Tag: bloglomerates

Our Future: オタク圏3

Posted by Ryan A - December 6, 08

In this final addition, I want to stress the solutions or actions we may take in order to build a future for the otakusphere, in order to not simply let it idle+die, confined to a very small subset of the internet, and still less attractive to the mainstream of fans. Briefly, it comes down to our stimulation, our lineage, and our unified spectrum, or how we appear externally.

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Our Future: オタク圏 2

Posted by Ryan A - November 25, 08

In the previous post, I outlined very general aspects which I see playing in the anime-blogosphere, and followed with a hypothetical question, “What if the top 5 single-author blogs suddenly phased out?” in terms of readership distribution. Ultimately, I believe team-blogs have an advantage for both authors and readers, yet it is not absolute.

Before expressing my support to lelangir’s post about the questioning of a blogomerate centralized otakusphere, I would like to express some general grouping of blogs in state and genre1 in open-classification (feel free to correct or modify me ね).

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Our Future: オタク圏 1

Posted by Ryan A - November 20, 08

champloo

Perhaps I shan’t be the one to call the draw, but has anyone noticed the author rollback this year? Want me to yield good examples: Lawson and Garten… to blissmo and those Yukaners (glad it wasn’t a cult bunny.. well you know).

These matters cannot be helped, but it does grind the grade of the otakusphere.

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Bloglomerate Stance

Posted by Ryan A - October 2, 08

A one Mr. Mellow Bunny, posted over at mellowspace.com on the recent spring of group blogs, yet I think there’s more to the story, because group j-media blogging is not new considering the epic THAT had it’s 2 year anniversary last month (speaking of which, why when did I start this blog again…)

Particularly, I should bring attention to Oi, Hayaku! and ㊥出し. Why? Because these are evolutions from members of the otakuken. Why not mention the All Girl RR Thing? It’s a different approach, to put it shortly… bubble-gum and roller skates vs red white-collars on Wall St, and inadvertently, I did mention it.

Oi, Hayaku!

This one isn’t special because the “gatherer” of writers was kept in the dark for weeks, rather, the approach is seemingly aiming for professionalism. In terms of blog professionalism, I think it’d be good to take a glimps of well-known examples like engadget or stereogum. If you can picture an “anime” blog, not that they are purely-anime anymore, with the presence and pretty of one of these two, then the jig is up.

Oi, Hayaku! has potential already in specifically selecting authors. Point-of-fail: editors. Almost assuredly, a post coming from an engadget-level blog are checked a few times by numerous people before the post hits, because it is the professional way.

㊥出し

bj0rn’s new shibang is more like stereogum in the aspect of fun entertainment. I don’t think the overall purpose is a sheer professionalism, but in the music industry, le swag often sells. That being said, it’s okay to get the paws dirty, because it sells, and not everyone wants bad-ass, thought provoking creations, that cannot even be contained in the simplistic word, “post.” [see a|o or CAT].

The important part is summed nicely in the About section…

Let’s just say after many years of being in the anime community, we, a bunch of regular members decided to come up with this site to write about things we feel like and to share information and do discussions with others out there.

Simple + nice, where’s the money at?

General B

These are chess moves. While I’m sure others have grouped in similar fashion, just any multi-author blog isn’t going to come and play, no no no. The difference we are seeing is decisiveness, planning, scheming, and all those beautiful emotive moves one may encounter in the world of financial acquisitions (or Code Geass). Surely, I think these two are just a start…

Welcome to the rise of Bloglomerates!

Where the big picture is invisible.

…and so it begins.