Friday 7 December 2007

Interesting Japanese Blogging Phenomenon

Because of the Japanese culture and the use the mobile phone as an Internet browsing platform, the Japanese blogging behaviour is quite different from the American one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/05/AR2007120502751.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter

A Japanese robot playing the violin

As a musician, this was very interesting for me to see.  I wonder if they could program the robot to play with dynamics and work together with an accompanist:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/06/robot