Tag: internet

  • Sony Music Japan, You Make Me Suffer Sooooo Much

    Dear Sony Japan,

    I really want to love you, but I understand our complicated relationship. Every time I pull closer to you, you pull away, retreating to your closed existence where there is only fans of your music in Japan and you forget about me, who just like a person who can’t get enough of this mistreatment keeps coming back to you.

    I know I need therapy for this one-sided relationship we got going on.

    I am hoping that one day (soon, rather than later) you allow me to love you the way I want to. I don’t want ALL of you, I’d be just happy with short PVs… the one or two-minute clips other companies upload. I can deal with that, but not being able to even BROWSE your content while being able to see it uploaded on my timeline seems like an awfully unfair affair.

    Yours faithfully,

    your unwilling mistress.

  • Why Are People So Angry?

    I’m not even talking about online trolls, it’s regular people you run into your daily life. Someone does something stupid, and as a response this other person spits at this other person. Why?

    You’re online answering a question, that you might get or not exactly right, and there’s someone out there who replies back calling you names instead of just stating the right answer.

    People say something and there’s people making death threats.

    Why are people so angry?

    Someone needs a little Piñata therapy. ;P

  • From the Vault: Yu-chan’s Canon Sis Bday

    Of course, it’s Yu’s birthday, (She is 27 now!!!) and my Weibo timeline was flooded with Yu-chan photos all this time wishing her a happy birthday. xD

    Anyway, one of the pics was this one of Yu with her Canon-sisters Yamada Yu and Kaho, birthday cake, candles, and all.

    Isn’t Weibo the BEST?

    お誕生日おめでとう、蒼井優！

  • Why the IOC Ruined Social Olympics

    It’s all about money, of course. The International Olympic Committee wants to retain all the control of its brand — who can blame them? — and to retain its control online, it took the social media control from the London Olympic committee, unlike what happened back at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

    To Olympics lovers’ surprise, the Vancouver Olympic Committee was allowed free social media range, which they put to good use with online apps, tweeting athletes interacting with fans, the whole shebang [1]. I don’t actually care about online apps (nor Vancouver’s nor London’s), and I don’t care if athletes tweet. My only interest in the Olympics is watching the games and finding photographs xD

    Cool photo, huh?

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  • WordPress, Jetpack, Comment Slow Down and Other Features~

    Everyone loves to hate Jetpack. I actually hated the fact that… 1. I was forced to switch WP-Stats for it, and 2. How long it took them to address the fact that Jetpack had a YouTube embed conflict. It took them so long, that I had to choose between proper YouTube sizing or web stats.

    A few days ago, I got a new Jetpack update that told me I had two new features. The first one was… COMMENTS. I could finally have the same commenting features that WordPress-hosted blogs had.

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  • From the Vault: Yu Aoi in School~

    Jewels from Weibo. xD

    I have no idea where people find these things…

    I feel a little like invading her privacy… maybe I shouldn’t post these, huh? What do you think?

  • Weibo goes Kandian~

    Weibo just rolled its latest feature… Kandian integration.

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  • Popular, where (in the Twitterverse) are they now?

    I’ve been talking a lot about Popular lately, it feels [1]…

    So I was updating yammag lists — especially the actors one — and I usually double-check people’s follows (sometimes to my disappointment ToT – I’m looking at you, Naka Riisa >,<). Anyway, it turns out Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) follows Leslie Bibb, then I checked her follows and found that she was following Tamara Mello.

    Things went on, and I decided to make a list of everyone who was on Popular that was on Twitter.

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  • Music Production Schools’ School of Pop

    We’re always bombarded with news at how the music (and movies, and everything else) industry is losing money to piracy, even though we keep hearing all these facts about how Glee has had more songs charted than The Beatles.

    When Sarah, from the Music Production Schools’ design team, emailed me this infographic depicting all these facts onto one place… is hard not to share, right?

    I won’t lie to you, the numbers are good — though I really don’t know how that works with adjusted inflation — but the numbers also make me sad. To imagine Katy Perry standing on similar ground as MJ or Flo Rida standing on similar ground to The Beatles… or Ke$ha selling MORE than The Beatles. It’s depressing.

    Mainly because there are MUCH better artists out there, and half the world haven’t even heard about them. I think it’s a crime that everyone knows Katy Perry, but it’d be rare if someone knows who Shiina Ringo is.

    In any case, this is an infographic about sales~ so there you have it.

    Full infographic after the break~

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  • From the Vault: Yu Aoi on Casting Interview at Age 14

    I always wanted to use that phrase: “From the Vault” LOL. Have I said how much I love Weibo? You find all these gems uploaded all the time. It’s amazing.

    Yu-chan was so young in this one that she didn’t even write the kanji for “sai” next to her age.