue of the j-web. And a widget
On September 25, 2008 in Announcements, Blog Improvements, Community building, fun
Some months ago I posted about an RSS feed of posts by past DailyJ interviewees.
And I posted script for widget so that others could put it on their blogs, etc., if they wanted to.
Chris from Waikiki2Yanai mentioned that the widget’s colour didn’t match his site, so I’ve made a new one (finally!) that is clear.
I wanted to make it into a widgetbox widget but widgetbox is not as easy as they claim.
Anyway, here it is:
And here is the code for it:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.google.com/reader/ui/publisher-en.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.google.com/reader/public/javascript/user/01310610213837056251/label/Daily J?n=5&callback=GRC_p(%7Bc%3A%22-%22%2Ct%3A%22%22%2Cs%3A%22true%22%2Cb%3A%22false%22%7D)%3Bnew%20GRC”></script>
Also I added it to the left-hand sidebar.
81 To Dos and Feeling Good
On September 22, 2008 in Announcements
(Just a quick post today as I work on some other upcoming things.)
About two weeks ago I posted about being tired.
I think I had forgotten how much fun DailyJ can be; how much fun it is to talk to others on the Japan-related web and hear about what motivates them.
Looking back over the year cured me of that. Even I cannot believe that DailyJ interviewed 21 sites last year! It was a great experience.
There is much for me to do for DailyJ and Nipponster. I have a long list of to do items (really mini & major projects). Right now I have 81 items on my list! But they are all exiting things. I can’t wait to roll them out!
-DailyJ
p.s. I am getting better at managing things, I take my gmail inbox down to zero every week now (for the last three weeks). See inbox zero
