Posted on May 5, 2008 at 11:40 am. I'm talking about personal

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Got my first article published in JapaneseAlthough I don’t know one word of Japanese, I did get an article published in the April 9th Edition of Fuji Sankei Business-i newspaper, which is being circulated to 200,000 readers a day nationwide. This is how it happened.

At the end of last March, I received an email from Masaru Ikeda. He’s running a system integration company in Tokyo and writes a weekly column about Internet innovations for the Sankei Newspaper. Masaru mailed me that he’d love to come to the Next Web Conference - which my partners from The Next Web Blog organized - but he had to stay in Tokyo for “business reasons”. Therefore, he asked me to write a column that he would translate in Japanese. And so it happened. It wrote the story, Masaru translated it, and he was so kind to sent me some copies.

But that’s not the end of it. Our overseas journalistic adventure ended with a grand finale in San Fransisco last week, where we met during Web 2.0 Expo. At moments like these, I take every word from McLuhan’s Global Village for granted.

Meeting Masary Ikeda at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco



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  1. Edial | May 5th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Wow, that is awesome! Can we read the English version of the column somewhere? :)

  2. Ernst-Jan Pfauth | May 5th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    great idea Edial, I’ll search my sent items for that!

  3. Mike Sheetal | May 5th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    Congrats Ernst-Jan … now you have really made it over here… time for that trip you were talking about ;)

  4. Masaru IKEDA | May 11th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Hi, Ernst-Jan, how’re you doing?

    I’d better turn the strobe on, because it was againt the light when we asked
    someone to take this picture.

    My weekly columns for the newspaper was ended at the end of April
    because of the editorial’s policy change, and now I’m preparing to write and
    publish a book featuring Web 2.0 entirely. See you very soon somewhere.

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