1. I do not want material here to substitute for original content – the ends justify the means.
2. As the word count of the original post increases, the ratio of summary word count to original word count should drop. As such, shorter original posts will produce summaries that are closer in length.
3. Conversely, the lengthier a summary gets, the more pointless it becomes (the ’sphere has its own tl;dr limits)
4. All summaries will not be larger than an entire screen. If you have to scroll to read more, it’s not short enough. Though this depends on screen resolution, the majority of which that visit this site are 1280×1024.
5. Notes can be longer than a page length insofar as they contain substantive and informative quotes from other sources.
6. Writing summaries on blogs whose value is largely derived from how they write is pointless, i.e. various Brits.
7. Having a rating system is nearly pointless since this is supposed to be read through a reader, primarily.
8. However, using a specific user-feedback widget would be beneficial. This differs from a standard comment box because it tailors user response to deal with the form of the blog, not the content – insofar as people really do respond appropriately with it, and it’s likely they would.
9. I’m beginning to think that this is a very transient blog; that is, as a blog lens it functions primarily in the present, a way to funnel constantly flowing material.
10. Of course that isn’t to say anitations can’t lens older material. A possible category I had originally planned for was “annotated anthologies”, which takes a broad look at concepts whose constituent posts are scattered around the sphere. This would make anitations less transient and more grounded as a substantial, referential location, rather than simply a proxy – it would, then, also be a concrete thing in itself.
11. Tags according to blogger seems to be the best route for tagging. Doing it by anime or topic is too ambiguous for me.
11b. Tags are stupid looking, making the “prominence” of bloggers look horribly hyperbolic. Re-categorization is in order…
12. Doesn’t blog lensing counteract centralization and vertical integration? This is because lensing adds in a horizontal vector to content distribution. In ideal settings, the horizontal lensing would perfectly counteract vertical integration, leaving the best of both worlds. One must then think both about the benefits of vertical integration and technologies blogging methods that sustain and nourish horizontal lensing.
13. Is there really any point in referencing the dead tree? This suggests a difference between intra-sphere lensing (concentration of content) and inter-sphere linking (connecting disparate spheres).
14. In relation to #9-10, how does the ’sphere perceive its own history? What is the standard “turn-over rate” for posts? Think about “upwelling” and the constant recirculation of older material to an audience that is continuously young.
15. Despite the internet being “public”, anitations seems to be primarily in the private sphere, directed only towards a very small niche/clique. In order for it to be really successful, it needs to be transplanted into the public sphere via nano or something.
16. In relation to #14, this is horribly ironic. To think that a proxy can be ahistorical is disturbingly ignorant – this blog itself has history, its own posts are subsumed within the current of its continuous updates. An organic blog (one that is alive and updating) cannot be ahistoric. The only way for historic content to be upwelled continuously is for bloggers to mention them every once in a while. They cannot be pedestaled forever. However, the efficiency of categories can alleviate this symptom if the navigation is stellar.
17. Insofar as anitations is primarily transient, traffic will reflect this in two forms of traffic: (1) base traffic, which is traffic that looks for reference, or (2) lens traffic, traffic that was produced through transience like up-to-date readers or trackbacks. Lens traffic will always be greater than base traffic, but base traffic can grow.
18. I just realized that those collected episodic notes are really just “twitter-izations”. You can view notes as reductions or “precise” excisions, and so two sentence copies start to resemble short tweets.
19. Blogomerates [or wanderers] upset dominant notions of “signal to noise” because they exist in more than one zone at a time.
20. Rather than anitating being inexplicably trollish, it’s incidental trolling insofar as it is polemic.
