ALT blogs/vlogs/books and such stuff

[THE]

Hello.

When I was a wee ALT still bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I enjoyed watching ALT vlogs. Now that I'm bitter and depressed, I've stopped trying to find new ones.

Please share any current or exceptional ALT vlogging, blogging, and etc, thank you.

[Apollo87]

psstt...over here *points at signature*

[coop52]

Pretty much the only ALT blog I've read was Gaijin Smash, back when he was on his old site. It was pretty funny.

[Apollo87]

Pretty much the only ALT blog I've read was Gaijin Smash, back when he was on his old site. It was pretty funny.

yeah man Az is a legend. He's like the godfather of JET. Reading his blog way back when was half the reason I became interested in applying to JET in the first place.

[mothy]

My blog on this site is pretty amazing.

[haitch40]

I watch a few. Not that often any more though. It got boring.

[sourdoughsushi]

Tumblr has a lot, but beware that half of them are frothing SJWs or prone to complaining about being a vegan unicorn in Japan. Other than that, they have a little community going on and it can be a good way to meet people. Just search 'jet program(me)' and enjoy.

[word]

My blog on this site is pretty amazing.

It really is. Would you mind if we promoted it as an example of ITIL's awesomeness?


Apollo, don't listen to these Debbie Downers and Negative Nancies! If your vlogs are good, people will come.

[ALTInsiderFY]

well.. um.. (drops signature and runs away)

(comes back to laugh at this)

being a vegan unicorn in Japan

(runs away again)

[Apollo87]

well.. um.. (drops signature and runs away)(comes back to laugh at this) (runs away again)

Hey man nice site! I clicked around and read some of your articles. We should do a collab/guest-post on each other's sites sometime

[Ini]

So that will take altinsiders total up to 50+ articles and yours up to 3? I can't wait for that meeting of the minds

[ALTInsiderFY]

So that will take altinsiders total up to 50+ articles and yours up to 3? I can't wait for that meeting of the minds

To be fair, his site has some other stuff, but either way, I'm willing to be anyone's number 4.

[Zolrak 22]

I'm willing to be anyone's number 4.

Always aim for the top, never settle for less.

[ALTInsiderFY]

Always aim for the top, never settle for less.

"Just don't be the butt end of the Human Centipede of life" has pretty much always been my life motto.

[x_stei]

I really like This Japanese Life. | A New England Expat in Japan. but it might not be everyone's cup of tea.

[webstaa]

There are a few, but Day-in-the-life style blogging generally sucks. However, I do like some of the ones where someone has done something ambitious, like a south to north bicycle tour (much less focus on the biking, more on the people they meet, which was cool.) Or the Hokkaido dead train line station search.

[Gizmotech]

I find most blogs to be pretty boring, because they are often complete re-tellings of the EXACT SAME thing another blogger has already written about with no new information.

Vlogs are a little better, only in that they might have an attractive/interesting personality doing something, but the generic "I have a head and look its on video" does nothing for me... give me a blog version of that instead so I can read it faster to determine it's pointless.

JET books are generally terrible. The comedic ones aren't bad for a quick read through and a laugh, but the ones that try to be serious are just pointless. It's already been written about before, you're not adding anything new, so just don't bother.

[Jiggit]

you're not adding anything new, so just don't bother.

Is this your general approach to life?

[Gizmotech]

In some ways ya actually. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel if you're not making it better/more novel.

[johnny]

In some ways ya actually. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel if you're not making it better/more novel.

I agree. How many apartment tours do we really need?

"This is my tatami room! And this is my kotatsu! Omoshiroi, ne?"