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#Quakebook news
Exciting news from @quakebook that not even this morning’s heavy rain could dampen: Yes, you read it right! The bilingual print version will be available to buy in Japan from 14 June, for around ten of...
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Jishin-yoi: the feeling of earthquake drunkenness
It usually starts with a jolt. If walking or standing, I notice the ground beneath my feet start to move, or if sitting I feel it along my spine. I brace myself for what is coming, look up at the...
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Well Red magazine Issue 8
What a year it has been for Liverpool Football Club. Ditching two managers, one sometimes loved, one universally loathed. Jettisoning two feckless owners with the assistance of unlikely heroes in the...
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Imagining the future
Even in a normal year, a lot of news can happen in 10 days. Unfortunately for someone with intermittent internet connection, 2011 has been far from a normal year, so the last 10 days have seen almost...
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‘The most photographed anonymous man in the world’
I got a really lovely thank you from the #quakebook team, despite only doing something very simple to help with the publication of an interview with Our Man in Abiko in the Embassy of Japan in the...
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The Teas That Bind
My new book is available for download! Surviving earthquakes, one brew at a time. The book comprises posts written for ten minutes hate since the Great East Japan earthquake struck on 11 March 2011,...
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Reconstructing 3/11
Reconstructing 3/11 is live. But what is Reconstructing 3/11 all about, you might ask? The team that brought you #quakebook has come together to launch a new type of journalism. Nine contributors with...
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No Kindle required
Recently, I have been plugging the heck out of three great ebooks: Quakebook Reconstructing 3/11 The Teas that Bind Since the launch of my own ebook last weekend, it seems that the question that has...
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‘ebooks are democracy in action’
Creative force behind Quakebook, Reconstructing 3/11 and the Abiko Free Press, Our Man in Abiko is interviewed here about his thoughts on ebooks, publishing, crowdsourced journalism and, er… cats. All...
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Hana Walker’s Half Life 2:46: Our Man in Abiko
I consider myself lucky to know Our Man in Abiko and was proud to be part of the team he assembled to put #Quakebook together, containing stories of the Great East Japan Earthquake, before signing up...
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