世論 What Japan Thinks

I see the 2007 Bloggies are open for nominations. I could ask for a nomination in the Asian Weblog category, but I know that I’m not the best (although last year’s winner was perhaps not the best), but I think I would rather get noticed in the best topical or best-kept-secret (is that best-kept secret or best kept secret?) categories. If you could drop my blog’s name into any of these categories I’d be more than grateful!

Second, with all the survey companies being on holiday, and of course with me being on holiday too, the quality’s been a bit lower than usual. My apologies for that, but I’ve got a nice topical survey in the pipeline, and hopefully next week will see a flood of new market research for me to translate.

Third, even if that happens, I’m in cram mode for the Kanji Kentei next month, so perhaps I might have slightly less time than usual to translate, so if I drop to a frequency of once every two days, you know why!

Sorry folks, but real life is still very busy, and may be hectic for another couple of weeks as I’m studying for a kanji exam that should be quite tricky, given my total inability to write kanji properly! I’ve also decided I should open another blog to allow my more creative side (if I have one, of course) to develop, or at least just provide an outlet for general moaning about Japan, life and everything, and a test-bed for various blogging tools and stuff. I’ll officially announce it once I get it set up correctly and get a wee bit of content.

I’ve had an embarrassingly huge amount of hits for my H*T N*K*D J*P*N*S* T**NS post! Almost 25% of my traffic for a week came in through Technorati tags, and just this week I’ve got into the MSN Search index and been having a steady flow of hits from pervie searches. I’ve had but one Google hit in all the time I’ve been in there, but MSN Search seems to be turning up the goods for me.