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Meet Stephen, my.8asians.com’s Member of the Day!

Did you guys know 8Asians has a social network at my.8asians.com?  We’ve had a community site for a while, but we’re going to be emphasizing the community site over the next couple of weeks as well. And what better way … Continue reading

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Popular Posts in the Past 15 Days

Comedian Joe Wong Debuts Nationally on Letterman – He looks and sounds like William Hung. So are we laughing with him, or are we laughing at him? Betty Brown: “Really, Just Change Your Name” – “… calling Betty Brown racist … Continue reading

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8Asians Now Has a Tumblelog!

A couple of astute readers might have noticed the Thursday 8Asians.com Photo Zen and Video Zen posts going on for a couple of weeks; no dialogue, no witty opinions, no angry, controversial diatribes — just linking a photo or a … Continue reading

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Popular Posts in the Past 15 Days

Say My Name: Changing my Adoptive Name – “Sitting down in a chair the other day, a funny thing happened: I turned a year older. It got me thinking about my name. Six months earlier I’d handed over some papers … Continue reading

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“TOKYO!” (the movie) opens in selected cities 3/20/2009 – Amazingly, the movie doesn’t involve school girls or tentacle rape. Dartmouth College Appoints First Asian American President of Ivy League University – All well and good until some smart-ass white kid … Continue reading

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Popular Posts from 8Asians in the Past 30 Days

Model Minorities in Reality TV: The Amazing Race’s Tammy & Victor Jih: The token Asian team on The Amazing Race this season are attractive sibling lawyers, and you’re sitting at home watching them eating a bag of potato chips. Random … Continue reading

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8Asians.com’s Open Comment Thread #1

So in the spirit of trying something new, we’re going to do something that a lot of other blogs do and have an open comments thread; that means that so long as you abide by the comments policy of not … Continue reading

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Are Asian American Bloggers the New Journalism Frontier? (No.)

If you’re a regular reader of the Asian-American blogs, surely you have read Evelina Giang’s article on Asian-American Bloggers for UCLA’s Pacific Ties magazine. It’s got the typical round-up of blogs focusing on Asian American issues: Angry Asian Man, Disgrasian, … Continue reading

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When Life Hands You Lemons, Redesign the Website

So if you are visiting the website and you’re not using an RSS Feed Reader, you may have noticed some, uhm, subtle differences to the 8Asians. Like the fact that we completely redesigned the website. Truth is, we didn’t expect … Continue reading

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Sharing a Meal at Ponzu: An 8Asians Bloggers Meetup

8asian writers, originally uploaded by simbuyo. On a cool, Thursday evening, Ernie and I drove up from Palo Alto to San Francisco. We met up with some of the other writers (Bo, Efren, Jen, John, and Genghis) for dinner at … Continue reading

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LapPOP! APA Bloggers IRL. OMG.

Something like 10 years ago my adventure in blogging started. I blame Ernie mostly and other regular writers in the APA linkrings (remember those?) who, at the time, encouraged my willingness to rant about things stupid, have occasional anthropomorphic conversations … Continue reading

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“What [Asian Media] … Would Be Appropriate for a 7-year old Girl?”

Every so often we get e-mails. Here’s one from Julie, and while I don’t necessarily have a wealth of information on appropriate inspirational materials, maybe some 8Asian readers can help out: Can you recommend any books, magazines, or websites spotlighting … Continue reading

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