We are very happy to announce the summer 2011 issue of MANOA: Living Spirit: Literature & Resurgence in Okinawa. A companion volume to Voices from Okinawa (published in 2009), Living Spirit is a collection of compelling prose and poetry representative of the Okinawan renaissance that began in the 1960s. Katsunori Yamazato, who worked with us … Continue reading
It's been in the works for about two months, and we hope you agree with us that it was worth the wait. This is the first app version in a long time where we're actually adding features, previously we've been 100% focused on improving stability, error messages, and help. While these efforts will continue indefinitely, … Continue reading
Let's do it! I've been getting lots of emails from black Okinawans who have come across my blog and from so many walks of life. I am so loving this. And I don't know what to do with all these contacts yet. I'm wondering how we can harness all this interest. My dream would be … Continue reading
Stats view coming to a future version of the app. Yay! Version 2.7.2 of the WordPress for iOS app just became available on the App Store. It fixes a number of lingering crashes and bugs. All in all 28 crash/bug reports were closed in this release: Fixed crash when the password had a space, on … Continue reading
I just learned of this event. A former military Airman killed his Okinawan wife by beating her to death in Fairview Park, Ohio. I cannot tell you how sick this story makes me. Domestic violence, especially in the military, is still not adequately addressed. I don't know how to begin this post because the … Continue reading
As Scott mentioned in his How is WordPress.com Made? post, at Automattic we work from all over the world, and we use internal blogs for socializing and exchanging non-work ideas in addition to making WordPress.com and our other products more awesome. One of the things we're really concerned about is staying healthy – we even have … Continue reading
So much of my work focuses on how Okinawa is circulated, race, and "security imaginaries." I came across this video on youtube a few months ago. It's an old U.S. Army PR video about Okinawa–positioning it geopolitically as the "keystone of the Pacific." In many ways, much of this discourse is sedimented in the … Continue reading
With the launch of Apple's iPad we have seen the future of computing and it is touch. Nothing matches the visceral feel of navigating your digital world with your hands. The past four months we've been working closely with Onswipe to bring your iPad visitors our vision of what a blog can look like re-imagined for a … Continue reading
Some of you readers may have already heard the news about U.S. Diplomat Kevin Maher's racist remarks about Okinawans to a group of students at the State Department. Maher was head of the Japanese Affairs Office and Former Consul General in Okinawa which makes his comments even more a tragedy for Okinawans and the US. … Continue reading
No one really gets the distinction between the two things called WordPress at first, the dot-com and the dot-org. On dot-com in just a few clicks you're set up on a web-scale centralized platform that constantly gets new upgrades and features. And you never have to worry about it because it’s completely hassle-free and completely … Continue reading
