Welcome to the fifty-third edition of the What Japan Thinks
newsletter. Late again!
Site stories
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City life:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/02/actualities-of-city-living/
Yahoo! users everywhere!
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/03/yahoo-used-daily-by-over-two-in...
Online gaming:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/04/online-gaming-in-japan/
Online food ordering:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/05/food-ingredients-internet-order...
Digital music and video obtaining:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/06/barely-two-percent-of-japanese-...
Health checks:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/07/lifestyle-diseases-in-japan/
My favourite of the week, but disappointed not to get any comments.
More on Yahoo! overuse:
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/03/08/browsing-and-bookmarking-habits...
Gaijin web buzz
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I meant to post this last week, but forgot!
http://jasongray.blogspot.com/2008/02/la-giwaku-two-bit-celebrity-kaz...
Good background on what the Miura LA extradition is all about.
Statistics
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I had an interesting survey that I had bookmarked somewhere, but I now
can't find it...
Other news
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I'll have to try to find some background on this story:
http://www.japaneconomynews.com/2008/03/09/sony-to-stop-making-cellul...
Blogging
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As I mentioned last week, I gave up on one new site plan, as I have
had another even better idea for a minimal effort blog in a vast and
mostly untapped segment (only one competing blog) collating Google
News and Blog Search results. It involves products that can sell for
figures from a few dollars to tens of thousands, and Google search
statistics suggests that there is a decent amount of search traffic.
I've been spending this weekend adding content, some retrospectively
to make the blog look more timely and older. I'll tell you the URL
next week.
Had my first big sale through my bum marketing - someone bought nearly
$300 worth of stuff from Strapya! Yay! But this year they bumped their
commission down to 5% a sale, so just $15 profit for me. Boo!
I got bumped off number one slot for iphone japan by electro^plankton
again. I wrote another article and I'll see how long from publishing
before I pop back up on top.
And finally
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Ahh, our union - we have, as a forerunner to a strike (hah!) to show
we mean business, a work-to-rule. Yay! However, the rule is to go home
by 10 pm. Boo! It's a ban on late-night working for one whole month,
which I'm sure will have the management quaking in their boots,
especially as the union has previously stated that their mission, as
part of "Life-Work Balance", is to eliminate it. Oh, and there are
exceptions, of course, for people like me who do midnight
teleconferences from home with foreign climes.
