To better focus efforts on creating a better search engine I am suspending this blog.
(ok, I know that sounds counterintuitive, but let me explain)
I need to focus resources and time where they will produce the best results.
Writing two blogs (this one and DailyJ) is too much.
So future Nipponster messages will be posted on DailyJ instead.
Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be moving this blog from Blogger to Wordpress.
Since launching DailyJ as a wordpress blog back in September 2007 I have fallen head over heels in love with wordpress. (A special thanks goes to Jamaipanese for suggesting it over blogger)
And although I have a deep love for [...]
March 20, 2008 – 11:43 am
This blog post, written well over 6 months ago, resonates with me today even more than it did then. With the launch of DailyJ and the re-launch of Japanopedia I spread myself rather thin and neglected Nipponster. At the time of this post part of me felt like throwing in the towel and today too [...]
January 3, 2008 – 8:44 pm
Sorry for the silence.Life is busy. Hopefully some changes we are making will free up our time from tedious things.
Our goal with this blog is to post more often and publish shorter “bite-sized” posts that let you know what we are doing each day.
That’s the goal. We will see how that holds up…
December 14, 2007 – 10:46 pm
I just did some major tweaking of the search settings for Nipponster. Hopefully this will make searches more accurate and remove some of the junk results that sometimes pop-up.
Nipponster is supposed to filter results so that only Japan-related results come through. I know that this is going to require constant tweaking, especially since we want [...]
December 14, 2007 – 10:16 pm
There is so much to do and so little time!
I have a lot of little edits to make here and there on Nipponster.
I’m going to talk about them because I think mistakes should be celebrated! None of us are perfect.
I made some edits to the layout of the search engine results pages (SERPs) and [...]
December 13, 2007 – 10:00 pm
yikes! It’s been awhile since we last posted to the official blog.
Keitaro and James have been really busy with their full time jobs, although James has been helping me with a new Japan-related project that hopefully we will launch sometime soon.
I have been busy with work and Daily J. The latter has been going really [...]
September 7, 2007 – 11:58 am
Now that I’ve had some shut-eye…Daily J is up, up, and away! (Did I already say that. Well, I’m excited, ok?!)To start things off we are chatting with Adam Douglass of Slash And Burn.
Yesterday I was supposed to have an interview with Arudou Debito, writer, anti-discrimination advocate, and editor of Debito.org.
I was super excited about [...]
September 7, 2007 – 9:53 am
YES!!!!!!
After weeks of planning, tech work, and conversations with bloggers…Daily J has been launched successfully! I am so relieved *falls out on the floor and sleeps*
~Tori
September 5, 2007 – 2:31 am
Uh oh.
Just two days from Launch and we are debating whether or not to change blog platforms.
*nervous*
I don’t want to push back the launch!
In other news:Someone asked “Will DailyJ be replacing this blog?”
The answer to that is no.
This blog will continue to report on any happenings with Nipponster.And we think DailyJ will actually help with [...]
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