D-Day is here!!
Today (October 5, Japan Time) is the day we will be implementing the big changeover that I described here.
Sometime today, JAPUNDIT and JAPAN NEWS JUNKIE both will go off line for a few hours as we implement our new design and transfer databases to proper locations.
When we re-appear, this blog will be located at blog.japundit.com.
What was JAPAN NEWS JUNKIE will become JAPUNDIT, and JAPAN NEWS JUNKIE will cease to exist at japannewsjunkie.com. All of the JAPAN NEWS JUNKIE stories, comments, and members will be ported over to the new JAPUNDIT.
We would like to invite everyone to join the new JAPUNDIT site and help out by submitting stories, voting on stories submitted by others, and commenting on stories.
Thanks to everyone for your understanding.
Q.2: EC, do you occasionally go to arise from underneath the futon ..then mutter to yourself “it-can-all-just-XXXX - WAIT”. (and hop back in).
(*!*)
remora
October 6th, 2008 at 7:39 amNo. . . In fact, that’s my biggest problem!
October 6th, 2008 at 9:49 amThere are people out there who view JAPUNDIT’s moves as a threat (or at least a challenge) that needs to be countered by slogans, testimonials, incestuous linking, and even something called “underground campaigning around Tokyo.”
Interesting.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:42 amI just received word that we are about to enter the switch. Catch you on the other side!
October 6th, 2008 at 10:58 amWell, things seem to have turned out pretty well. The main page is functioning properly with a number of new members having joined.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:30 pmlogged in from school just to say the new japundit.com looks great! nice job Ed.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:07 amHey, thanks, sputnik. Here’s hoping we will be able to get more people involved.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:35 amWow. I think the new site looks great. And it’s great to see that it is so busy with news stories. Well done.
October 8th, 2008 at 1:44 amHi, Marie. Thanks for the kind words.
Please feel free to link stories from your blog if you see fit. The big rub with the new site is that it requires member participation.
October 8th, 2008 at 1:48 amUh, so does this mean we no longer write stories for the blog? But if I have a story that I think is appropriate, I should link to it from my own? With the drama in my own life, I missed the shift and am unclear as to what precisely has happened.
I see that Japan News Junkie is on the first page. The blog seems to be the old Japundit. But we no longer write blog posts for the blog?
I ask because I met with someone this week who spoke to me about the rollout of Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku perfume in Japan, and it was so interesting, it seemed like the kind of thing I would have posted on the old Japundit. I’m unclear how to contribute it now. Thanks
October 14th, 2008 at 9:55 amSorry for being unclear about this.
You and our other contributors are very much welcome to continue to contribute here.
Since the main even is over on the Japan News Page, however, I would strongly suggest after posting what you want to write here, that you create a summary on the Japan News Page that links back to your story here. That is what I do.
I put up an Open Thread over the weekend, and there was not a single comment, so I really don’t know how many people are still coming to the blog here.
Of course, if you write up a post for your own blog or some other location, you are welcome to post a summary on the Japan News Page as well.
The whole reason the changes were implemented here was because it was becoming too much of a chore to keep the blog updated. With the new Japan News Page, everyone is a contributor and everyone has a say about what makes it to the main page.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:59 amI see.
And do you have a sense of how the readers have changed, either numbers wise or otherwise?
October 14th, 2008 at 11:37 amThe overall site gets the same amount of visitor that we had prior to the change. I don’t have a breakdown of who is going where.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:54 am