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Post #2 of “The Japan-related Web” guest-blogging-series on Rising Sun of Nihon

On January 07, 2008 in #The Japan-related Web Debate, Announcements, Community building, DailyJ Mission, Future of the J-web

Here is a snippet from the next post in the guest blogging series. We will be chatting about this all month long and want to hear your opinions, so be sure to visit RisingSunOfNihon and join in the discussion!

The purpose of this series is to inspire everyone (from reader to webmaster) to greater collaboration, communication and mutual encouragement.

But, I am not foolish enough to think that I have all the answers.

In this series the real inspiration is you…

Click here to read the full post (all posts are under 200 words, just the right size!)

Join the fun

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Post #1 of “The Japan-related Web” guest blogging series on Rising Sun of Nihon

On January 06, 2008 in #The Japan-related Web Debate, Community building, DailyJ Mission, Future of the J-web

And so it begins…

As I mentioned earlier, Bill from Rising Sun Of Nihon has invited me to use his blog as a platform where we can all come together and discuss the Japan-related web! This will be a month long guest blog series.

I am going to be putting snippets of the posts here but most of the action will be over on Rising Sun Of Nihon. Be sure to”weigh in” on the topics by commenting and sharing your ideas.

Here is a snippet from my introduction:

I started building websites related to Japan while studying at Sophia University in Tokyo. I started because I was a bit overwhelmed (like many are) by the difficulties of trying to live/succeed as a foreigner in Japan and I wanted to make things a little easier for others…

I believe that communication and collaboration between webmasters (and between webmasters and their readers) is the key to better Japan-related content on the web.

So, I am very grateful and excited that Bill has given me the chance to guest blog here on RisingSunOfNihon and chat with all of you!

You can read the full at RisingSun.

Be sure to introduce yourself as well in the comment section! This is your discussion.

 

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Japan-bloggers United Mailing List?

On January 01, 2008 in Community building, Future of the J-web, On the J-web, Suggestions Please

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Ken YN over at WhatJapanThinks has been holding a little Japan Blog of the Year Contest and he brought up some really interesting ideas in the comments section of the post.

Ken YN: I’m not very good at this community thing, but I feel that there should be some sort of J-bloggers United mailing list/SNS where we can get to know everyone a bit better, but without getting too incestuous; the blogging about blogging world is really bad for that!I see Japan Probe has a new AdRoll icon; the Japan BlogAds doesn’t sell anything as a unit; could “we” work out a deal with Piqniq, TokyoApartments, etc so they could advertise direct rather than through the AdSense, TLA middlemen? I don’t, but someone like Robert at jp.blognation may have answers.

Having a Japan-bloggers United emailing list or a J-blogger social networking site (SNS) sounds like a great idea to me. What do you guys think? How should we do it?

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When Japan-bloggers put their minds together beautiful things happen - follow up to our interview with JapanBlogList

On December 21, 2007 in Announcements, Blog Improvements, Community building, DailyJ Mission, Future of the J-web, On the J-web

Three heads are better than one.

Chris had a brilliant idea, Shane expanded on it (see below), the JapanBlogList fit the bill perfectly and now…. the ball is rolling to create a “blog search tool” that will let you search all of the Japan-related blogs online!

Nipponster and DailyJ are giving full support to the JapanBlogList project and partnering up with them to create this new search tool.

So from now on you will see an extra tab at the top of DailyJ for the JapanBlogList. And soon (once we do the tech work) our blog search widget will be on their JapanBlogList page so that users can search through all of the blogs on the list.

None of this would have happened without the great feedback from DailyJ readers like Chris and Shane so a BIG thanks to both of you!

Shane S Said, As far as the blogroll goes I think that this is a great idea - why don’t you create a page behind home and about titled Japan blogs and start the list with those that are regular contributors to Daily J and those that you have interviewed. You could then take suggestions or add based on the comments that you got on your previous top Japan Blogs…you could have two columns - one for blogs and one for resources sites like japan-guide.com etc…. (link to original comment)

Have a great day

DailyJ

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Great ideas from Daily J readers

On December 13, 2007 in Community building, Future of the J-web, JapanBlogMatsuri, Suggestions Please

Daily J readers are some smart cookies!

(Makes you wonder why they are reading this blog )
Here are some of their great comments and suggestions:

#1 (link to original comment) Chris from Waikiki2Yanai:

There is a “japan blogroll” thing I was on before but it was littered with old abandoned blogs.

A newer version of that which ranked on post freq or something like that would be maybe good? There is a extreme lack of cohesion obviously, since I have to hunt for others in Japan.

A hi Quality icon based link would blend better than text links.

Thats what I want. Can you get on that and have it ready by tomorrow?

Great!!

While I don’t know about having it by tomorrow (and I would already be late anyway), I definitely would like to make something like this! What do you think guys? Can we build it?! I say, “Let the brainstorming begin!”

#2 (link to the comment) Shane from Atypicallife

Rather than just do interviews why not due features on Japan. You could do informative pieces on arts&crafts, tech stuff, etc with a Japanese twist. You could use guest bloggers for these posts or challenge everyone to do a piece on a subject and highlight the good ones in a post here….I would be happy to consider co-ordinating this if you want to contact me.

Yes and yes. This is a great idea and is similar to the old Japan Blog Matsuri. I bet RockinInHakata would be interested too.

#3 (link to the comment) Harvey from JapanNewbie

I want to see an organized Japan Blogger get together! In Kansai.

You can have one in Tokyo too if you like, but all the cool people are in Kansai.

How about it Osaka bloggers?

These are just a few of the great ideas readers have had. Hopefully I will get the chance to post some more of them soon. And I always appreciate them so keep them coming.

Let’s make the J-web a brilliant place by helping one another!

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Connections - How some of our past interviewees are alike and why it matters

On November 14, 2007 in DailyJ Mission, Future of the J-web, On the J-web, Suggestions Please

Hello friend.

A few days ago I declared that I will be going for depth in the relationships between Daily J and interviewee blogs. I also wondered out loud about how Japan bloggers can become more of a community.

So the question is:

What do you think about that? What do you think are some ways that we can form a tighter community (for the benefit of people interested in Japan)?

I don’t have the answers.

But I do have some ideas about how Daily J might contribute to this community building. Maybe Daily J can be a catalyst.

In chemistry a catalyst is an outside substance that speeds up a chemical reaction. By calling Daily J a catalyst I mean that Daily J can help Japan-related websites learn more about other Japan-related websites and form bonds with them.

Looking back over the interviews we have had so far I see lots of similarities, little connections between the interviewed bloggers. To me these seem like great opportunities for these bloggers to collaborate.

Here are a few of those connections:

JapanNewbie <—> Slash and Burn

Both are into Japanese film and mention it as a good way to learn Japanese.

Waikiki2Yanai <—>RisingSunofNihon<— >KeepingPaceInJapan

Great information and experiences related to teaching English in Japan

JapanNewbie <—> Watashi To Tokyo <—>Jamaipanese

Fun posts on Japanese culture and subculture

JapanNewbie <—> Rocking in Hakata

Some great posts translating things (songs, ads, etc.) into Japanese

These are just a few of the connections I came up with in a hurry today. I plan to post more tomorrow. See you then

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The Next J-Net

On September 30, 2007 in Announcements, Future of the J-web, Suggestions Please

If there are any Business 2.0 fans out there this title should ring a bell. Their “The Next Net25″ is basically a top 25 list.

We want to copy that idea with a new application that let’s users submit j-sites that they like and then all of the users can vote on which ones are their favourites!

What do you think?

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