So I was playing around in Google Reader with the recently established stream feed on melative, when I saw some comments flowing in on usagi’s lively Cross Game post. ghostlightning mentioned my name, and it grabbed my attention. He touched on the relation of behavior and decisions which occur, leading to a newly found anime endeavor; given, it could/should be generalized for just about every type of media.
Rather than deeply ponder the thoughts, I’ll just start by having a representation of my own order of influence when it comes to taking on a series I may have never given time.
First, the mentioned sources:
- a - Direct/RL Recommendation
- b - [Professional] Internet Review
- c - Blogger Review
- d - Blogger Season Preview/Hype/Pimp
- e - Blogger twitter (why not anyone else?)
- f - Blogger Direct Recommendation
- g - Comment/Reader Recommendations
- h - Forum Discussion
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this list is that bloggers play a big part. I think it is an incomplete list with regard to every single viewer out there and every way of recommending.
Here’s probably how I would rank:
- a+f - I know a very small set of non-blogger anime watchers; I like bloggers.
- c - I like bloggers.
- g - If I get them, it happens.
- d+e - Quite passive on previews; just like seeing the pre-take. I casually skim tweets unless I’m there at the time, and it’s basically impossible to see impressions on one series among those I follow (without searching PLEASE!).
- h+b - Forums are messy, pro. anime reviews seem out-of-touch; I do like user reviews. (I have regard for some awesome old AnimeNFO user reviews)
So there are two sides of the situation, when we take a recommendation/suggestion and when we leave it, which is a bit interesting if we want to formulate an algorithm which maps this non-self influence of the experience. The benefit also has two sides answering the questions: 1) how does the viewer’s decisions on experience relate to recommendations? 2) what source has the greatest sway over listeners?
Developing a media-centric web-framework has it’s perks, and I may begin writing a solution in the near future; sooner if it seems immediately useful.
