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Meanwhile, in Japan…
Sometimes I wish I lived in Japan. Then I would understand the delightfully weird and wonderful ways they love to use technology there. Or maybe I don’t wish I lived there. But I wish I knew what it felt like to be immersed in it.
Have I or would I ever imagine myself dancing around in a Nico Nico Douga video clip? Not exactly. But life seems to imitate technology there and and technology imitates life. How refreshing. How unsettling.
Nico Nico Douga is old hat in internet time (1 year plus and already one of Japan’s most popular) and there are probably millions of people who think this is a completely normal way of interacting with technology and other people. I love learning languages and I love new technologies, but I’m a newbie here. Its fascinating to poke around a site I cannot read and very quickly understand how it works and what makes it so absorbing. There people are, dancing around on screen. And here I am writing on top of their dancing, or adding images and engaging in a conversation with other people doing the same. And it all happens in real time or in the past. You choose. People act out their inner rock star or anime character or whatever, and post it, and then we chat about it on the video. The conversation stays there and keeps growing until people move on to the next one.
Another useless website? Interactive graffiti? Political dialogue of the future? Who is singing for who?
Instructions on how to Register (if you don’t read kanji, like me, you can try using Google Translate as well). Too shy for virtual karaoke/chat/video? Read the recent article about Nico Nico Douga in Wired to find out what it’s all about.
Uma, uma, uma.
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Now I know what we’ll be doing at our next company retreat.