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Gil Asakawa’s Overview of the BANANA Blogger Roundtable

Gil Asakawa of Nikkei View as well as visualizasian.com has a great report about BANANA, the Asian American blogger round-up at USC this weekend, and there’s not really much I can disagree with him with. Was this first-ever roundtable of Asian-Asian content publishers from around the country a little rough around the edges? Sure. But [...]

Yahoo! Games Writer Freaks Out Over Nintendo DS Dating Simulations

A writer at Yahoo! Games recently talked about an anime style Nintendo DS game, Love Plus, a “dating simulation” where you can court several girls virtually, and suggests that “dating” video game characters go too far in the world of human/video game character interaction. Actually, uhm, no.  Suggested penetration with said characters using a Nintendo [...]

(Mostly Asian) High School Student Newspaper Runs Supremacist Ad

A bunch of white white supremacists pulled a fast one on the Student Newspaper staff of Lowell High School in San Francisco, pulling a bait-and-switch and redirecting a web address left in an ad to an a “campaign to inform, awaken and radicalize our White American youth.” Except they may want to work a bit [...]

Wealthy Chinese Sending More Kids to U.S. Military Schools

Let’s face it: at least once in your childhood you were threatened by your parents that they would take you away to military school, away from soft western luxuries like a Nintendo or drinks with High Fructose Corn Syrup to a tough regimen of marching and getting hazed by kids four years older than you. [...]

Asian Bloggers to Speak at USC for BANANA

Why yes, this would be fellow 8Asians bloggers Joz and Jee, and here they are in a video promotion with Steve Nguyen to promote BANANA, the FIRST-EVER gathering and round-table discussion/panel of Asian American bloggers at the USC campus on November 21st. I’d go into more detail, but event creator Lac Su explains it all [...]