Cellular Life in Japan

Note: as I noted in the comment, this wasn't meant to appear here, but digg sent it here.

Trying out a new thing: blogging from digg:

MIT Technology Review interviews Japanese anthropologist Mizuko Ito, about his work on Japan's mobile-phone culture. Main point: "the way Japanese consumers actually use cell phones and other mobile paraphernalia is an outcome of historical and sociological factors unique to Japan."

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Hello World (Cup)

One of those nights that I can't sleep. I was thinking about next summer. My pipe dream of spending the month of the Cup in Brazil is looking less and less likely.

But I would like to repeat the daily e-newsletters that I wrote and sent out during the 2002 tournament. But it's also unlikely I'll have the time to watch as many games and write them up.

It just occurred to me: why not use "the wisdom of crowds" to get around this time crunch? The idea: sent invites to everybody on my soccer mailing list to contribute their tourament accounts here.