Our Man made it back in one piece from the 2009 Tokyo bloggers' ball held in that hotbed of youthful abandon, Shibuya, though with a slightly sore head. Our Man had a chance to listen to some learned political gossip and even picked up some technical jargon (he learnt that a Twitter is not the same as a twitcher). How would you explain the night if you had to give a powerpoint demonstration? Why, like this:
- Some real smart cookies were there. You could have had a boat race up the Edogawa with the number of Ivy League-Oxbridge grads in the room.
- You could fit the great and the good (and the ugly) of the Japan English blogging world in one pub. And what a pub it was - the Pink Cow. Check it out here.
- Our Man had a sore neck (literally) from looking up to (literally) some of the folk there. If a boat race wasn't on, we could have made quite a formidable basketball team. Tokyo bloggers are tall folk (literally).
- Our Man didn't get to talk to everyone there, but he did bump into a couple of Economist journos, a news editor who blogs about cats, and the Malaysian foreign minister (Our Man thinks, his memory is getting a bit foggy).
- Our Man had great pleasure in buying young master Tobias Harris a bottle of Kirin, and had a delightful chat with Jun Okumura, and would have bought him a glass of wine, had he needed any more of the truth serum.
Many thanks to Ken of Trans-Pacific Radio for pulling it all together. The highlight for Our Man? He got a hug off Traci, proprietoress extraordinariness of the Pink Cow.
4 comments:
Glad you made it out. I, too, was surprised by the height of the folks there. Must be something in delivery food.
Glad you had a good time and had a chance to meet and talk with the best and brightest. We've had such a good response that we're already thinking about what to do next time.
Good stuff, count Our Man in. Will do a couple of NHK exercise routines to prepare before the next one.
was globaltalk21 there?
how many were there in total?
Yep. Globaltalk is Jun Okumura, doc. Around 40 or 50 folk. Not all were bloggers, methinks, but interested parties for sure.
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