Japan: Boing Boing Live video discussion with Matt Alt in Tokyo, 7pm ET/4pm PT/8am Japan time

Xeni Jardin 3:20 pm Mon Mar 21, 2011

At 7pm ET/4pm PT/8am Japan time today (that's at the top of the coming hour), BoingBoing's tech guru Dean Putney and I will log into a live video discussion with Tokyo-based author and translator Matt Alt (Twitter: @matt_ALT) in Japan.

[ Video link for Boing Boing Live ]

We'll be talking with Matt about the March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan–and more specifically, how things are going for folks in Tokyo, what perceptions of foreign media coverage are like, and how rescue and recovery efforts are going.

This won't just be a conversation we have with each other. We're doing this through Livestream, a system that allows people watching the video to comment along in a chat room, and on Twitter. Dean will be serving as our live, on-air proudcer, taking questions from those feeds and forwarding them on to us. If there's something you've been dying to know, this will be a good way to get it on our radar.

If you want to join the conversation, just click on our Livestream page. Again, we'll start talking at 7:00pm Eastern/ 4:00pm Pacific/8am Tuesday in Japan. And, if you can't make it in time for the live chat, we'll post the full video here later.

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