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JET Teacher Rocking in Hakata, Ehime

January 27th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

Among many things, Deas Richardson is an English teacher on the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) programme. That alone makes his blog essential reading for any prospective Japan-bound JET participant, and there’s plenty more to satisfy anyone with a keen interest in Japan.
The man behind the blog
Describing Deas is best left to his students [...]

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Japan It Up Before You Leave

January 23rd, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

Before I talk about Japan It Up, a new blog that has already made its mark in the Japan bloggers’ community, I have to get something off my chest…
How anonymous should an anonymous blog be?
Recently, I’ve come across a number of bloggers who choose to use codenames to hide their identity. Two that come [...]

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A Typical Life… In Japan

January 20th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

Shane was one of the first people to register at JapanSoc, and has been active in the community ever since. Some of the many articles she’s submitted come from her own blog, A Typical Life. This is a site she started in November of last year, but Shane has been working hard to fill it [...]

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The Life and Times of Michael McKinlay

January 18th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

Mike McKinlay is a name my longterm readers will know very well. For a full year, Mike was this blog’s top commentator and most avid reader. For a little while there, he lost his blogging mojo when Google robbed him of his PageRank, and thus the income he was earning from paid reviews dried up.
His [...]

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Tips and Tricks for Survival in Japan

January 15th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

One of the first blogs I ever subscribed to was LifeHacker, a blog jammed with tips and tricks to increase productivity. When it comes to living in Japan, the equivalent blog would be NihonHacks, a collection of time and money-saving tips for foreign students, visitors or “lifers”.
Top Tips and Tricks from NihonHacks
NihonHacks is the work [...]

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JapanSoc Voting Button for Blogs

January 13th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

submit_url = ‘http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/01/13/japansoc-voting-button-for-blogs/’;By now you’ll know that I’ve started a social bookmarking site for everything Japan-related. If you’ve registered for JapanSoc and write about Japan on your own blog, then you’ll probably want this Digg-style voting button on your site.
What does the button do?
It allows your readers to easily submit your blog posts to JapanSoc, [...]

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Blogging, beer and bugs

April 5th, 2007 by Nick Ramsay

I’m back in the classroom this week for a new school year, and my students are a year older than they were last month.
During my week off, I kept myself busy working on my new technology blog Nice4Rice.com, which sees me, as Spud Oregon, reviewing tech-related websites and giving blog owners a chance to get [...]

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