Quick note on the time delay on this blog

There are around ten posts queuing up. Takashiro-san and me are feeling bad about that. The last weeks have been very intense and very, very fruitful. New interviews come first, and as ethnographers we also have to write diaries, organise meetings, read material, watch and analyse Nico videos and comments, read your blogs (how can you be so fast?), learn Nico language, travel, think through ideas, understand technical details, organise stuff back home …

I just write this, in case anyone is wondering, why there are still so many amazing encounters unmentioned on this blog. They will come up, one by one, I promise. I write them one after the other, whenever I have time. This time delay is not ideal, but I see no other option at this point. Combining ethnographic research with a blog is a new experience, and a very good one. It ads a new form of feedback to ethnographic research. Please forgive that we are so slow!

Nico Nico Douga on US Wired, and live "on air"

It is a good feeling to be as an Academic research project up speed with Wired (US edition) ...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-06/mf_hiroyuki?currentPage=1

The article focuses in large parts on Hiroyuki, and gives a useful introduction into 2channel as well as Nico Nico Douga in English. However, I am not sure about the Wired-ish idea to call Nico Nico Douga "the beginning of the Japan's web 2.0 boom" - I tend to agree with the Nico Chuu, who see themselves far beyond this.

While I am writing this, there is a (rare) live broadcast on Nico Nico Douga - Hiroyuki, Koizuka-san, Sugimoto-san and some other key figures of Nico Nico Douga are reflecting on Nico Nico Douga "live on air", and make lots of jokes, while users comment on the screen, and ask them to do the "Ran Ran Ruu". Feels like Nico Nico Douga on speed.