1. yes
2. probably about 50%
3. usually most if not all of them
4. usually
5. no
6. n/a, but I read it just now…goto statements are bad. Do not use it in a numbered list if you can avoid it.
7. 8
8. 9
9. n/a (I don’t think I’ve read any posts as such)
10. 8
11. 3 – it sucks. I do not touch this site unless I have to; rss reader only
12. always
13. no
14. more documentation. especially regards to easy-to-read, easy-to-understand methods to process the data on the blog and ways to reply. and all your freaking cross-posting blogs.
1. Yes, yes.
2. At most, probably 25.
3. Depending on the links, anywhere from 50-100%
4. Yes.
5. Not yet.
6. N/A
7. 7
8. 8
9. 10
10. 9
11. 10
12. Yes.
13. No. Not nearly enough.
14. Generic comment about how I’ve been liking the execution so far and how I can’t see any problems with it. I wish there were more blogs that do what you’ve been doing with this.
Just remembered that there’re parts of Welcome to the NHK (the anime and especially the novel, can’t speak for the manga) which deal either with Christians or a small Christianesque sect (I can’t remember which, but given the small size of Japan’s Christian community, I wonder how much of a distinction that is in the first place).
“(Where, precisely, is Christianity native? You can make a tenuous argument for the Mediterranean rim, I suppose.)”
I don’t know…I guess you can trace its constituent tenants back to Judaism or something. It’s actual political formation, I don’t know. Typical answer would be Jerusalem, but yeah, don’t know anything about that either, though it’s probably “global”, as you say, at least Mediterranean.
And I heard that Hinduism is really the oldest religion, so it may be traced back there unless Judaism evolved parallel to it.
“Just remembered that there’re parts of Welcome to the NHK…”
hmmm I don’t really remember that. I just remember one time in Samurai Champloo there’s this underground Christian who poses as an European but is really a Japanese arms dealer or something.
1. Yes, yes.
2. I read an average of two or three, say, with close attention, and skim-read about half of the rest.
3. An average that is close to zero.
4. Not unless I have to; hopefully the linkee’s post is navigable enough that I can find what was relevant to the linker’s post.
5. Yes.
6. Up to #9, yes. Then it becomes increasingly incomprehensible.
7, 8, 9 & 10 I haven’t kept track of which posts are categorised as what, and I haven’t the time to go and assess them; n/a
11. I’m not an expert. Usually read in reader. One bugbear would be absence of full sidebar when reading a single post.
12. Yes, of course. The broader the better.
13. Hard to say, depends. Does this matter? Presumably the idea behind not having comments is to drive discussion towards the anitated posts, but what if you accidentally say something interesting yourself?
14. Can’t really agree with TheBigN here: one or two of these are okay, but I want to see more people writing about anime (while of course responding to and interacting with other bloggers), not people writing about people writing about anime. So don’t encourage imitators, subsume them instead.
1. Yes, because it is a good one and because I often read censored content if I go to each blog individually.
2. About 100-200
3. About 1-2 – Depends I usually wait until I go home to watch vids
4. Same answer as the 3rd.
5. What’s that?
6. N.A
7. 6 I guess… since I only am able to click on anitations to comment on when I am home, since firewall at my job censors blogs with supposed adult content.
8. 7 Are you guys an agregator?
9. 8
10. 7
11. 5 – Didn’t really navigate.
12. Yes..
13. Yes
14. I am actually a little perplex by anitations, not really sure what this is, but since you guys actually cataloged the 12 Days.. that got me interested in you guys as a blog.
What I find most interesting is that most anime makes references to Christianity out of all the major religions. I sometimes wonder whether there was another character in another anime that followed a different religion instead.
I’m aware that the United States is formed by Catholics/Protestants and regardless of how “tolerant” it has become today, the roots of our ancestry still exists. So I find it understandable that Americans may find Zange’s character offensive. Even as you say that people bring religion to Kannagi, the creator did portrays her as a “Christian nun”. I think the same reaction will be found in a historically religious country if Zange followed another religion such as Buddhism.
1. Yes. Yes.
2. All of them.
3. Almost all of them. It depends on whether or not the anitation interests me enough to continue, really. That and the quote in said anitation.
4. Yes.
5. No, but a link would be good.
6. n/a
7. 10
8. 9
9. 8
10. 7
11. 5
12. No, dear God, no. You read enough as it is, and quality must trump quantity.
13. No. It could be more trollish.
14. You’re making Ani-Nouto obsolete here–I like how your anitations have a breadth and depth that is currently beating Author’s thoughts into the ground while making him look narrow-minded in comparison. Continue doing what you’re doing.
1) I use Google Reader, and I should add your feed. And all those shared feeds out there. Eek.
2) Eh, I don’t read anitations on a daily basis (since I don’t use your feed), but when I come here, I do read – or at least skim – all the articles since last time.
3) If the link interests me, I click it, if not, I don’t; I tend to be picky and only read things relevant to my interests.
4) Can’t recall, but I imagine I would if I’m interested enough to get there.
5) Nope. Maybe I should.
6) (see above)
7) 9. I don’t quite mentally differentiate the categories, but this one is basically the “Google Reader shared items with more words” category IIRC. Very helpful in hitting the important points of articles and spreading the word of interesting posts.
8) 9. Damn lot easier than trying to find a bunch of posts on AB.net or Anime Nano.
9) 6. This gets an ‘eh’ because I didn’t see enough of these to care. Not to mention, usually it’s easier to collect posts intentionally part of the same series together on my own (as opposed to what you do with the ‘collected’ posts)
10) 8. How is this different from notes? Less commentary?
11) Eh … 7. It’s a very ani-nouto-esque barebones, clean interface. But as such, it’s not particularly interesting. In a sense, it works, and that’s it.
12) Gut reaction plus attention whorism says “more bloggers = good” but Owen raises a valid point with the whole “more quality, less quantity” idea.
13) I never really got the impression that anitations was ‘trollish’ – did I miss that?
14) anitations is cool stuff. I like seeing innovations like this in the otakusphere. It’s unique and quite helpful. Praise, etc
1. Do you use a feed reader such as Google Reader, and if so, do you read anitations’ content in said reader? I use a feed reader, but I read the contents of most blogs in Firefox, rather than the reader.
2. In a given day’s new posted content, how many posts do you read? Depends on how bored I am. I can read anywhere from 5 to 20, if I get on a roll.
3. In a given post, how many embedded links do you click? If it’s something directly relating to the post, I’ll read as many as there are. Which can be really dangerous, as I can get caught in a never ending recursive chain, trying to read one article, then reading another before finishing the first, then being forwarded to another, etc
4. And, if so, do you then proceed to read the post that was linked? Well, to add to what I said above, too many links to other topics can be a bit daunting. That’s sorta why I like anitations, usually the most important part is quoted and discussed. So I guess yes and no, depending on the situation.
5. Have you read the page “anitating strategies”? Nope
6. If so, have you found it insightful? n/a
7. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as notes at anitations. 9.5
8. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as collected at anitations. 9.5
9. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as anthologies at anitations. 10
10. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as summaries at anitations. 10
11. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of anitations’ navigation (categories, widgets) 7
12. Yes or no: would you like to see a more diverse selection of anitated bloggers? Yes. While there’s a huge list already, it never hurts to add more to the pile in this case.
13. Yes or no: is anitations too trollish? Only sometimes. But I find trolling amusing personally, so I don’t mind it anyway
14. Please give anitations your general opinion. It’s like a mini-feed reader that gathers together posts on similar topics. I really do find it helpful to see similar and conflicting opinions all in one place. That said, concerning a lot of the stuff discussed here, I feel a bit out of my league. I guess I’m just not quite as invested in blogging as some others. To me, it’s just a hobby, a place to write down my thoughts, however shallow they may be.
Guts from Berserk actually won the Saigar competition back when it first ran. So, I have to say, if anyone wants to try and understand ‘gar’, or at least, what the word means to the majority of people, you should probably be looking at him first.
I was gonna mention “dude from Berserk” since bakaraptor always shows pictures of this insanely buff guy.
and how did I leave out everyone from DBZ??? For me, Vegeta is the EPITOME of GAR.
@ghost: I forgot, and thanks for reminding me, about the distinction between GAR and MANLY TEARS – if there really is a difference. We may think of GAR as a character trait, but MANLY TEARS as an event.
Bucock really elicited a ton of MANY TEARS in the episode I won’t spoil for innocent bystandards. I mean, every character in LoGH produced MANLY TEARS at one point or another, and MANLY TEARS may not even be as related to GAR as we may think.
Though I’d like to say that this 3 space graph is totalizing – are there any other aspects (axes) that are missing?
And, as for Bucock, he’s not GAR when he’s just an old man, but he becomes GAR later on, so when we situate characters on the graph I made, you really have to homogenize them disregard the temporality of the character.
The article on THAT you’re linking to doesn’t exist. That or it’s private :p
I’m not sure what you’re really getting at here though. Are you saying it’s not worth the effort it takes to dredge up these behemoths of multi-author articles, because the effort doesn’t show or isn’t worth it? Or rather, is that what Crusader is saying and you’re disagreeing?
I guess I should actually read through all that meta bullshit that omisyth started with his bringing up the blogosphere. Goddamnit this is going to take forever.
this isn’t a conclusive post in itself, it just addresses what I found to be the salient points in Crusader’s post…that is, if I could get past the extended metaphors.
Put bluntly: Crusader’s polemic made good points (they were mostly reiterations of things I’ve previously said in different terms) in a way too long which was ironic (see last sentence of this post), and that saying I (or anyone really) hasnt had any “achievements” is just UGUU~
That last paragraph sounds pretty fukken trollish, but hey. No hard feelings…
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1. yes
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 10:23 am ¶2. probably about 50%
3. usually most if not all of them
4. usually
5. no
6. n/a, but I read it just now…goto statements are bad. Do not use it in a numbered list if you can avoid it.
7. 8
8. 9
9. n/a (I don’t think I’ve read any posts as such)
10. 8
11. 3 – it sucks. I do not touch this site unless I have to; rss reader only
12. always
13. no
14. more documentation. especially regards to easy-to-read, easy-to-understand methods to process the data on the blog and ways to reply. and all your freaking cross-posting blogs.
1. Yes, yes.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 10:27 am ¶2. At most, probably 25.
3. Depending on the links, anywhere from 50-100%
4. Yes.
5. Not yet.
6. N/A
7. 7
8. 8
9. 10
10. 9
11. 10
12. Yes.
13. No. Not nearly enough.
14. Generic comment about how I’ve been liking the execution so far and how I can’t see any problems with it. I wish there were more blogs that do what you’ve been doing with this.
Not having seen Kannagi I can’t comment in detail, but ‘incidental troll’ works for me.
(Where, precisely, is Christianity native? You can make a tenuous argument for the Mediterranean rim, I suppose.)
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 10:31 am ¶Just remembered that there’re parts of Welcome to the NHK (the anime and especially the novel, can’t speak for the manga) which deal either with Christians or a small Christianesque sect (I can’t remember which, but given the small size of Japan’s Christian community, I wonder how much of a distinction that is in the first place).
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 11:43 am ¶“(Where, precisely, is Christianity native? You can make a tenuous argument for the Mediterranean rim, I suppose.)”
I don’t know…I guess you can trace its constituent tenants back to Judaism or something. It’s actual political formation, I don’t know. Typical answer would be Jerusalem, but yeah, don’t know anything about that either, though it’s probably “global”, as you say, at least Mediterranean.
And I heard that Hinduism is really the oldest religion, so it may be traced back there unless Judaism evolved parallel to it.
“Just remembered that there’re parts of Welcome to the NHK…”
hmmm I don’t really remember that. I just remember one time in Samurai Champloo there’s this underground Christian who poses as an European but is really a Japanese arms dealer or something.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 1:01 pm ¶@lolnony: I see, so to increase the proxy value. Hmmm. As far as cross-posting goes, I post all my entries here,, that is, if I understood you right…
N: thanks
just noticed that spoiler tags don’t show up in google reader, which kills the streamlined effect that on blogging anthology had. Hmm…
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 2:39 pm ¶1. Yes, yes.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 3:51 pm ¶2. I read an average of two or three, say, with close attention, and skim-read about half of the rest.
3. An average that is close to zero.
4. Not unless I have to; hopefully the linkee’s post is navigable enough that I can find what was relevant to the linker’s post.
5. Yes.
6. Up to #9, yes. Then it becomes increasingly incomprehensible.
7, 8, 9 & 10 I haven’t kept track of which posts are categorised as what, and I haven’t the time to go and assess them; n/a
11. I’m not an expert. Usually read in reader. One bugbear would be absence of full sidebar when reading a single post.
12. Yes, of course. The broader the better.
13. Hard to say, depends. Does this matter? Presumably the idea behind not having comments is to drive discussion towards the anitated posts, but what if you accidentally say something interesting yourself?
14. Can’t really agree with TheBigN here: one or two of these are okay, but I want to see more people writing about anime (while of course responding to and interacting with other bloggers), not people writing about people writing about anime. So don’t encourage imitators, subsume them instead.
1. Yes, because it is a good one and because I often read censored content if I go to each blog individually.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 4:30 pm ¶2. About 100-200
3. About 1-2 – Depends I usually wait until I go home to watch vids
4. Same answer as the 3rd.
5. What’s that?
6. N.A
7. 6 I guess… since I only am able to click on anitations to comment on when I am home, since firewall at my job censors blogs with supposed adult content.
8. 7 Are you guys an agregator?
9. 8
10. 7
11. 5 – Didn’t really navigate.
12. Yes..
13. Yes
14. I am actually a little perplex by anitations, not really sure what this is, but since you guys actually cataloged the 12 Days.. that got me interested in you guys as a blog.
What I find most interesting is that most anime makes references to Christianity out of all the major religions. I sometimes wonder whether there was another character in another anime that followed a different religion instead.
I’m aware that the United States is formed by Catholics/Protestants and regardless of how “tolerant” it has become today, the roots of our ancestry still exists. So I find it understandable that Americans may find Zange’s character offensive. Even as you say that people bring religion to Kannagi, the creator did portrays her as a “Christian nun”. I think the same reaction will be found in a historically religious country if Zange followed another religion such as Buddhism.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 4:59 pm ¶Aren’t they just different prongs on the same trident, though?
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 5:54 pm ¶Did I mention that expression is the manifestation of reflection and interaction?
You can express reflective interaction.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 5:58 pm ¶@owen: only in the sphere yes – the trident is discourse. in reality you can be pensive, etc.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 6:06 pm ¶1. Yes. Yes.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 6:17 pm ¶2. All of them.
3. Almost all of them. It depends on whether or not the anitation interests me enough to continue, really. That and the quote in said anitation.
4. Yes.
5. No, but a link would be good.
6. n/a
7. 10
8. 9
9. 8
10. 7
11. 5
12. No, dear God, no. You read enough as it is, and quality must trump quantity.
13. No. It could be more trollish.
14. You’re making Ani-Nouto obsolete here–I like how your anitations have a breadth and depth that is currently beating Author’s thoughts into the ground while making him look narrow-minded in comparison. Continue doing what you’re doing.
1) I use Google Reader, and I should add your feed. And all those shared feeds out there. Eek.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 6:31 pm ¶2) Eh, I don’t read anitations on a daily basis (since I don’t use your feed), but when I come here, I do read – or at least skim – all the articles since last time.
3) If the link interests me, I click it, if not, I don’t; I tend to be picky and only read things relevant to my interests.
4) Can’t recall, but I imagine I would if I’m interested enough to get there.
5) Nope. Maybe I should.
6) (see above)
7) 9. I don’t quite mentally differentiate the categories, but this one is basically the “Google Reader shared items with more words” category IIRC. Very helpful in hitting the important points of articles and spreading the word of interesting posts.
8) 9. Damn lot easier than trying to find a bunch of posts on AB.net or Anime Nano.
9) 6. This gets an ‘eh’ because I didn’t see enough of these to care. Not to mention, usually it’s easier to collect posts intentionally part of the same series together on my own (as opposed to what you do with the ‘collected’ posts)
10) 8. How is this different from notes? Less commentary?
11) Eh … 7. It’s a very ani-nouto-esque barebones, clean interface. But as such, it’s not particularly interesting. In a sense, it works, and that’s it.
12) Gut reaction plus attention whorism says “more bloggers = good” but Owen raises a valid point with the whole “more quality, less quantity” idea.
13) I never really got the impression that anitations was ‘trollish’ – did I miss that?
14) anitations is cool stuff. I like seeing innovations like this in the otakusphere. It’s unique and quite helpful. Praise, etc
1. hai
2. all of them
3. most of them
4. most of the time
5. nope, didn’t know it existed
6. n/a
7-11, don’t use your categories so can’t help ya
12. sure
13. Yes
14. it’s neat to know what’s going on. Not sure about the value you add to the linked posts.
Posted 06 Jan 2009 at 8:04 pm ¶1. Yes
2. All of them (over 20 posts)
3. As much as 5, but not always (sometimes none, depending on the level of engagement I’m at with the post)
4. Half the time yes.
5. Yes
6. No, not really.
7. Unsure how to rate. But an 8 I suppose.
8. 9 It could’ve been timelier, but props for the effort to catch posts published at different times of the day.
9. 8, do more.
10. Need more time to evaluate this (need to spend time with orig posts) but good effort, 8.
11. 7
12. Yes
13. No.
14. Moar
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 12:30 am ¶1. Do you use a feed reader such as Google Reader, and if so, do you read anitations’ content in said reader?
I use a feed reader, but I read the contents of most blogs in Firefox, rather than the reader.
2. In a given day’s new posted content, how many posts do you read?
Depends on how bored I am. I can read anywhere from 5 to 20, if I get on a roll.
3. In a given post, how many embedded links do you click?
If it’s something directly relating to the post, I’ll read as many as there are. Which can be really dangerous, as I can get caught in a never ending recursive chain, trying to read one article, then reading another before finishing the first, then being forwarded to another, etc
4. And, if so, do you then proceed to read the post that was linked?
Well, to add to what I said above, too many links to other topics can be a bit daunting. That’s sorta why I like anitations, usually the most important part is quoted and discussed. So I guess yes and no, depending on the situation.
5. Have you read the page “anitating strategies”?
Nope
6. If so, have you found it insightful?
n/a
7. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as notes at anitations.
9.5
8. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as collected at anitations.
9.5
9. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as anthologies at anitations.
10
10. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as summaries at anitations.
10
11. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of anitations’ navigation (categories, widgets)
7
12. Yes or no: would you like to see a more diverse selection of anitated bloggers?
Yes. While there’s a huge list already, it never hurts to add more to the pile in this case.
13. Yes or no: is anitations too trollish?
Only sometimes. But I find trolling amusing personally, so I don’t mind it anyway
14. Please give anitations your general opinion.
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 3:18 am ¶It’s like a mini-feed reader that gathers together posts on similar topics. I really do find it helpful to see similar and conflicting opinions all in one place. That said, concerning a lot of the stuff discussed here, I feel a bit out of my league. I guess I’m just not quite as invested in blogging as some others. To me, it’s just a hobby, a place to write down my thoughts, however shallow they may be.
And sometimes, a blogger grabs the haft of the trident rather than the prongs. A good thing too, or else we’d all have bleeding hands.
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 10:57 am ¶Ooh, I like the categorization. Prongs on the same trident, or otherwise.
As long as we use these categories to describe but never to limit, I’m all for it.
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 5:37 pm ¶Owen is right–you want 3 prongs on your pitchfork. Makes a better devil’s advocate that way.
And to an extent most of us exhibit all three aspects.
Posted 07 Jan 2009 at 11:44 pm ¶Admiral Bucock, HE IS GAR.
Posted 08 Jan 2009 at 5:13 pm ¶Guts from Berserk actually won the Saigar competition back when it first ran. So, I have to say, if anyone wants to try and understand ‘gar’, or at least, what the word means to the majority of people, you should probably be looking at him first.
Posted 08 Jan 2009 at 5:41 pm ¶I was gonna mention “dude from Berserk” since bakaraptor always shows pictures of this insanely buff guy.
and how did I leave out everyone from DBZ??? For me, Vegeta is the EPITOME of GAR.
@ghost: I forgot, and thanks for reminding me, about the distinction between GAR and MANLY TEARS – if there really is a difference. We may think of GAR as a character trait, but MANLY TEARS as an event.
Bucock really elicited a ton of MANY TEARS in the episode I won’t spoil for innocent bystandards. I mean, every character in LoGH produced MANLY TEARS at one point or another, and MANLY TEARS may not even be as related to GAR as we may think.
Though I’d like to say that this 3 space graph is totalizing – are there any other aspects (axes) that are missing?
And, as for Bucock, he’s not GAR when he’s just an old man, but he becomes GAR later on, so when we situate characters on the graph I made, you really have to homogenize them disregard the temporality of the character.
Posted 08 Jan 2009 at 6:52 pm ¶The article on THAT you’re linking to doesn’t exist. That or it’s private :p
I’m not sure what you’re really getting at here though. Are you saying it’s not worth the effort it takes to dredge up these behemoths of multi-author articles, because the effort doesn’t show or isn’t worth it? Or rather, is that what Crusader is saying and you’re disagreeing?
I guess I should actually read through all that meta bullshit that omisyth started with his bringing up the blogosphere. Goddamnit this is going to take forever.
Posted 09 Jan 2009 at 7:20 pm ¶it hasn’t been published yet. Preemptive troll.
this isn’t a conclusive post in itself, it just addresses what I found to be the salient points in Crusader’s post…that is, if I could get past the extended metaphors.
Put bluntly: Crusader’s polemic made good points (they were mostly reiterations of things I’ve previously said in different terms) in a way too long which was ironic (see last sentence of this post), and that saying I (or anyone really) hasnt had any “achievements” is just UGUU~
That last paragraph sounds pretty fukken trollish, but hey. No hard feelings…
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