EAS190

Photographs

In particular, I found the blog hmmn to be really interesting. There was a link to a blog written by an foreign english teacher about universtiy students that was also interesting. I always find the experiences of foreigns in Japan interesting. There is one blog that I read a few months ago by another english teacher in Japan that was really good, but I don't remember the address. I'll have to find it and post it. Teaching in Japan seems to be a stressful, strange, but sometimes rewarding experience. I'm also very interested in pictures because, as they say they are worth 1000 words. Looking over a few, I notice that there seems to be a fashion trend in Japan for multiple really spikey labret piercings. So Flickr is really cool, since you can get pictures of a lot of really random stuff (search for lockers).

Tsunami

One of my best friends from in high school is doing a year long study abroad program in Thailand. He has been in Bangcock since August and witnessed the tsunami first-hand. Sending email accounts each month regarding the status of the people and the land, I have been very interested to follow-up myself. Seemingly, the rebuilding process has proved extremely slow: many of the bodies have yet to be identified or even discovered. Aside from the mass destruction and loss of lives, the reason this tsunami was such a tragedy results from the lack of warning; globally there is need for an emergency warning system. While the tsunami may have been imminent, some of the effects could have been lessened with proper notification and safety precautions. Currently, after much hesitation, tourism is starting to pick back up, but that will also take a long time to rebuild. Sadly, much of Thailand's history was destroyed. Anyway, just some thoughts....

Here's a good website:

http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1081

Enron Movie

I was reading over some of my bloglines today and found some interesting stuff. In the Mark Cuban blog, he makes reference to a movie based on the Enron Energy Company scandal. This company, based in Houston, was responsible for energy blackouts in California among other corporate nightmares. As a dissatisfied accounting major, I found the Enron scandal intriguing because it provided a real world example of the the boring rules and regulations I was learning about. The movie was released on Friday in Houston and New York. It is based on the book The Smartest Guys in the Room. The book is pretty technical but a good read for anyone interested. If interested, visit www.enronmovie.com. Also, can someone tell me how to add a link in the blog, I seemed to have forgotten.

Comparative study: women in workforce, Japan/US

I am actually attending a conference in Japan this summer and already have a specific target in mind for research: A comparative study of the effects of women participation in the workforce.
In my Econ of Japan class, we spent a significant amount of time discussing the economic implications of women working, I decided for my research to focus on the social implications.
After browsing through the websites, I found J-stor to be most helpful, however sometimes its articles are not very recent.
The website from Indiana university East Asian Studies center seems to give alot of useful links but I havent gone through them.
Also the East Asian library from UCLA also provides alot of links and resources.
The Electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies has some interesting articles, but it does have many. Worth making a search to see if your topic of interest can be found there.
I liked Asia times as it had different articles on current issues, from different viewpoints.
Many of the websites can help one find an interest, but does not exactly help in detailed research resources (some require you to pay)

blog search engine

Has anyone been able to find a blog search engine? I hate scrollin through all the webpages when I am looking for blogs... anyways i found movie blog which would probably be pretty interesting for everyone to look at because I am sure everyone likes movies...
-clint

I almost forgot. One of my fraternity brother's father mentioned something about an article by Burish where he cites himself incorrectly as an author of some other article. I was wondering if anyone has run across it, because I think it would be pretty interesting to read.

A look into Japan

Tried finding some nice blogs, but only found this one.
For all those EAS majors or simple interest in Japan. Gives you videos of living in Japan or other cultural events

http://www.video-link.com/jpn.htm

Google, getting to big?

I can see that google's success has encouraged it to expand into other fields of internet use. Before our class last week, I didnt know about scholar.google.
I tried a few searches but dont think they work too well yet (compared to resources in our library's webpage). I will check out froogle next time I plan to buy some computer equipment.
I do recommend using google mail though. I find it very convenient and useful even though it its still a beta version (and I currently have 2 gbs of space for free). I dont know how secure it is, but so far I trust it.
Hope google does try to do too much and end up with unprofitable businesses and lose out in the competition against microsoft and yahoo.

Froggle

Froggle is dangerous, and I would probably be better not knowing it existed. Only kidding. I happen to love shopping online, particularly because we live in a location where in-store shopping is minimal. Froggle is really interesting in how it compares prices of items ranging from mascara to irons to mp3 players. It tells you where you can buy the item and how much it costs in addition to providing consumer ratings and reviews. I think it is just fascinating, and I'm looking forward to exploring it more the next time I make an online purchase.

Blogging

I found some intersting blogs today. One is run by students from Indiana University Law School. It isn't very popular but I'm hoping to get an idea of thier interests and dialy routine from reading their postings. I also joined the blog run by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He has ridiculous opinions about everything so some of his articles are quite humorous. Plus he throws bits of basketball information in every now and then.

Tripping Around

I've been looking around bloglines, and it's been pretty enjoyable. I hooked up the blogs of my friends (from blurty.com) and boing boing, so now I have 6 different feeds. Boing Boing is a lot of fun, and I much prefer it to endgadget, which is a bit to technical for me. I tripped over an interesting blog off of Penny Arcade, which is an online gaming comic I like to read. Sadly, the two authors appear to be splitting up. Anyway, this is the link to the blog I found.

A springboard for Week 2

Take a look at 4/20/2005
Tagging for Chinese-Japanese dialogue, some of which probably won't make much sense to you yet. This is another example of the it's-here-NOW world we're exploring, and sort of analogous to the sudden appearance of the Benedict XVI page on Wikipedia.

Brian Lamb quotes Stephen Downes

A lovely posting by one of the people I've been following for some time, with a really trenchant quotation from another of my current heroes:

I was just starting to head back to the office when Stephen Downes's formulation of information as a flow popped into my head -- not artifacts that you collect but a torrent that you try to navigate and redirect. There's a lot I like about his comparison of information to electricity and water, it intuitively fits with how I feel when I'm on top of my info-streams, and I have taken to quoting that riff regularly during presentations and workshops. Downes returned to this theme yesterday in challenging the "premise ...that campus computing is contributing to information overload, and that the solution is to turn off the computer once in a while," arguing that "this just makes information overload worse, because the information doesn't stop piling up just because you've logged off. The key (in my mind) is to stop treating information like a thing, stop treating it as though it were a pile of required reading, but to sample and filter and redirect, to taste and digest and manipulate as needed. Information management is a skill, like kayaking, and needs to be practiced."

One of the points I want to emphasize with everything we do is that sensitive and creative management of one's information universe(s) is the objective.

Finding the Right Country

I am an Econ/EA Studies major and wish to work in international business after I graduate. I will probably go for a MBA or JD program after graduating
I like travelling and learning about new cultures (food) and that is why I wish to work in international business. I would like to get to know more of Asia first and then move to Europe.
I am also interested in social issues (especially the differences that arise from generation to generation) and general news. I read online news (BBC) to keep track of global events.
My interst in international issues is probably because of the environment where I grew up in. I was born to Taiwanese parents but lived in Latin America for most of my life. I have always studied in American or International Schools.
Don't quite know where I will end up in 15 years from now, but I hope it will be an interesting country.

Brief Rundown

My name is Letisha, and I'm a sophomore East Asian Studies major. So far, my concentration has been on Japan...Japanese history, culture, etc. However, I would like to learn more about other East Asian countries. I am also studying in Japan next fall, so I would like to learn more about modern Japanese idiosyncrasies. I especially interested in people and cultures, which is why I am also an Anthro/Socio major.

starting out

Hey,
My name is Bret. I am a freshman and am going to be an east asian studies/business management major. I'm taking this class becasue I know I am going to have to at some point and don't have anything in particular I want to take right now. It sounds like it could be fun, but I really don't know what I am interested in yet. I like Japanese culture a lot and that is why I am an eas major. I had a lot of asian friends in high school and lived in an area of LA that was highly asian. I know that I want to work in the international field when I graduate, but I don't know how I am going to do that yet. So I geuss that I would like to research more about international relations with Japan.