Blog format
Originality
- Depending on audience.
- Probably too well-known topics: geisha, kimono, ukiyo-e only use these with the addition of something new / current
- Relatively unknown concept + news value
- Overblogged: fugu, chindōgu, Harajuku, Lolita ...
- Browse the archive
Your audience
- Who is your audience? Peers, Japanese Studies community, the general public (vulgarizing) ... decide for yourself, but be consistent
- You don't have to address the audience directly
- As known by most of you
- Did you know ...
- Most of us have already heard of
References
- Preferably in the form of hyperlinks in the text
- Not necessary at the bottom, unlike (encyclopedic) article
- Use zotero and link to it from your blog
White space
- Important for readability
- Avoid text blobs
- Don't exaggerate
Cut & paste
Catchy titles
A good title makes your blog stand out, catches the eye
- Gosurori: the Japanese gothic?
- Visual Kei vs. Visibly Gay
- Behind the scenes / under the skirts: Elegant Gothic Lolita
Correct transcription
- Shogi, Bosozoku, Tokaido
- Italicize transcription / foreign words
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- Gals *
- Manga not, * mangaka * yes
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Japan is not a person
- Japan tries ...
- The Japanese say that ...
- Related: where we ..., they do ...
Topic
- Not too broad. No sociological phenomena such as: suicide in Japan, the Japanese woman, etc.
Make your blog "skimmable"
Most visitors only scroll about 50-60% of a blog post (if you're lucky). If you want people to actually read your blog post, make it dead simple to walk through.
- Use headings and subheadings
- Break your text into paragraphs
- Use lists
- Lists create white space
- Lists pull the reader's eyes down and make them stop there for a moment
- Lists make scanning easy
- Lists give the impression of getting a lot of information with little reading
- Add emphasis (in moderation)
- bold
- italics
- quote (blockquote)
Use images
A blog without images is almost as bad as one without links.
- choose relevant images that closely match your subject
- pay attention to copyright
- give your images an enlightening caption
* Sonota *
- No * kanji * in your title - url will not be readable
- Too many pure text blogs - blog is an internet format, links are part of that
- Onsens and Matsuris do not exist
- Do not explain two things in on blog - not Akihabara ánd otaku
- Try to add a teaser to your blog: catchy title, video, link
Workflow - Japanology Lab
- Add Content - "Bericht" (Article)
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! [] (Img / IJCS20-lab02.png) - Select Title & OPO
! [] (Img / IJCS20-lab03.png) - At least one image
- WYSIWYG
- MSWord button
- Styles
- structural elements
Examples
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/bloggen-japan-gegroeid-uit-nikki-bungaku van bloggen naar traditioneel Japan
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/duits-expressionisme-vs-anim%C3%A9 van een bron naar Duits expressionisme naar anime
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/get-partea-started theeceremonie, nu
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/met-angst-en-beven-op-de-metro Amélie Nothomb vs Hideya Kawakita's posters
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/ukiyu-e-pretentieuze-stempels zelf ukiyo-e maken
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/jidaigeki-jedi
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/enka-pop actualisering onderwerp
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/page-madness verdiepen onderwerp
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/pining-noh naar aanleiding van gastlezing
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/geschiedenis-tekenvorm-historische-manga-0 driedelige serie
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/haiq-02-een-geschiedenis HAIQ
- http://lab.japanologie.arts.kuleuven.be/blog/note-self-go-japan-asap zelfreflectie
- https://thesixtyninestations.tumblr.com/ externe blog
- Ghost in the Shell, Western Philosophy and the Future
- Parasyte vs Pollution: The Ultimate Paradox
- One grilled manga with extra thoughts, onegaishimasu
- From Buddha to Hashirama I
- On the night of September 21, 1945, I died