Tracking Twitter reponses to Obama’s Town Hall in China
Earilier today Barack Obama had one of his famous ‘Town Hall Meetings’ in Shanghai, where he took questions from Chinese youth in attendance and from questions posed on the internet. Naturally, there were some interesting responses to all this on Twitter. As a sort of exercise in ‘Twitter coverage,’ I tried experimenting with Chris’ TwitBlog [...]
September 28 Seminar: Making the Shift to Online Journalism
Ok, so here’s the deal. I’m giving this seminar thingy in cooperation with Media Tectonics. The purpose of the talk is to explain to people who write for a living how they might use a blogger’s web-tool arsenal to be more competitive in online publishing. (Update: Just to clarify, the talk will be in [...]
Musical Tesla Coils in Japan: Nicola would be shocked…
There was an abundance of NicoNico Tech at the Make Tokyo Meeting this past weekend. Among all of the Hatsune Miku projects, the musical tesla coil had to be the best. I managed to shoot a little video so you can see – and more importantly hear – what’s going on.
The project was created by [...]
Tokyo CGM Night 4
The latest Choo/Shuttleworth CGM event was held at Super Deluxe last night. As always it was a great chance to catch up with old friends and meet some new ones too. It was especially fun catching up with Shane Sakata, the writer behind The Nihon Sun. Her blog is one of my favorite Japan blogs [...]





