08 Nov 06 Television Dramas based on blogs in Japan and Japanese HR people reading blogs
Earlier this year, Ivan invited me to speak with him at a publishing related event. The talk was mainly for younger writers, encouraging them to use social web tools like blog etc. to get noticed. I mentioned some examples of writers in China getting published after they became popular online via their blogs. There was even a service launched in China to facilitate blog to book publishing.
Today we got a message from our Japan spy Mousan. Mousan wrote about an emerging trend in Japan where blogs are being made in to TV drama. There is a new drama series based on a blog by an intern doctor writing about her life. (The linked articles are in Japanese)
Mousan adds
The most popular blog that became a drama is
http://yugure.ameblo.jp/
The writer is a husband and he writes about his daily life with his sassy wife.
(It’s kind like “My sassy girlfriend” from Korea)
It was published as novel, comics, drama and will be even a movie.Both blogs are from the same blogging provider “Ameblo” which encourage the bloggers to publish their blog as a book.
Mousan also mentioned that now Japanese human resource people search for job applicant’s blogs and forum posts made by them
Be careful about what you write in your blog!
http://news.livedoor.com/webapp/journal/cid__2649462/detailThere are some cases where employment offers were canceled due to imprudent topic in the candidates’ blogs or BBS.
This is because HR is checking their candidates’ blog.
If you write about any confidential topic that you heard at the interview on your blog, it means you’re violating business rules.
So you must think carefully when you blog, and it’s safer to delete topics that you think are “imprudent” for job hunting.
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Interesting. The latest “State of the Blogosphere” report by Technorati shows that Japanese language blogs rank second after English language (if I remember correctly). With blogs being made into drama serials, I’m sure the number of Japanese language blogs will only go up.