Gil Asakawa's Nikkei View | All Posts
15451
blog,paged,paged-24,qode-quick-links-1.0,ajax_fade,page_not_loaded,,qode-title-hidden,qode-theme-ver-11.0,qode-theme-bridge,wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-5.1.1,vc_responsive
September 5, 2012

Scooter Braun, the management guru behind Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen, today announced he's signed Korean rap artist Park Jae-Sang, better-known as PSY, the dude with the huge viral video hit, "Gangnam Style" (see above). The goofy, annoying techno-dance thumper with the horsey-straddling giddyup choreography is unavoidable -- with more than 107 million views as of this writing, it's become...

September 3, 2012

Here's a column I wrote for the latest issue of JACL's Pacific Citizen newspaper, which is undergoing a crisis with the loss of both its executive editor and assistant editors. The paper is also looking for a fulltime business manager. I'm on the search committee, so if any of my readers is interested in applying, you should send me an email....

September 3, 2012

View the V3 conference told in tweets and uploaded photos posted live as it happened, in a Storify timeline: [View the story "V3 Asian American Digital Media Conference timeline" on Storify] V3 Asian American Digital Media Conference timeline V3, the Asian American Digital Media Conference, was held Aug. 25, at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, with an...

September 3, 2012

[slideshow_deploy id=4516] The V3 conference for Asian America Digital Media, which was held August 25 in Los Angeles, was a landmark event. It was the first time that Asian American media from both journalism and the blogosphere gathered together to discuss their online presence and share their knowledge and skills. The conference grew out of a similar event, the Banana conference that...

August 22, 2012

George Takei is a pleasure to watch and listen to any time. This hour-long interview on TheLip.tv's "Media Mahem" web show is especially fun because it covers a lot of ground, and Takei is funny and relaxed and open, discussing his media incarnation as a gay community icon, his work with Howard Stern, his "feud" with William Shatner, being Japanese...

August 9, 2012

I helped organize the panels and awards for the V3 Asian American Digital Media Conference, and it's going to be a hella great confab if I say so myself. Check out the speakers, performers and panelists we have lined up! Here's a V3con preview with scenes from last year's Banana2 Asian American bloggers conference, which evolved this year into V3: ...