Second Thoughts

Dear bastish,

First of all, I apologize for using your comment area to reach out to you, but I didn't see an e-mail address on the blog.

Secondly, I want to tell you what you probably already know (but it's always nice to hear it from someone else): "Basthish" is an excellent, quite unique blog. In all of our searching the world for the best blogs in a variety of countries (especially in Japan), I rarely run across one in English that is as thoughtful and well-done and focused on life outside of a metropolitan area as yours. All the posts are exquisitely photographed, very well-written, well-informed, intelligent, fun, and give the reader an insight into life in Japan that isn't Tokyo or some other big city. Your range of subjects and your writing style make "Bastish" very enjoyable reading, indeed.

Anyway, suffice to say we love "Bastish" and we would like to give your work more exposure here in the United States and around the world.

My name is John Wilpers. I am the Global Blog Coordinator for GlobalPost, a new international news organization that launched on Jan. 12. We were featured in the New York Times last month. We have also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, MSNBC, MediaShift on PBS, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Online Journalism Review, and many more. In barely three months, we have had 250,000 unique visitors and 1.1 million page views. Our readers have come from every country in the world except North Korea, Chad, and Eritrea!

My job is to build a list of blogs that will appear on GlobalPost where we have approximately 65 correspondents in some 46 countries plus high-profile correspondents writing about nine major themes.

We are looking for enlightening, informative posts from bloggers writing (in English) about the country they live in or care deeply about, including Japan. We were very pleased and excited to find "Bastish."

So, I would like to extend an invitation to you to have the most recent post of your blog included on the Japan page of GlobalPost.com as part of our “Global Blogs” service.

The way it would work if you accept our invitation is that we would use your RSS full-text feed to place your most recent post on your personal page on GlobalPost.com. We would point back to your actual blog for comments and for archives, hopefully driving lots of traffic to your site. Each time you write a new post, it would replace the older one so only one post would appear on GlobalPost.com at any one time.

By appearing on Global Post’s exciting new international news website, your words, viewpoints, and pictures would gain worldwide exposure. In barely two months, we have had 250,000 unique visitors and 1.1 million page views. Our readers have come from every country in the world except North Korea, Chad, and Eritrea!

You do not need to do anything differently. We do request that you point back to us from your blog (we will send out the code for our badge if you accept). We also ask that you use our GlobalPost headlines widget, but that’s not a requirement.

You should know that we have a few guidelines that we observe here at Global Post (after reading your work,however, it's clear these rules don't really apply, but they do give you a good sense of our culture):

1) We do not publish racist, sexist, or misogynist comments (unless those comments are the subject of the post).
2) We do not publish obscene language or photos. While we recognize that obscenity can be difficult to define, we know it when we see it and we will let you know if we think you have crossed our line.
3) We do not permit plagiarism. Any work taken from another source must be attributed to that source.
4) We do not publish libelous or slanderous language.
5) We do not tolerate repeated errors of fact or misrepresentations of facts or quotes.
6) We do not publish work inciting violence.

Failure to observe these guidelines would result in the removal of your blog from GlobalPost. We would contact you, of course, to discuss the post in question.

Because we have a broad multicultural audience holding every conceivable political and religious viewpoint, we want to respect their views while also possibly challenging them. We will host controversial work. We will encourage robust debate of the hottest topics. We will not stifle discussion, only abuse of people, belief systems, and laws.

We hope these guidelines are acceptable to you.

I look forward getting your permission to put your full-text RSS feed on our site. Thank you!

Sincerely,

John Wilpers

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