TheJapanesePage.com has a new face! If you have been a regular visitor to TJP you know we’ve been trying to improve the site for quite some time now–over three years. We’ve tried several web design firms and spent waaay too much money (for a free site), but nothing seemed to work the way we wanted–I’m [...]
I think I blogged that I had joined Twitter a few weeks ago, but we are going to really start using it as a promotional device starting yesterday.
For the rest of the month, we will be posting special Twitter-only coupons and promos good at TheJapanShop.com. If you are interested, please follow us!
I was looking at the stats for the download section and was amazed to see how many people have downloaded files.
The average file rating is 4.042 out of 5 stars
There are 47 files in the database
There has been a total of 57,555 downloads
The newest file is Japanese Beginner Phrases Podcast 9
The highest rated file is [...]
I’ve been working with Brian Franklin for the past few weeks on creating an article for TheJapanesePage.com and listing his new CD at TheJapanShop.com.
The 尺八 shakuhachi is a Japanese bamboo flute often heard at festivals and recently on TV and film–The Last Samurai, for example.
His article finally went live a few minutes ago here. And [...]
There is a performance issue. This means, the site is running a heavy load all too often. It is the same server as before but with different software and databases.
We think it has something to do with the new forum. The techs will work on optimizing the forum database and we’ll see…
Other [...]
I’m sitting here biding my time and biting my nails waiting for the two developers to fill me in what’s happening. They are working hard at backing up, converting, and then restoring user data, blog data, group data, and forum data. This is a huge and complicated job, but it looks like it [...]
I haven’t posted much here, because… we are upgrading TJP (again).
Back in January (of 2008) we completed an ‘upgrade’ of The Japanese Page. We are working hard on doing another upgrade now.
Some people have asked why I would want to essentially make a TJP 3.0 so soon after TJP 2.0. The January update [...]
I found a GREAT deal at iTunes. I’m not a big fan of iTunes: it seems buggy at times, it is VERY sluggish, and Apple requires it for the iPhone (I don’t like being limited like that even though I understand why)
But if you are a Sinatra fan (who isn’t?), you can’t pass up this [...]
The one and only Prof. Breen chimed in yesterday (thank you!) about the strange RSS feed at TJP. Right now the front RSS button only feeds blogs and group posts. This isn’t very useful and Phreadom (our super admin) quickly installed a RSS feed for the forums.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work with many feed [...]
There is a new online Japanese music store on the horizon. It’s called HearJapan and has a nifty torii/music note logo (see left). But that’s not all; it also has music I hear.
It’s a bit exclusive and very beta right now, but I’ve been given a coupon code for people to take a [...]
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