Posts by Hadyn Green
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Nice write up Garth. Japan is oddly iPhone light, with other smartphones crowding the market there (though Apple are making serious inroads). But the Japanese love social networks and last year every phone was advertised as "perfect for twitter and facebook", "message your friends", "video chat!" etc etc And not just phones, hand held game consoles too (Nintendo, PSP et al)
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It kinda makes sense to evacuate. Even if you don't think it'll go to a full meltdown, move people now just in case.
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Field Theory: Japan moves, in reply to Jim Cathcart,
While I agree that the Western media tends to focus on the wacky side of Japan, there are many non-Japanese journalists who have actually pushed the envelope in search of the truth in Japan.
I should've been clearer, I meant our media. I have been reading and watching only local Japanese news (where I can) about this. And as you say western journalists who are based in Japan are doing some very good work.
Naly at TV3 sent me a couple of very good twitter feeds from American journalists that I've started following: @martyn_williams and @w7voa
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Field Theory: Japan moves, in reply to recordari,
Dude, did you just link to the article that I linked to in the original post? :)
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Field Theory: Japan moves, in reply to Russell Brown,
I stopped quoting Newstalk ZB after a bogus report that the Christchurch airport control tower was down -- because I was promptly corrected via people on Twitter
Though when I corrected people on twitter about the tsunami alert being recalled I was told that I was wrong (I wasn't) because NHK was saying the tsunami was coming. NHK in English mind you, so possibly delayed.
So I think my point is still valid. The media knows very little about Japan or can't understand the language, so we get garbled reports that are repeated. When the disaster was here we had the knowledge to be able to filter out incorrect information quickly.
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I just had a lengthy... let's call it a conversation on twitter about the "breaking journalism" on that platform. A few minutes after that tsunami warning had been called off, Stuff tweeted that a tsunami was coming. This lead me to my new decision about getting my news from twitter: fuck that.
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Thank god I'm getting out of the city that day!
(not really)
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Ok weird, that whole last section should be quoted, not sure what’s going on there.
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Field Theory: Japan Part Two: It's…, in reply to Joanna,
I was a 16 year old boy in Tokyo and did spend a lot of time in Roppongi bars (and riding bikes in Osaka suburbs). But now I've been to better ones, and loved it more. Though I wish I had a badass best friend to show me around the big city.
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I got to the bit about "macaroni" and burst out laughing. To the point of crying. I also realised that at the same time I had doubled over with my legs firmly together and was subconsciously protecting my genitals. Great story!