Japanese Vloggers Hold First Event
February 12, 2008 by Mike Abundo
Filed under Computers
YouTube partied in Japan a few months back, and now Japanese vloggers are throwing their own parties.
On Jan. 27, a new keyword climbed to the top of the rankings in Japan to steal first place on the blog search engine Technorati. Dougajin — literally “Video People” — was the name coined by organizers of Japan’s first video-blogging event, held one day earlier, to describe the country’s latest category of online media-maker.
Over 100 bloggers, vloggers, journalists and Web developers, armed with the latest in digital media technology, packed Club Super Deluxe in Roppongi to hear from the front-runners in Japan’s video-blogging scene.
At one point, Japanese surpassed English as the majority language of the blogosphere. I’m not surprised the Japanese have taken to the vlogosphere with the same fervor. Subtitling sites like Stormberry are full of Japanese anime; perhaps Japanese dougajin will soon reach the world through such sites.
