Archive | March, 2011

Who is in #quakebook – take a peek

27 Mar

NB this is not formatted folks, just names and stuff so you can see. Yes, I know Names and Title are out of alphabetical order. There is a reason. Carry on.

Names – Yoshiko Ikeda, West Tokyo
Alive – Steve Nagata, Tokyo
Another – Masumi Nabekawa Abiko, Chiba
Beautiful – Christopher Maurer, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday – Jonas Neergaard-Nielson, Tokyo
Bravery – Yoshie Sherriff, Abiko, Chiba
Cakes – Arun Vemuri, Tokyo
Care – Yuki Watanabe, Tokyo
Ceiling-light – Brian Wood, Tokyo
Ceremonies – Wesley Cheek, Kyoto
Changed – Florian, Osaka
Close – Debora K. Ohnishi, Utsunomiya, Tochigi
Contrast – Vadim Zendejas, Vadim Zendejas
Conversation – Michael Gakuran, Nagoya
Cushions – Shaun Hickox, Tokyo
Dark – Andy Heather, Kyoto
Debris – Greg Harbin, Wakabayashi, Sendai
Decisions – Ted Taylor, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Determination – Andy Sharp, Yokohama
Disappeared – Brighid Rader, Kentuky, USA
Distance – Brent Stirling, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Encouragement – Grandfather Hibiki, Sendai
Engage – Tokyo Twilighter, Tokyo
Escape – James Hou, Koriyama, Fukushima
Evacuated – Takamori Hayao, Osaka
Exactly – Mark Rende, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
Expectations – Miho Nishihiro, Abiko, Chiba
Experience – Kosuke Ishihara, Abiko, Chiba
Facebook – Joel David Neff, Takanezawa, Tochigi
Faculty – Rodney Van Meter, Yokohama
Forget – Michiko Segawa, Chiba
Forward – Maxamillian John, London
Ganbaro – Lowlypoetic, Kyoto
Gesture – N. Cobayne, Shizuoka
Goal – Naomi, Canada
God – John Janzen, Japan
Graduation – May Arai, Kamakura
Harmony – Tom Hope, Tokyo
Heart – Victoria, Tokyo
Help – Yui and Shizue Nonaka, Abiko, Chiba
Home – Kimberly Tierney, Tokyo
Illusion – Hiromi Davis, Tosashimizu, Kochi
Leaving – Sandra Barron, Los Angeles
Lingering – Soso Bureau staff, Soma and Futaba cities
Lost – Matthew Holmes, Shimokitazawa
Loving – Shehan Raban, Kohoku, Chiba
Lucky – Stephen Lyth, Tokyo
Muenbotoke – Jake Adelstein, Tokyo
Morals – Yuichiro Ito, Kesenuma, Miyagi
Mountain – Edan Corkill, Zushi, Kanagawa
Neighbors – Yumiko Takemoto, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki
Normal – Laurent Fintoni, Koenji, Tokyo
OK – Naotoshi Nabekawa, Abiko, Chiba
Options – Jason Morgan, Kawasaki
Overwhelmed – Corey Wallace, Aukland, New Zealand
Pajamas – Mark Warschauer, Tokyo
Photographs – Mari Aquarian, Concord, New Hampshire, USA
Positive – Arthur Davis, Tosahimizu, Kochi
Precious – Keiko Fujii, Abiko, Chiba
Prepared – Annamarie Sasagawa, Shinjuku Sasagawa
Radioactive – Ian Martin, Tokyo
Really? – Chikae Singleton, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Rebuilding – Mr Salaryman, Tokyo
Recovery – Yoko Kobayashi, Abiko, Chiba
Relief – Don Myles, Falkirk, Scotland
Remoteness – Sybil Murray, United Kingdom
Same – Baye McNeil, Yokohama
Scenarios – Miles Woodroffe, Tokyo
Shaken – James Simpson, Kawasaki
Signs – Terrie Matsuura, Shizuoka
Strength – Ai Hinton, Kashiwa
Strong – Robert Ouwehand, Seoul, South Korea
Television – Richard Smart, Tokyo
Together – Jesse Johnson, Abiko, Chiba
Tremors – Iain Hair, Tokyo
Trousers – Joseph Tame, Tokyo
Underground – Bigger in Japan, Kamakura
Underneath – Yuko Kato, Tokyo
Understanding – Mari Kurisato, Denver, Colorado, USA
Values – Kaoru Raban, Kohoku, Chiba
Vertical – Philip Brasor, Tokyo
Voices – Jessica Tomoko Perez, The Bronx, New York
Waiting – Kevin Wood, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Want – Dan Castellano, Tokyo
Window – William Gibson, Vancouver, BC
Test – Yushi Tabe, Tokyo

More love from the Blogsphere

27 Mar

A supporter of ours on Twitter, @julia_10mh, has written a lovely piece about Quakebook and the aftermath of the earthquake. Please follow the link below to read the entire text of the piece she posted on her blog.

Another Twitter supporter, @goodandbadjapan, also wrote a nice piece on his blog about us. To read it, follow the link below:

Thank you all!

Yoko Ono tweets about QuakeBook

27 Mar

Volunteer to help QuakeBook

26 Mar

We now have a volunteer form on the site. Please help the project succeed by helping out with your skills, contacts – anything!

QuakeBook on Facebook

26 Mar

Don’t forget to come and “Like” our QuakeBook Facebook page!

Tweeted by Twitter!

26 Mar

QuakeBook has been tweeted by Twitter

William Gibson, science fiction legend, contributes to Quakebook

26 Mar


One of the authors we are very proud to present is science fiction giant William Gibson, who wrote an original piece JUST FOR US!

Media Coverage, Part 2

26 Mar

A piece by Jared Keller at The Atlantic. Buzz in the blogsphere for Quakebook is getting off to a very prestigious start.

Media coverage, Part 1

26 Mar

Some of the first media coverage for Quakebook, by the good folks at Publishing Perspectives:

http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/03/quakebook-twitter-sourced-japan-charity-book-246-self-pubbed-in-one-week/

Grunts on the #quakebook project

26 Mar

Did I forget you, misspell you or put you in the wrong bit? Leave a comment and I’ll fix it for the book!
Copy Editors
Lindsey Annison
Sandra Barron
Jesse Johnson
Joanne Greenway
Dan Ryan
Owen Schaefer
Jenny Silver
Vania Sofiandi
Aimee Weinstein
Translators
Hiromi Davis
Yoshiko Ikeda
Yuko Kato
Tomomi McElwee
M. Rosewood
Andy Sharp
Yoshie Sherriff
Fernando Ramos
@se7elndn
Designers/Illustrators
Mari Kurisato
Edward Harrison
Advisors
Kevin Carroll
Rick Martin