Taking part in Peeta Planet Social Travel TV Series

I first met Peyman and Mohamed at TEDxTokyo 2011 – they’d sent us a mail out of the blue asking if they could attend. Whilst we receive a lot of these kinds of emails (and can only grant seats to a limited number of them) there was something about the mail from these emirate brothers […]

Interview on Bunka Housou: Kunimaru Japan

I originally posted this over on josephta.me, but I’m so efficient/lazy/busy I’m reposting it as it is right here. With this month marking the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, a lot of media are focusing on stories connected to the horrendous events of that March 11th. Back in 2011 I took The […]

Shuukan Ascii article

Brief press update – I make my Japanese-print-media debut this week with an inclusion in ‘週刊アスキー’ (Weekly Ascii), a popular Japanese tech magazine. The article I feature in is a summary of  important things to have happened online in the first half of 2010 – so how I got in there I’m not quite sure… […]

BS-TBS TV interview

In mid-May 2010 I was contacted by a producer working on a programme for BS-TBS, in which they were looking at the recent rapid growth in popularity of the live video streaming service USTREAM. As well as interview the president of TV-Bank (the subsidiary of Softbank responsible for running the service in Japan), they also […]