A Couple of Tidbits on Japanese Newspapers

 (1) The print circulation of the top Japanese newspapers is staggering.  The five largest newspapers in the world in terms of circulation are all from Japan.  The largest Japanese paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, has a circulation of 14,067,000.  To put that in perspective, the largest paper in the United States, USA Today,...

The Use of the Internet by Japanese Newspapers

As a complement to our study on the use of Web 2.0 tactics by the top 100 U.S. newspaper, we took a look at how the twenty largest Japanese newspapers are using the Internet.  Overall, we found that Japanese papers are not taking aggressive Web strategies (except when it comes to cell phones),...

ImpactWatch is Turning Japanese

Our media monitoring product, ImpactWatch, has always been able to accept and display non-English news articles.  But we recently had a client that wanted to take things a step further and create a version of ImpactWatch entirely in Japanese (navigation, drop downs, everything).  We just finished the work (see sample screenshot below) and the infrastructure improvements we made mean that we can now rapidly deploy ImpactWatch in just about any language a client requires....

Ten Technologies Change the World

John Voelcker, an interactive media strategist, released a review of the top ten technologies that are changing the world. His list is based on technologies developed by social entrepreneurs who thought through the development , usability and financing of their solutions. 

Voelcker's list is as follows, followed by summaries (based on his paper) of what these products actually do:

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YouTube and the George Allen Video

Rolling Stone has a story on their blog about YouTube's role in exposing and spreading the now infamous George Allen Listening Tour video.  Here's a quote from the article:

There’s a paradigm shift under way and politicians like Allen, and to a lesser extent Joe Lieberman and Barbara Boxer,...