Some materials for 26 April

?what do you know about podcasting? How would you find out more? (try google search 'podcasting wlu')
Brewster Kahle on "universal access to all knowledge"
Cory Doctorow: on the economics of Information, on Down and Out, on the future of publishing, and on Jam and Underpants Gnomes

del.icio.us

a9.com

Searching the blogosphere: daypop.com and feedster.com and technorati.com

"young gentlemen" and healy example

ADDENDUM: to see what I meant about JOURNALISM, see Tim Porter's blog

AND ANOTHER: a perspective on folksonomies

hmmn (a mostly-photo mostly-Japan blog)

Metroblogging Tokyo

google search 'blogs japan'

Harajuku

Harajuku : quartier chaud de Tokyo

cosplay

Harajuku June 2003

Bibliography of Asian Studies

World News Connection

Asia Times

Japan Times

JSTOR

OED

Asia for Educators from Columbia

Area Handbooks: China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea

Some map images from NASA's World Wind: Guangdong

dmoz.org for Asia, and for East Asian Studies