But yea, breaking commitments is going to have a pretty bad effect from the readers’ viewpoint. Dragging along without stating, “there will be no more posts on title-X,” may be worse.

In any case, there is an interesting mix of “content” versus “status” which spells a good case for subject isolation.

Good pondering materials.

It’s like, if I told readers that I will be blogging every episode of Shin Mazinger Z and then I drop the whole thing after 3 eps, then…

I can retain my readers (who followed my coverage) by writing other content, but I relinquish the right to expect that they’ll read my other content (let’s say about Sengoku Basara).

@mellow bunny Side Blogz! no jk. You entirely make sense. The issue is definitely the chance of breaking commitment, but realistically it shouldn’t matter… unless bloggers are going to admit they watch series for the sheer action of blogging about them, which isn’t true in most cases.

I believe declarations and commitments are going towards the subscription-reader relation, but as I mentioned above, professional, corporate publishers don’t state what they are going to write about with such specifics. They have a category of interesting and write a bunch of stuff in that area (or slightly related areas).

Still, giving heads ups aren’t bad. It provides some clarity to readers.

Unfortunately for the writer, if he/she commits and is unable to achieve then they start to feel bad. They believe that the readers are upset and begin to imagine a world where they are struggling. I’m not saying commitment is a bad thing but in the wrong context it can lead people to screw themselves up.

Readers at the end of the day will read whatever catches their eye right? If your blog doesn’t have what they are looking for then they will go elsewhere. The Antenna and Nano both facilitate this procedure.

Declaring the action seems to be taken from the fact that people are watching shows. Shows which declare their action and intent well in advance. So like the shows the bloggers have taken on a pattern. A pattern they believe best suits the medium they watch. I’m not sure if this has really sunk in and been questioned by people in quite this manner before.

Declaring the action in a schedule based on input the actioner (hehe) receives is perhaps not the best idea for everyone all around. Blogs are being used in a manner that isn’t perhaps best suited to what they are being adapted to in the example of anime blogs.

Many blogs are intending to facilitate a structured system as rigid and reliable as the shows they watch. I think a re-education of sorts needs to happen. But what is the best direction? People still want to follow a pattern or organisation of some sort. If announcing an action and attempting to follow it come what may isn’t the best idea then what is?

Then again, I do this whenever I’ve seen the first episode of a show, though I don’t do episodic blogging anymore. But there’s no sort of responsibility for me, at least. Perhaps they feel that if they do say they’re going to blog it, they will. But the Internets is a fickle mistress, it seems.