On Friday of this week I will be participating in a 24 hour global moblog event organised by Raphael Grignani, who runs the moblog Daily Hellsinki. The thing goes from July 4th at 8 am to July 5th at 8 am. The page where the whole thing will appear is still being tested, so I’ll post the link on Friday when the whole thing starts (and because of time zones, it is us Tokyoites who lead the way). My section will basically look like what you usually see here in TB except that I’ll probably be a lot more active. Should be fun.
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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.
Jean Snow is a daily contributor to Wired magazine's game blog, Game|Life, covering game news from Japan and beyond.
Tokyolife: Art and Design covers Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives. Jean Snow provided coordination assistance.
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hey jean, where can I find out more info about this? i checked the Daily Hellsinki page but couldn’t find the info….
I received an email asking me if I wanted to participate, so that’s how I got to be a participant. He probably looked around for sites of people doing moblogs, and then contacted the creators. You could probably email Raphael directly for more info (there must be an email address on his site).
well, his “about” page says “feel free to contact me,” but there’s no email to be found, nor any mention of the 24-hour thing. finally found the URL after digging around: http://media-diary.net/24/ but doesn’t seem like it’s open to anyone…oh well, no biggie
I’ll email you his address.