It's been in the works for about two months, and we hope you agree with us that it was worth the wait. This is the first app version in a long time where we're actually adding features, previously we've been 100% focused on improving stability, error messages, and help. While these efforts will continue indefinitely,…

Let's do it! I've been getting lots of emails from black Okinawans who have come across my blog and from so many walks of life. I am so loving this.  And I don't know what to do with all these contacts yet.  I'm wondering how we can harness all this interest. My dream would be…

Stats view coming to a future version of the app. Yay! Version 2.7.2 of the WordPress for iOS app just became available on the App Store. It fixes a number of lingering crashes and bugs. All in all 28 crash/bug reports were closed in this release: Fixed crash when the password had a space, on…

I just learned of this event.  A former military Airman killed his Okinawan wife by beating her to death in Fairview Park, Ohio. I cannot tell you how sick this story makes me.  Domestic violence, especially in the military, is still not adequately addressed.   I don't know how to begin this post because the…

As Scott mentioned in his How is WordPress.com Made? post, at Automattic we work from all over the world, and we use internal blogs for socializing and exchanging non-work ideas in addition to making WordPress.com and our other products more awesome. One of the things we're really concerned about is staying healthy – we even have…

So much of my work focuses on how Okinawa is circulated, race, and "security imaginaries." I came across this video on youtube a few months ago.  It's an old U.S. Army PR video about Okinawa–positioning it geopolitically as the "keystone of the Pacific."   In many ways, much of this discourse is sedimented in the…

With the launch of Apple's iPad we have seen the future of computing and it is touch. Nothing matches the visceral feel of navigating your digital world with your hands. The past four months we've been working closely with Onswipe to bring your iPad visitors our vision of what a blog can look like re-imagined for a…

Some of you readers may have already heard the news about U.S. Diplomat Kevin Maher's racist remarks about Okinawans to a group of students at the State Department.  Maher was head of the Japanese Affairs Office and Former Consul General in Okinawa which makes his comments even more a tragedy for Okinawans and the US.…