Tag: social

Ryan Has El ノート, Blog Lensing

Posted by Ryan A - September 21, 08

How many of bloggers read other blogs in abundance, totali I know? I’m not sure where “reading other blogs more than writing your own” stands in the sphere, but I don’t find it negative, other than being extremely time-consuming.

Presumably, most who do are of the nu-school bloggers or writers of highly-meta blogs, such as the infamous アニ・ノート. While some of the big names (RC, Memento, Hop Step Jump!) may read here and there, I don’t think they have a large feed list (do they read their blogroll?).

Get Meta, with Google Reader

The great thing about アニ・ノート is that it acts as a [meta] filter for the otakuken. By paying attention to Author’s posts, a wide variety of the community is put into context, and much of the hassle about checking the reader for articles is taken away. Still, Author is one man, and the variety keeps growing.

I surely do not know the weight of Google Reader, it seems fine, but I definitely prefer software applications [opposed to cloud]. What interests me is the noting portal、or clippings; yes this is similar to Google Notebook, but more applicable for what I’m aiming at. For the bloggers who read blogs, it’s time for Notes.

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This is Space Meta

What Google Reader enables one to do is make noise notes on entries, cut up the entries, and share them into a public feed. O_O! Think about that, reading and noting (not blogging). If there was a group of 5-10 people, each subscribed to 50 feeds, with 20% overlap, they can cover anywhere from 200-400 feeds. Mixing in the notes, if one were to subscribe to their note feeds, how much ground would they be covering, or filtering?

This is a meta-step back from commenting, I think that’s important, because a comment is a conversation within the context, and a note is more like a reflection about the context. In the case of finding what [and possibly more important] to read, with less effort, the outer-context is much more useful.

Implementation

Being feed crazy on Aloe, Dream, I decided to pin my own note-feed to things. Hopefully, those who read blogs may start noting as well, because I’d really like to see how condensed the information and variety can get.

Reaching Out For the World

Posted by Ryan A - September 13, 08

the world

Today Yesterday, I was pondering this whole seasonal thing, and I found another idea funny, but assuring, in my own sense of self.

I’m finishing this post because it was interrupted by the G00 entry last night, and Jeff’s most recent update made me ponder seasonal affairs, and why so many take to that path.

Plain

Perhaps the most obvious reason for seasonal watching is because it it is current, airing now, and in progress (it isn’t in the past). With this comes a few notions about seasonal viewers 1- seasonal titles are the only thing they haven’t experience (least likely) 2- it’s paced and organized, one episode per series per week allows decent scheduling.

These are not the interesting ideas about seasonal viewing, it gets better with the social perspective.

Social

Pondering seasonal viewing from a social aspect, I came upon two natural stimuli, competition and affiliation (belonging). Especially in the otakuken, these concepts hold pretty well, but why does it work? Simply, everyone has the ability to look at the same things in relatively the same span of time. This has transformed the quantity of an episode into a sharable event.

An episode contains something in the moment and often draws reflection, but generally it is information, and retains power. Thus we have:

  • Competition: who has the most information, the best handle?
  • Affiliation: synchronous communication and mutual expression by viewers

Isn’t it humanly interesting? I’m not strong on seasonal viewing, but with this aspect, I feel it is innate, human, and the sign of something healthy. Ne?

Now, I don’t plan to change my habits of nonchalant seasonal adventures, but I’d be lying if I denied the slight desire to view seasonal series and interact with others viewing the same series (I do on some level). It’s quite natural… grasp it and love it, I am human.