Opining on the Toru Hashimoto Press Event at the FCCJ [J7’s Tweet of the day]
On talking about currently embattled-by-the-media Osaka mayor and Isshin no Kai party co-chair Toru Hashimoto‘s remarks at today’s press event at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club Japan: @jakeadelstein...
View ArticleTwitter Map of Hate, SNS as a dataset and the Journalistic value of tweets
About a week ago, I was listening to the USA National Public Radio stream over the Internet, where I heard a story about a California university study that involved correlating hate speech to the GPS...
View ArticleTropical Storm Man-Yi (台風１８号) visits us in Yokohama [VIDEO]
Our first powerful typhoon of the year, Man-Yi, came knocking during our 3 day weekend here… While she made landfall in central Japan near Shizuoka and pounded western Japan with rain and floods,...
View ArticleSuper “Cheese-day” and “Fry-day”
Here we go again y’all — yet another mega food campaign from the fast food folks here in Japan. This time we have Lotteria deciding the names Tuesday and Friday aren’t good enough names for the those...
View ArticleBrush up on your skills at our Tokyo Weekend journalism mini-conference!
Reblogged from AAJA-Asia: Mark your calendars for the “AAJA-Asia Tokyo Weekend” mini-conference at Dow Jones Japan. The event, Oct. 18-19, will combine journalism workshops, a panel discussion,...
View ArticleT-Mobile wins the Mobile Carrier Wars (for now)
The gauntlet has been thrown down in the ongoing price wars for cell phone service back in my home country, the USA. T-Mobile has literally been changing the way the industry does business over there,...
View ArticleNPR visits my job at NMA
NPR sent a crew over to Taiwan and stopped by our studio at Next Media Animation to talk to us and ask why and how we make animated news. For Taiwanese News Animators, Funny Videos Are Serious Work...
View ArticleAAJA-Asia NewNowNext Conference Highlights
Organized by the Asia chapter of the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA) and the Journalism & Media Studies Centre @ HKU, the NewNowNext annual journalism conference aims to help become a...
View ArticleA tribute to Kenji Goto and the ever elusive craft of journalism
Some things in life are worth way more than pieces of long paper with a short future. Because sometimes, life is even shorter---and unfortunately we don't know when it'll be over. Read more →
View ArticleEven in Taiwan, my life is still super random.
So after work last Friday, I was minding my own business sitting outside of the huge shopping complex in my part of Taipei, drinking a Chu-Hi (yeah, I still do that). Along come these 2 guys shooting a...
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