Today I had a particular Japanese internet meme to research. The last I had heard, Nico Nico Douga was the place where Japan was sharing their videos. The absense of an English version of the site as always made me avoid it, but today I figured that I might as well clumsily fumble my way through the site. And I managed to register successfully.
Step 3. You are now at the Login/Register screen. Click the DARK ORANGE button to get to the account selection page.
4. Account selection. The bright orange boxon the left leads you through the process of signing up for a paid premium account. You probably do not want this unless you can read Japanese, in which case, you have no need for this tutorial. Instead, go with the gray box on the right for a free "common" account.
5.Register your account. I have included translations for each field on the screen shot.
6. You will see a screen that basically tells you have been sent a confirmation email. You must read the email and click the confirmation link in order to activate your account.
7. Once you've read your email and clicked the link (can't find it? check your spam folder) then you will be taken to a page similar to this:
And that's it. You are now able to see what kind of videos people are making in Japan. You might want to keep Google Translator open in another tab, as you'll be doing a lot of copying and pasting just to get around.
To be continued in Part II: Navigating Nico Nico Douga.
I'm playing around with my options on the site layot. You'll notice the new non-functioning navigation block in the new header. I'll get that working eventually. In the meantime, use the old menu bar below the header.
So apparently, Tricia Wang wrote this review on Know Your Meme back in April and she had some seriously nice things to say about not just the visible Internet Scientists, but me too. And I didn't even know about it until now. Thanks Tricia! You're awesome!
The following is an excerpt from Andrew Baron's blog.
As we set off today on a new search for talent to anchor Rocketboom [see details here] we decided to take the opportunity to push ahead with the growth of our show, by searching for not just one anchor, but two. Now that we have our Los Angeles studio set up, we hope to soon find two stellar people from anywhere in the world, willing to help take Rocketboom to new heights. In 2004, when I was just about ready to launch Rocketboom, there was no such thing as YouTube and so I went to Craigslist to search for talent. There I found Amanda and the show turned out to be great. When Amanda was ready to move on, we returned to Craigslist, and found Joanne. Joanne has been incredible on Rocketboom, everything she did was masterful. So today, it only seems natural to return to Craigslist, where we have placed two ads, one in New York City, and one in Los Angeles. Of course we can not deny the chances that the undiscovered talent we seek is on YouTube so we have utilized our YT account to search there as well. But what about Ellie Rountree? Everyone here at Rocketboom and a rapidly growing stable of fans see Ellie as a natural to assume the anchor role at the RB desk, but her proficiencies and interests have taken her down a different path. Ellie is working her magic by hosting *and* producing the Rocketboom Tech show (created in collaboration with Intel.) Additionally, she’s continuing her work as one of the creators and hosts of our Know Your Meme show, which has become, by almost all measures, as popular at Rocketboom. So what about Caitlin Hill? Personally, I believe that Caitlin is perfect for Rocketboom and so when we had the chance to work with her, we jumped right in. If you saw any of the videos she was in on Rocketboom recently, I think you will agree, she is a natural talent. Both Caitlin and I both really want her on Rocketboom but, unfortunately, we have not been able to come to terms with her company, Hitviews. We went out of our way to try to work something out, even going as far as taking the show down for an entire week recently (an unprecedented move) and have gone without our staple news programming for the last two weeks in hopes of working out a deal. Maybe we will still find a way to make it happen in the future but for now, we must keep moving. In the meantime, I dont know about you as a viewer, but not having a strong daily news program to watch is just the worst feeling for me. While our other shows are doing well for themselves, our daily news is our staple, the foundational center of our Rocketboom universe. I hope our search will expedite finding the right people to anchor Rocketboom, quickly! We, of course, considered a contest, we considered crowdsourcing the job of finding talent over to our audience, but never believed that either of these would be the way we should go. A contest, of course, would lead to more popularity, buzz and excitement, but we don’t think this should be a competition with winners and losers. That being said, we’ll be taking note of all feedback and listening to our audience closely. And in an effort to maybe be of use to everyone else in this new rising tide of online media, we have encouraged people to submit their application publicly, in case anyone at all might also find some wonderful talent for their own projects. See http://talentsearch.rocketboom.com
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 4:40PM ;)
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