Category: New media

StumbleUpon and Post-Dojo Thoughts

March 3, 2007

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Christopher S Penn

First things first. StumbleUpon amazes me. I left the office today around 4 PM and Stumbled the blog. In the 6 hours that have elapsed, StumbleUpon has added nearly 150 new visitors to my little blog, and 99.3% of those visitors are new. It’s amazing how powerful StumbleUpon is – it’s truly a Digg-killer in…
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Noren: Your Reputation on a Sheet of Cloth

March 2, 2007

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Christopher S Penn

{border=”0″ align=”right”} I was reading in Essence of Ninjutsu by Headmaster Masaaki Hatsumi about a period of time in Japan called the Sengoku Jidai – the Warring States period – when a translation caught my eye. Hatsumi sensei had translated noren as goodwill. This simple translation opened up a fascinating exploration of how traditional Japanese…
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