I saw the report at J.P.'s place, where he says that he "died inside (again) today". I think the article is pretty funny myself, with pearls of: "While other Web sites focus on flashy-social networking features and eye-catching advertisements, 4chan's design is archaic and the color scheme is …
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Why there are no Russian animebloggers
I asked this question before, and now a simple explanation: they blog in English:
It is not exactly my first time of anime blogging in general [...] Unfortunately i have no desire to do any kind of coherent anime blogging in Russian, thus I am here.
Via Owen, who alerted me …
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Impz the historian
Impz posted an updated summary of the animeblogging history, and included Ani-nouto thus:
In search of Number Nine, Ani Nouto, Drastic my Anime Blog, Furu Anime Panikku, Ogiue Maniax, That’s Not Kanon, Mega Megane Moe and Far away no where are editorial blogs having a strong view on things …
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Oh Ubu
Administrivia
E-mail mystery
I don't know what happened, but apparently I did something to my readers: there was no e-mail recently, just astroturfing spam. Is everyone insulted by something, or other reason? Number of links continues to grow though.
Ecchi-nouto
I was under impression that AB's TOS prohibited touching porn, but …
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Zyl considers examples of moving blog domains and pathnames. I hate when people move frivolously, because it breaks permalinks. Of course, sometimes it cannot be helped (I count the case of provider for ikimashou.net forgetting to renew it as "frivolous" (also, "idiotic")). From this point of view, however, Hinano …
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Seen today:
I always laugh whenever people try to do a semantic or syntactic approach to defining those Japanese age/gender-based genres. Shounen series have fighting! Shoujo has boys and kissing! Josei is mature! Seinen has lots of sex and violence! These can get really asinine when people start thinking …
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