Profile
Name: Christian Buysse
Occupation: Student of Japanology
Date of birth: 13 – 11 – 1984
Interests: Books, sport, Japan (especially history and religion), linguistics.
Ambition: To acquire the Japanese language, extensive knowledge concerning Japanese culture, daily life and history. I’m aiming to later conduct research of my own concerning Japanese religion, in Japan preferably. Also, I have developed an interest in linguistics, especially Ancient Japanese and the English language itself.
Hi Christian,
I’m a staff member at Nipponster.com – The Japan-Enthusiast’s Search Engine and I’m contacting you because we’re interested in helping Japan-related websites like yours (as part of our mission to organize and enhance ALL the Japan-related content available online – thereby making the web a better place for Japan-enthusiasts
)
We’d like to work with you to help promote and enhance your site. So please email us and talk to us about it and we will get back to you if you email us.
That said,
We have tools and are developing tools to help bloggers like you. All are free of charge. We know that it is the bloggers, writing about their experiences and all things Japanese, that really are the most helpful to others who want to know about Japan. So we asked ourselves, ”What do bloggers need more than anything else to enhance their blogs?” And we came up with two answers: Content and Connections.
Our search engine is already a good place to look for content. If you haven’t tried it yet take it for a spin. It gives Japan-related results! And it learns from the search community so that it can give better and better results. It is a “social search engine” so as users increase it will give you better and better search results.
But we are going to do even more for Japan bloggers. We are currently building a social bookmarking website, a “Goldmine” of content related to Japan that will make it a lot easier for you to find good info for your blog (modeled after digg.com). AND, we are working on a social-network website (Nipponster Insiders) that will help you connect, communicate and collaborate with other Japan bloggers and webmasters (a LinkedIn for Japan bloggers); so that you can keep up-to-date and hip, and make better websites with less effort.
Here is what we need from you… interest! We’ve released the Nipponster search engine, BUT we are still working on “Insiders” and “Goldmine.” We need feedback and moral support. We are tired webmasters here. There are just three of us and if we don’t get some love (and fan mail please
) we are gonna burn out.
So please please let us know what you think, and feel free to talk to us about it and any other ideas you may have.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon,
Tori
p.s. Nipponster.com is run by a group of current and former foreign exchange and international students from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. You can learn more about our project if you snoop around the site (or ask us).