6-weeks O.o, I’m glad you cared to read, thank you. If you can manage what lelangir has, various outlets, I’d say it is a good thing. ^_^

@usagijen

we need MOAR posts like these to encourage people to discover this ‘community’, step out of their comfort zones (if they so wish), and liven up this whole blogging scene

Well, I hope it shows those external to the community that there is some strive to grow and accommodate more types of readers (we have good diversity now, but it’s still limited in “redundant” ways).

I think we all fall into redundancy, it’s easy, but there are ways to express a point already visited that counter it. Writing entries that trackback or even using your ‘Shared Items’ feed to point visitors to things that you would have liked to write about, but it’s already in the community.

Whats so wrong with pointing readers to articles the blogger found interesting or worth the read? Nothing at all.

Have to wonder how this can be really achieved though

It’s rather easy if there is a platform similar to the Antenna, just submit your Shared Item feed url, and it will begin to aggregate (of course there is a more technical side to it, but it’s all possible).

Twitter is nice, but it is more like a stop-motion “chat-room” and doesn’t quiet “web” the info we should be looking at as a community.

is our silly Taiga conversations, which I’m sure isn’t the kind of “conversation” lelangir’s referring to

No, definitely not, because you’re conversations have context based on the media, and it’s not much different than an impression, it’s more raw and often enjoyable.

Actually, I really enjoy this sort of thing, because it’s non-standard form of content. ^^ Just like more should use notes publicly, more should do this sort of “live” commentary.

@TheBigN

I think OH! is aiming for such existence, which is positive. And, yes when author’s keep their own blogs it’s not a bad thing, that way the still have a sense of free expression if a given entry is not going to conform to their team standards.

You make a interesting point about being vertical for a common “purpose”, I would venture that the purpose is whatever the blog intends to cover. Here, vertical growth isn’t a problem because the horizontal width will usually cover good ground….

…just realized all this horizontal and vertical lingo is probably better with examples or a flat “map” where we can say a blog cover so-and-so areas.

In any case, as long as the community is not “pyramiding” upward, there should be no issues. We aren’t at that stage because there is still good diversity. Of course, like lelangir mentioned, what would happen after continual groupings and merging.

It could all be settled with a 300-way game of capture the flag. ^^

Thank you guys for reading, as authors you’re input is very informative.

I also discovered that you can, similarly with nano, subscribe to a feed in a feed. I’ll post a “tutorial” on THAT soon, hopefully. I hope this can become reality and an actual, consistent practice amongst people in the aniblogosphere. It would be so freaking awesome.

The FAIL redundancy is most likely to occur if a certain author (or the authors) does not have a ‘community mindset’ (used for convenience’s sake), as they’ll be posting whatever they want, regardless or whether or not the topic is already cliche (awareness of its clicheness will allow them to add more spice into the old discussion, or ‘increase competition’, as you’ve very well said). I know people can’t be arsed to do this extra effort when writing posts, but it’s great if people would have this kind of mindset. This will not only lessen the occurrences of the fail redundancy, but allow them to discover (and immerse themselves into) the vastness of the ’sphere, interact with like-minded bloggers (or otherwise), and in a way, and gain more appreciation for it as they witness its history. Then again, I fall into this ‘redundancy trap’ at times too, heh.

And, regarding this:

What would be really awesome, you may already be thinking this, is to have an aggregator of various reader/blogger’s lensing/noting (Shared Items in Google Reader). Unfortunately, this is more work for authors and asking readers to do such a thing is sort of fishy. If there were a sub-group of producers, not authors, that did this and that is all they did, it could be highly effective…. I wonder if any team-blogs have thought of designating that position to members.

Awesome idea, and this popped into my mind when you brought out the nifty Google Reader notes idea too. Have to wonder how this can be really achieved though, becoming connected in gmail/gtalk perhaps? I’d love to pry into the Shared Items of other bloggers, and see other blogs that they ‘connect’ to (particularly the ones that aren’t in our radar). Something to keep this community all the more interconnected (to achieve far more than what twitter is doing atm).

and now to digress a bit. the first thing that came into my mind when lelangir mentioned “I wonder what that says about people posting chat conversations?”, is our silly Taiga conversations, which I’m sure isn’t the kind of “conversation” lelangir’s referring to, lol. xD

Also, my nomadic habits allow for a greater range of freedom. I wouldn’t want to post five meta posts in a row on THAT, people would hate me. But if I do it quietly in a circle of five or six blogs no one notices…! Well, kinda.