http://www.ejovi.net Sun, 11 May 2008 16:46:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've organized a national free concert tour in partnership with Don Quijote and Columbia Music Entertainment to promote OtoRevo artist. Seven (7) locations all around the country. If you have time and are in Japan please join us. Meet some Columbia Music artist... I'll be driving around the country during golden ... http://www.ejovi.net/2008/04/30/golden-week-concert-tour/ Two minutes of video footage of me and my brothers new son taken on a recent trip back home. http://www.ejovi.net/2008/04/08/my-brothers-baby/ UPDATE: Creative Commons blogs about Good Crew Release. OtoRevo has created a lot of first. OtoRevo and Columbia Music Entertainment were the first label to sign a major artist (Good Crew) exclusively from user voting. Now we have done another first, we are the first major label to release tracks from ... http://www.ejovi.net/2008/03/24/major-label-creative-commons-release/ Today I read a article in the NY Times about slum tours. You can read the article here (requires NY Times account). In the end a tourist talks about how suprised he was at how friendly people were. I recently made a trip to the Philippines. During the trip I visited ... http://www.ejovi.net/2008/03/12/slum-loving/ I'm alive...in the past two months a lot has been going on, as I start to slow down I will blog more. In the meantime here are two Good Crew videos. Yes. Amazon Japan ships to the USA :-) If you want to buy... http://www.ejovi.net/2008/03/01/good-crew-and-otorevo-videos/ Running OtoRevo has been an interesting experience. We signed our first artist Good Crew to Columbia Music. Recent focus has been on music production, album design as well as two other OtoRevo artist signed Columbia Music, which we haven't publicly announced yet. In the process I've learned more about the traditional ... http://www.ejovi.net/2008/02/03/history-has-most-of-the-answers/ The OtoRevo team has created history last week. For the first time a music label has created a online contest in which the winner gets a record deal. Not a interview, not a meeting, not a chance to be heard. But a record deal. More importantly the judges were music ... http://www.ejovi.net/2007/12/09/creating-a-business-people-care-about/ These past few months in Tokyo have been interesting to say the least. To start I've had to deal with a number of interesting challenges that are unique to starting a company in a foreign country. 1) Language: My business Japanese is horrible. My conversational Japanese isn't all that bad, but ... http://www.ejovi.net/2007/11/24/interesting-startup-challenges/ Recently I showed a OtoRevo artist to two producers in Columbia Music and asked for their opinion. One producer said "uhm, doesn't seem like anything really special." The second producer had the exact opposite opinion. I will value the second producers opinion much more because the second producer is successful. Being ... http://www.ejovi.net/2007/11/12/the-process-of-success/ October 29th Jun-ichiro "Itojun" Hagino passed away. Itojun was an amazing hacker. I first met him in 1999 in Tokyo when I was working on OpenBSD. I asked "who do I need to meet in Japan" and everyone said, Itojun is the smartest person there. When I visited Japan he welcomed ... http://www.ejovi.net/2007/11/08/dedication-to-itojun/