Japan’s No.1 blogger declared to stop her blog

Famous actress Chinatsu Wakatsuki, age 23, whose weblog boasts over 80 million page views per month, announced an end of her blog yesterday.

Last month she once implied about her blog’s end and caused a lot of reactions from her readers and media, which ended up to her apology for confusion, but it became real this time. Real reasons to retirement are not actually disclosed on her last post. She wrote it is not her retirement from show business, but only stops blogging “to do something else”.

COMMUNICATIONS 2.0

OK, so if ‘Web 2.0’ is an attitude towards to the web, underpinned by the provision of services that empower customers to do their own thing, then let’s take a look at why this is useful for us as communicators. To do this we’ll establish the key “2.0-ish” principles that we need to consider, and discuss each one in detail. They are:

• Content is king (again!)
• The web site as a communications service
• Beta is beautiful
• Participation is mandatory
• Technology is meaningless
• (If content is king, then) Open source is queen

University homepage from Web standard and usability perspectives

Univerisities websites are redesigned to produce better marketing performance. That is a a good news for Web Standard and Usability experience. The homepage is the first impression of the entire protal. Therefore, the redesigning of the homepage is among the top priority of site redesigning. This article lists some significant web standards, usability and marketing efforts about the homepage of some top-tier universities in the world and Asian – Pacific regions.