News, Views and Reviews by Michael Rollins in Tokyo
I noticed the new Promote and Remove buttons alongside the search results in Google’s SERPs and it gave me a bit of a fright. Some poking around revealed that these are part of the SearchWiki functions that were added by Google on November 20th. If you don’t know about this already I suggest you start here for an overview and then have a look at the official announcement. Clever, creepy, or both, I’m still not sure…

Congratulations on finding my personal blog. It's been around in various incarnations since 1997, which is before blogs were called "blogs." See if you can top that.
My name is michael, and denbushi (電武士) is the now-dorky-seeming online name I made up back when I thought (ever so presciently) that some kind of unique nickname for the interwebs might be handy. Just for the record, it IS unique (even today!) except for this jujitsu variant/dojo in Puerto Rico which co-opted it without even asking me. If I had to cage-fight them for exclusive use of "denbushi" chances are good they'd win. But I'd still do it.
These days I live in Tokyo and mostly use my real name. A few years ago I founded a design and marketing agency called netwise. We do web and internet stuff. We're pretty good at it.
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