Twitter is...

I think it is good because we can know that the person is doing now. I found that my favorite rock band joins twitter. It is natural that if someone you like such as actors or musicians write twitter, you are interested in it. Aren't you? So am I. But, I'm so lazy. So I think I'll be tired of it soon even if I use it.

BBQ

I had BBQ in futakosinchi on sunday. But the weather was so bad. So we have to work so hard. After BBQ I back to my home and sleep.

manner

I looked the manner poster in ie class. But I never seen the poster. So I want to see the poster in private. The poster is so simple, so we can understand what that want to say.

Media

Today, we can get a lot of information from the media. It includes TV, newspapers, internet, etc. You can say that now we cannot live without them, and it is really necessary for us. Many people have accounts of SNS like mixi, facebook, myspace, blog, messanger, skype, etc, and enjoy their time on the accounts. We can make friends and good connections and tell your friends about yourself and the events you did. We can also share information, so we can know a lot of new things. I think it is a good thing for people who are not good at talking face to face, so I recommend using those accounts.

Twitter

I checked Twitter the other day! It looks very easy and useful to tell the situation. But it is little bit troublesome because unless having machinery, we can't update our information. Maybe we don't have time to update many times. I think that it is useful for TV entertainer or so. It is very nice for fans to know what they are doing because usually we can't know the daily life of them! I have account of Facebook. I use it very much because I can keep in touch with friends who live far away. And it contains not only uploading statement but also photos etc. So I think it is useful than Twitter.
I'm going to visit Odaiba with my friend from Australia soon! can't wait!

My opinion about manner

I have seen those posters at some Tokyo metro stations. I think they are good to show what is good or bad to people. But, I also think those manners on the posters are all common senses and we should understand about them without seeing the posters.
And I can't stand someone sits on the train spreading his or her laps . If I sit next on him or her, I feel unpleasant. They can sit without spreading laps!

Media

There are many ways which tell us information. Thanks to them, we can know many information timely and certainly. In addition, each of them have each distinction, so we can choose the way according to the situations. Recently, I often use the Internet to get information which I want to know. The Internet is useful to so so, because it gets information faster than the newspapers or TV. But I think the Internet have disadventage, too. It is that the Internet have some wrong information and uncertain information. In fact, there are many accidents with Internet. So we have to care about getting infornation from each media.

Yesterday, I went to bowling with my friends of circle. We enjoyed it, but the clerks were angry. Because we took too long time for one game. So we have to hurry! In addition, we drank then, so we couldn't do as usual>< We could enjoy it, so that's no problem:)

media

I like watching TV very much. I see news in the morning, variety show and drama at night. I enjoy it. At the same time, I can know a lot of things, for example, happenings of foreign countries, politics and so on. However, we should be careful to them because their information can be false. Moreover, media have strong influence. Both people sending and people recieving have to think deeply.

Manner poster :D

I think manner posters are a great idea to realize how bad manners annoy people. However, I don't think these posters are really improving bad manners on the train. I still see people who are listening to music in a loud volume,talking on a phone and fixing make-up. I think people who are behaving bad manners never realize their actions are annoying people around them. So are these posters accomplishing its goal? I feel its just attracting people who are passing by and giving enjoyment.

I wonder why are they only on Tokyo Metro.

This picture is Yurika being excited because she saw this poster for the first time at Roppongi station this Saturday!lol

About Media

I think that a lot of information is too much by mass media. Sometimes there is unnecessary information.
We are confused by incorrect informaeion, so I want mass media to spread only correct and true information and at the same time we have to judge and distinguish incorrect information.

Too Hot!!

Today is very hot(><)!!!!
Last weekend, I play with friends of my part time job and we went to karaoke.
I had fun time. Playing with friends I do not usually do is fun for me. Although these days I am very too busy and tired, I can reflesh by playing. However this week I have to prepare for book report 2, so I will be busy><.

My favorite ones

Manner Posters

I knew these posters last summer and I thought it's a good idea to let people know what not to do in the train. I hadn't realized that same guy is in every poster until Dr. Armstrong told us on last Friday. It's really funny. I feel irritated that people talk on the phone, throw up, spit, and eat some smelly foods in the train. I can't understand people who don't care other people around them.

Last Saturday night, some guy was spitting in the train and that was really really disguisting. I think he should have wiped his spit at least....

I love this poster best!

posters

I sometimes see Mr. Yorifuji's manner posters on the trains or in stations. I think it is a good idea to make manner posters because people can mind their manners when they saw them. The train's manners are very important and people must know them. There are pictures on those posters, so they are easy to understand what we should not do. I often see people who do not obey the rules of trains. We need not to forget those manners when we use trains.

Manner Poster

I've seen the manner posters on train or at station. I thought that these posters are very funny and it is fun to see each poster. But it is proper that not to do the action of posters. I wonder why Japanese can't do something natural. Lately there are so many people who don't have common knowledge even adults. I even think that common knowledge doesn't exist.

Twitter

I'm kind of interested in Twitter. I've heard of it when I was in the U.S. But I had no idea what that is and i didn't care at all.
It's interesting that 140 letters at maximum and you can read people's messages around the world.
But since I can't keep up with writing down diary or blog regularly , I don't think I will make Twitter account. I think Twitter is very useful for short conversation though.

About Media

On Friday or Saturday, I watched a TV program about a sarin accident which occured in Nagano in 1994.Through this TV program, I realized how influential media are.

At first, many news programs said that Kouno Yoshiyuki might be a climinal. In fact, he was a victim of the accident and he and his wife suffered from the sarin. However, many news programs convey the information about the accident without enough proof, and he and his family suffered from the harassing such as silent calling. And this continued by the time it turned out that this accident was caused by Omu shinrikyou.
Finally, many media apologized to him, but we cannot forget this accident.

I think mass media have very big effect on our information so they have to convey true information and be resiponsible for what they convey.

Poster

I had never seen the poster which Dr.Armstrong showed us.
However, today, when I went to Shinjyuku with my elder sister to go shopping, I saw the poster at the station.
I think the poster makes us funny and that is really good.
Most of the manner poster is not funny that is the reason why we don't attract attention to it.
I think we have to more strict about manners and inculcate people's mind that breach of manners is not cool.

Poster

I saw the manner poster at Tokyo Metro for the first time at last class.

I think it is funny, simple and clear.
It is easy to understand. It is good for every people.

I hope public manner improve more by watching these posters.

Manner posters

I knew the existance of manner posters that serve the nine lines of the Tokyo Metro subway system by Bunpei Yorifuji for the first time at the last IE class. I honestly have never seen them before!! Then, I searched the manner posters in google and I found many posters. I'll show you some!!

I've not seen the person like this yet(^^;)

I love it(^o^)/

Both pictures are too funny!! \(>v<)/ I like the pictures Yorifuji drew and the way of painting! It's very simple and easy to understand! Also I like his way of reminder! The word "let's" doesn't make us think it is our duty and I feel it has a lot of warmth - like you can do it!

I think these social reminder is necessary for us because actually there are many people noticed they had caused some people trouble, thanks to these pictures. Even if these pictres are there, some people might not correct their wrong. However I'm sure these pictures help many people!

It should be continued in the future!

See you !!

Twitter.com

I'd never know about Twitter before Dr. Armstrong told us.

I think Twitter is similar to mixi. I am mixi user but I never wrote my journal or post my picture.That's because I am lazy and I also don't want to do it. I don't know even how to post. I think I don't need everyone to know about my private life. On the other hand, I want to know my friends life. This is the reason why I continue mixi.
I think these Internet services like Twitter and mixi is really useful to communicate with people.
However, it is sometimes become a weapon to heart people, I think. Is this the reason why Dr.Armstrong never participate Twitter?

Tokyo Metro Poster

I have seen this poster many times. The first time I saw it, I thought the things written on the poster was perfectly natural. Why did they need to make this type of poster? Women don't want to put make up on the train, they're just using time wisely. Drunk people don't want to barf in the train or sleep on the seats, they just don't feel well. Of course, it doesn't feel good looking at people throwing up, but they can't help it. Is it only me who think this way?

poster

Last Tuesday Dr. Armstrong showed us some posters but I have never seen them. I think these that posters are very unique. Most of posters emphasizes messages than designs. So they are sometimes boring. However, I think these posters have both messages and fun.
There are a lot of posters around us, for example, release of CDs or books, shops, sale information and special events. People don't tend to think of them deeply. Posters have various messages. In particular, messages for bad manner and smoking are very important. We should see wider area.

Media

Today, we have a lot of media.
And it gives us the various information.
But I do not know whether its information is true or not.
I think we are controlled by media.
Now, Michael Jackson's news appear, a while ago, the media was full of new flu.
But now new flu is happening.
We cannot already get information of it...
It is very bad point of media.

Twitter

Twitter is really useful.
I sometimes use it to know whether the train is overdue or not.
This information is fast and useful.

I have not joined it yet, only reading;(
But I want to join it if I have a free time.

Please do it at home

I have seen this kind of posters on the train some times.
But not until Dr. Armstrong introduced us the posters, I never cared about them because what the posters mean ia common sense.
I never put on making-up or lying on the sofa on the train, however I've seen some peoploe doing so. While I want nobody to do so, I cannot warn people who seem not to care manner.
So I think this kind of poster is needed to recognize us what manner is again.

On the other hands, I think it is not a good tendency that Japanese come to be less careful about manner. We should act neatly and try not to annoy others in public without any warnings. So we need to make sure how we should act in public again.

Poster

I have not seen the poster.
This time was the first time.

I thought all most of the Japanese, including me, have no moral mind, today.
So there are many posters in Japan like this.
Moreover, the age have changed.
Women who make up in the train are not ashamed, because everyone do the same thing in the train.
I thought The time when the age have changed was our parents age.
Grandmothers and grandfathers have moral mind and they take attention to something like making up.
But my parents age people pretend not to look at that thing.
We, our age people should have more moral mind.

Got manners?

Today, Dr. Armstrong showed us an article of a graphic artist who has produced a different kind of manners poster. I was really pleased that FINALLY someone has said something about people(generally businessman and college students) who vomit on trains and platforms. I think people who do so should take a good look at these posters and realise that it's something you are not supposed to do and other people are disgusted by these acts! However, I have a different point of view from the poster when it comes to the issue that women shouldn't put on their makeup on trains. I am used to seeing women putting on makeup on trains and it doesn't bother me at all.
The older generation tend to dislike watching women do so, but maybe it's just a generation gap.
If I could make a poster like these, I would draw a picture of a man reading an obscene manga or a dirty magazine on a train and write "Please do it in your own room" on top of it.

Michael has died

I can't believe it!!
Michael Jackson has died.

Everyone's talking about it.
There must be tons twittering about it too.
THE POWER OF THE MEDIA IS ENORMOUS!!

twitter

I think twitter is something very concise and wonderful.
Maybe if we make a movie with kids twitting and taking over school
might be fun.

Whew

It's been almost a full year since I came to Japan, and I think I've never been this busy in my life but I think I'm managing. During this time I've actually noticed something peculiar about how the Japanese don't really think about subtle implications when they interact with someone. For example I know an American man who married a Japanese woman. On the man's birthday his wife bought him a nose hair clipper. Now the man was worried about how his wife might be insinuating that his nose hair is always sticking out, but from his wife's perspective she was just simply buying it because it was his birthday. I can relate to this and I've had some times when I've wondered if the Japanese person I'm talking to is actually hinting at something when ever they say something that seems out of place. I've learned to not think too deeply about it but then if I overdo it then people will think I'm "KY"... Coping with different cultures is hard :(

Twitter

The amount of reputation twitter is gaining for its role as a de facto news source is a bit absurd. The media (I'm looking at you CNN) are over glorifying twitter. They claim that twitter will herald a new era of citizen journalism but what they fail to realize is that these "journalisms" lack a critical aspect: credibility. How do we know that what these people are twittering are entirely true? The fact is that we don't. With big news corporations there are at least regulations that prevent these kind of faux news (no pun intended). Some may say that if the majority of the people are writing about it, it must be true, but then groups of people can coordinate to write something that is completely untrue or biased,l effectively making the story the majority; couple this with something that appeals to people's emotions (i.e. shocking photos, touching stories, etc.) and voila, you get people believing in it. My guess is that someday some organizations such as an internet forum will attempt to orchestrate something like this and end up duping the entire world. This kind of discredit to services such as twitter will actually be necessary. It's a bit unnerving how easy it is for us to believe information fed to us given the right circumstances.

Paparazzi

Omg! This blog's background changed! Cool!

Reflecting on tegoyuri's blog, I believe paparazzi are a tough job. Even though they are actually destroying celebrity's privacy, they can't just scamp their job because we are able to get celebrity's information due to their effort.lol I know that in Hollywood, paparazzi are just rude! and outrageous manner! But what if there weren't any paparazzi? We won't be able to know any of the interesting news about talents, which I believe most of the people have seen at least once on TV or Internet sites or magazines.

Oh! One thing I was surprised today was that we discussed about "Twitter" in different class :) It was in Ibunka communication class. When I heard the word Twitter in that class, I was proud of myself that "I know Twitter"!lol Thanks to Dr. Armstrong!

The media

I have been wondering how the media influences our thought and the situations in the world, in the United States the media is manly concerned of the number of the viewers they get. As a consequence they air those new that attract the viewer`s eyes such as the news of Iraq. The media is a source of our understanding of the world and if it`s unreliable, how can we understand the world clearly? In addition to the fact, most of the news stems from the same source such as AP wire survices, therefore, it`s really difficult to get the news that viewed the world events from the different point of view. I think we have to revolutionalize the media and out use of it.

Twitter: What are you doing?

I have never taken part in twitter and also I've never participated in mixi;; because it is very hard for me to write own journal and I don't like to check my friend's one - I feel I sneak a look at someone's private, or I hardly use my cell-phone every day and I haven't done packet discount since I bought my cell-phone for the first time!!(I know it is available by PC, but it takes a lot of time.) I always use it only to send e-mail or call someone. Of course my friends are all surprised after I talk about that. Dr. Armstrong also have never taken part in Twitter or mixi. That amazed me, but he said that he is always read a lot of books, so I think he feels the things like twitter is waste of time. He loves to read some books but he doesn't like that he can't gain any knowledge, I think. Am I wrong, Dr Armstrong?

Although I've never used twitter at the individual level, I think it is very good tool to share personal life with others because you can talk with everyone every time and everywhere. It is filled with fun, I think. However, I think there are some bad points to use twitter, for instance, we become to be the people who seldom talke with our family and tha bond with them will be thinner and weaker. It is very horrible and we somehow try to pretend this.

Anyway, I won't participate in twitter forever!!

Twitter

I can't understand why Dr. Armstrong doesn't decide to take part in twitter. He doesn't seems to be too lazy to write its articles. He also doesn't seems to not good at using computer. May be he is secretive. I'm so interested in twitter because he said Paris Hilton takes part in it. I likeParis Hilton so muchi!!! I'd like to check twitter someday. But I'm not good at using computer and don't like to use it, so it would be later that I check it...

shigeaki!!

Yesterday, I saw a scandal news on the Internet about one of the members of my favorite group NEWS seen at kyabakura the other day. I don't know whether this is truth, but I think that paparazzi should give him more privacy. Even this news isn't true, if it's broad casted everyone will believe that it's telling the truth. So, I try not to believe too much on TV.

Mirage

I think that robot represents humans and goldfish represents other living creatures in the nature.

I thought the robot was in the ocean but he was just walking on the ground, so i was confused. But I believe he was in the ocean. He was looking for fresh water out of plants. Robot can't drink salt water like humans i think. He even took water out of some plant in which the gold fish was living. I thought the goldfish was gonna die. The water was necessary to not only the robot but also goldfish. I thought the short film wanted to tell us the importance of symbiosis. Because he could get water out of the plant, he could survive and because he let goldfish stay in his stomach, the gold fish could survive.

twitter and poster

I think twitter is different from other social networking service like mixi and my space. the most unique point is the way to communicate with other users. I just contribute my trivial muttering like " I want to eat sushi " or " I'm tired because I was up all night" and other user who notices my comment, replies to me. I think it is easy and plain communication style. But, I don't want to join twitter because it's troublesome for me to contribute my muttering intentionally.I think it's a waste of time to do such a it's a waste of time to do such a thing while I think it will be fun to see other muttering. I found the Japanese version and I may join it if I the Japanese version and I may join it if I feel like iｔ.




I'm surprised Dr. Armstrong told us that the poster which reminds us manner in subway stations in Tokyo is very beautiful and well-designed because I' ve never thought it's beautiful every time I see the poster. Actually, my friends were laughing about the sentence like " let's do it home" and the expressionless face drawn in the poster. Honestly, It was funny for me, too. But, I realized I was wrong after reading the articles distributed in class. In fact, the poster is more attractive than other posters because of the simple colors and composition. That's why we could notice the poster. But, I think it is difficult whether people follow the message, especially in rush hour. people tend to act egocentrically in this time because they are tired because of jam-packed train. Of course, whereas there are few old people or the handicapped, sometimes, they were there by chance. How many people could do something for them in rush hour? I have rarely seen such a person. What is the best plan to solve the problem?

To Yusaku.

Great photo, Yusaku:] It makes you realize actually how high Mt. Fuji is from this photo! Must have been a really tough challenge for you to climb Akadake. I heard some people die climbing up there during winters so I am really glad that you made it back alive! I'm curious which mountain you are going to climb next:)

twitter?

I was absent last class because of this.


From the top of Mt.Akadake(2,899m)
What a mountain... I'd say Mt.Fuji is the national symbol of Japan! But I dare say this picture is rubbish. The real one is millions times more beautiful than this picture.


I like this new dark backscreen of this blog. It's much easier to read:)

Is this week's topic of this blog "Twitter"? Well, I googled it and read some gidelines, but it looks tiresome to do for me...don't know, maybe it's fun once I started but it just doesn't attract me for now.

Friday to Sunday

I had been to the Lake Yamanaka!! this camp was so hard. we, managers couldn't sleep well because we had alot of things to do, for example, washing and preparetion of meal. It was so hard, but, when the party had started, the hard work went to complete obilion! We had a good time at night party.

social remainders

In today's class, we saw a handout titled
"Punchy posters urge Tokyoites to mind their
manners"

Let me first describe my overall impression
of this piece of paper. I think these pictures
successfully illustrate what is going on there,
that is, how embarassing their manners are, and
how they are responded to by others. These
posters are appealing in an effective and force-
ful manner to our visual perception. Conveying
a lot of things and convincing it would be even
without a word. Amazing and literally "punchy".

Next, I go on to the necessity or effectiveness
of "social remainders". Basically, I agree with
the idea. Some people may say it should be taught
at school or at home, not through social remainders.
There is, of course, something in this kind of
opinion, but given the current state of things,
just because s/he is in a teaching or "respectable"
position, it does not automatically mean that s/he
acts morally and can set an example to follow. We
know countless cases where parents and teachers
commit immorarities these days.

Things are getting a little bit complicated, but the
bottom line is, the idea of teaching respectable
manners in itself is good, but who will teach?

If social remainders are elaborated and based on the
consensus of well-mannared people, they will serve
as teachers(a received standard/roll models). To me,
it seems a more viable solution at least than we
naively expect all(or many of the) teachers and
parents to live enough morally to set an example.

Mirage

We watched the short film "Mirage" in last class. The character in the film was only robot but I think it represents us, human. Because we can't live without water. Also human is always looking for everything we want. And as scene the robot got water from a plant which was last one, human don't care about others. We take action without attention for others and make much of us. After all we think only ourselves and egoistic.

Father's Day

Last Sunday was Father's Day, so I hung out with my family. First, we went bowling. I haven't played it with them for a long time, so I was so excited. We played three games that day, and all of my scores were over 100. It was really good for me because I usually get around 90. Next, we went for a dinner to a grilled restaurant near our house. We had a coupon, so could eat lots of meat with cheap prices. After we went back home, I gave chocolate to my dad (but I ate half of it..lol) and we enjoyed Wii. I could have really fun time with them.

Days

I have been very busy recently! Because I have lots of things to do..almost end of term papers including book report for IE class. And I also have part-time job for days a week..last week, I had to take complaint of customers. They were very angry with us and bawled at us even we didn't do mistake anything. I felt down so much about it. I want to quit this job..haha
Last week , wednesday, I and circle friends went for a movie "Angels and Demons".yay! It was fun for me, but one of them thought it wasn't interesting because the original book was better. There are lot of grotesque and painful scene in it, I felt bad after the movie. I want to read the book of it so much now!

Power to the people

Unbelievable......

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/06/21/intv.nasr.neda.cnn

If you pay attention, you hear "twitter" at 2:30~

Then this video came up next :



I was going to post how I thought Twitter wasn't all that appealing to me since I prefer long posts but after watching these videos I remembered the time when YouTube first got famous. I remember I was astonished thinking "wow, this is a revolution!"

Young people with the power of the internet could seriously shake things hard.
If the internet went into North Korea that country would change for sure.
I remember seeing a Democracy-Now! banner that said
"In the face of war, facts are your only weapon"

I really hope more and more people will make great use of the media. Not only twitter or facebook, but independent news and also music.
M.I.A. a Sri Lankan refugee which her lyrics are inspired by the status quo of Sri Lanka now, wrote in her song "20 Dollar" :
"I put people on the map who never seen a map."


.........And what are we doing?

Mirage

The short piece of movie seemed to be thought-provoking, but
I couldn't understand well what it was driving at. Other
pieces we watched were also a little too difficult for me,
the one whose main character was a Snoopy-like creature,
for example.

mirage

I saw the video "Mirage" last Tuesday. I felt sad to watch this video because the robot was the image of human in the future. People can't live without water as well as the robot. Also, people can't live without other creatures. When the robot robbed the fish of water, the robot seemed very sad. After that, he put the fish into his body. He had a kind mind as well as people. We have to think of the environment in the future.

Twitter, mixi

Jme, thanks for answering to my question! Tell me if you signed up for Twitter! I think its a great idea if we use Twitter in some kind of way for class like one of the assignments. Maybe we could make community like mixi and chat there.lol I like how you describe twitter as "mini mixi".

I sometimes think that those networking service site are scary. Because you can meet people who you can't see their face and talk with them, and how can you find out that they are telling the truth to you or maybe lying? I always have a fear to open my personal information to those kind of networking services. So in mixi, I open my diaries and photos to people who are my-mixi and if there's someone who I don't know applied for my-mixi to me I will definitely refuse them. I guess to protect our personal information, we have to be aware about the negative side of media.