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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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Get ESL Tips from Chris’ English School

January 16th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

One of the more recent blogs I’ve subscribed to is that of ESL teacher, Chris Ballard. Born in Hawaii, but now residing in Yanai city in Yamaguchi, Chris runs his own English school out of his own home.
Another disgruntled English teacher? NO!
What makes this blog so unique is that instead of criticising the ESL [...]

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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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Japan Exposed Through Opinion Poll Translations

January 12th, 2008 by Nick Ramsay

Foreign perception of Japan is often tarnished by sweeping generalizations made by people who lack the language skills and tools necessary to understand the real thoughts and actions of Japan’s general public.
What Japan Thinks
Introducing Ken Y-N, a legend among Japan bloggers and the face behind What Japan Thinks, a blog full of English translations [...]

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My favorite blogs

November 8th, 2006 by Nick Ramsay

I’ve been writing a lot of posts about Japan since I started this blog and not enough about English teaching or making money on the internet. Today, I’ll focus on the internet side of things.
The first thing I do every day is check my email (read ‘delete spam’) and then I log straight into my [...]

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