Tokyo Metblogs » Blogs http://tokyo.metblogs.com Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:21:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Come Blog With Us http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2008/08/28/come-blog-with-us/ http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2008/08/28/come-blog-with-us/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:04:16 +0000 MBHQ http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2008/07/28/come-blog-with-us/ moar.gif Writing for Metblogs has the potential to be the most rewarding experience in your entire life. It’ll make you rich, famous, good looking, will help you lose weight, make your clothes fit better, and get you a super good deal on a new car. It will make you the most well known person on the entire planet. Yes, each and every one of you. Really.

OK maybe not. Actually those are all lies, but it’s fun at least. The truth is Metblogs is the largest network of locally focused blogs on the web, covering almost 60 cities around the world and we’re looking to add a few new bloggers/writters/authors to this fine site. If you wanna know more about us check out this wikipedia entry but it’s kinda boring so I won’t waste time repeating it all here again. If you wanna write for us, here’s the scoop:

  • All author positions are volunteer. That means you don’t get paid.
  • You must live in (or very near) the city you plan to write about.
  • Anything you post must relate to the city somehow. That means you shouldn’t post a movie review, but talking about going to see a movie at a local theater is fine.
  • There’s no requirement for how much you can or should write, but we ask that if we set you up as an author you make about 3 posts a week.
  • You can post about things you love, you can post about things you hate. It’s entirely up to you

Additionally, because of our global network, there’s plenty of options for things you write to be read by people all over the world. Interested? Want more details? Post a comment and we’ll be in touch!

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As I wrote on his blog, the ideas are great in theory, but I worry that the problem is much more ingrained culturally and a few government measures won’t change the situation much. There would need to be a wholesale change in the image of women in the workplace for the measures to be effective.

However, in the end, the problem of declining birth-rates is common in most rich industralised nations and with the extreme population density in Japan, I don’t see the big problem if the population decreases slightly. Sure, there will need to be a solution to the Pensions issue, but the government has plenty of ways to raise cash for that (Sales tax, less needless road construction and so on).

What do people think about this?

]]> http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2007/02/08/japan-look-to-scandinavia/feed/ 1 Good bye Yokohama (;_;) http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/09/22/good-bye-yokohama-_/ http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/09/22/good-bye-yokohama-_/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:20:00 +0000 tok_lhuga http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/09/22/good-bye-yokohama-_/ I left Japan 2 days ago.
So this will be my last post for Metroblogging Tokyo.
Of course I keep writing for my personal weblogs, so if you are interested in, please visit them.

I really loved MetrobloggingTokyo and was always proud of being one of authors.

Thanks for our readers, authors, and everyone !
See you again someday.

]]> http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/09/22/good-bye-yokohama-_/feed/ 3 Come on! We want New Authors! http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/06/08/come-on-we-want-new-authors/ http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/06/08/come-on-we-want-new-authors/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:14:05 +0000 tok_lhuga http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/06/08/come-on-we-want-new-authors/ We, Metroblogging Tokyo, are looking for New Authors writing for us

Do you have a blog ? Love to take photos and blogging ?
It might be a chance to express your opinions, photographs, and something else about Tokyo (and Kanto Area) to the World !

Application is here. It will be open till the end of this month; 30th June.
If you have any question, please write a comment, we will check here and answer you ASAP.

We are looking forward to your joining !

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あなたも Metroblogging Tokyo で書いてみませんか?

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Please have this lovely rss feed below. I already put it in my Firefox !

http://feeds.metroblogging.com/allcities.xml

Enjoy :)

]]> http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/03/30/new-feed/feed/ 0 Maiko Blog http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/01/22/maiko-blog/ http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/01/22/maiko-blog/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:35:08 +0000 tok_yuki http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2006/01/22/maiko-blog/ ichi.jpg
Maiko Blog. Maiko is a Geiko or Geisha in training. Nowadays there’s even a blog written by a real maiko in Kyoto. It’s in Japanese, written in the geisha dialect, but she has pictures sometimes.

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