If you’re not up on the latest SNS trends these days, then I’ll understand your shock when you hear that the latest trend online is…brace yourself… ANIMATED GIFS. Don’t ask me why, but what’s old has become new again, although…
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My weekend in photos — June 1 & 2 [Photo]
My weekend was pretty busy. Had an AAJA luncheon with the organization’s president along with other members in town from Hong Kong and the US. Then I went to the African Trade Fair sponsored by JETRO. The next day though–…
Twitter 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 coordiates from the tweets themselves…
Cara…what now?!
Ever the watchdog for things in Japan that just don’t really make any sense, this time I rant about a booze commercial that’s borderline racially ignorant… The commercial I’m referencing is for Kirin Caraboon Wine Cooler… Which now that I…
Tagged with: japan, racism, step and fetch it, Television, Wine cooler
Posted in HaterVision, japan, video
Posted in HaterVision, japan, video
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 you’ll never see that much backpedaling unless watching the Tour De France on…
Bay City Yokohama [Photo]
A few shots I took of Yokohama’s Bayfront I took on a recent trip downtown
Tall Crane at Work [Photo]
Jeez, the new building is only 4 floors but they needed the Sky Tree of cranes to do it?
Aereo is a service that streams over-the-air HDTV to where you are via the internet
When I was living in Atlanta before moving back to Japan, I was what they call “a cord-cutter” — someone who decided to give up cable and satellite TV, as well as just using my cell phone as my only…
Google mashes all it’s storage options together to give you 15GB free storage
Come Together! Google Products!Looks like the folks over at Google are taking your storage space and moving all in one spot. You can now have 15GB for you to share across Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. This is just one of…
Apparently students in move house the same way as I did in… [Photo]
Apparently #college students in #Japan move house the same way as I did in America: cheaply. Also that’s a guy in the back.
