Currently, I’m listening to Sigur Rós’ 2006 EP Sæglópur (A Lost Seafarer); simple things of great implication.
I gladly read two meta-esque posts today, related to one another, and I found a bit of stimulus, though this isn’t related to anime at all?
Blog culture
Michael did a fab writeup on blogging and style. I am in total alignment of the notions, but the meaning I found advocates me not anime blogging. Editorials are great things, and extremely tough to write well (writing is difficult enough). Previously, I stated “editorials are out [for me]“, which is basically true. I cannot write editorials on anime, I don’t have influence from the media! Meta-editorials I guess, isn’t this one in sort of a Zen-ish way?
The problem is that I have 99 stimuli (apprx), other influences which I am charged by; especially film and music. These may fit in anime blogging at times, but there is absolutely no tautology.
Micro-blogging revisited
Well, I’ve stated my case with this thing enough, so I will probably just leave it at that. Hige makes an interesting+valid argument about the appearance of these as what I’ll call “outlets”. I’m glad to see bloggers take this approach… who wouldn’t want to see the short notes of famous creators (authors, poets, directors, musicians, etc)? In this case, reading a blogger’s mini-blurbs would definitely invite a greater understanding of related full-posts; I have little doubt.
The thing I am aiming for is more non-bloggers [media-specific] to share their reflections, hence the existence of the site which encompasses all media. Comparing to something like MAL, which has been developed since 2003, melative is just 14 inconsistent months into development. I shouldn’t expect people to “get it,” understanding takes time, and one person is 1 person ^_^. Sorry for sounding like a broken record.
Anyway, a good pair of thoughtful posts in the otakusphere.
Ryan A
I don’t know if a lot of good ever came out of mass synergy > mass centralization > mass standardization.
Putting it that way, it sounds bad ^^ but then there’s wikipedia.org. I’m not sure of the 3xMass was aimed at melative, but I think so. melative is basically wikipedia, but rather than objective/factual information on everything, it is subjective information on media. In that respect, I don’t see how the 3xMass is a bad thing, since wikipedia exists, and I for one am glad for that.
Synergy: relate media, which are related
Centralization: group media into one facilitator
Standardization: yield a given way about interaction with the media
The only difference between melative and any other media site, be it MAL, imdb, last.fm, spout, etc is that they do all of these things based on a single media. Single media or all media, the general case will state that one or many does not make a difference. They are equivalent.
Hi Ryan!
Who cares, why not just write? Sate yourself before you sate others. One must enjoy what he does.
It’s a good point. I do write what and the way I enjoy, but that is when I write. This place would not be an animeblog anymore, but I think I will do that 99 reason finite-blog, because then I can incorporate everything; it is possible here, everything is possible really, but I’d rather keep domains wholesome.
I think you have your first editorial topic there…how anime doesn’t affect you to a profound level. Kind of the anti-anime-editorial.
Well, I wouldn’t say it “doesnt affect” me. I have many influences and inspiration from anime, but I’m not sure anything I’m seasonally viewing has enough weight to truly push me.
The moments are getting closer… I will launch the finite-blog I have mentioned ^^