Hung made me the above graphic as an official certification of my unlimited power over at Anime Nano. OK, I lied. I Photochopped it myself — check out that glass effect. And I’m more of a slave than a boss…
A few months back, I noticed that new blogs only got added to Anime Nano about once every month or so. I emailed Hung and asked if he’d like some help clearing the queue out every week; looking back, he clearly used some kind of Jedi mind trick on me. Moreover, these aren’t the droids we’re looking for. So Hung asked for some time to whip the back-end interface into shape and after Anime Nano had lost enough pounds to date me, I got in on the first date (2/15). That’s right, I’m now in charge of deciding who gets in to Anime Nano. Now that I am a total pimp, here are a few tips to help you score with Anime Nano:
- Pay attention to the details: The application form is short, so please fill in all fields correctly. I don’t have the power or desire to edit any fields. If you put in an incorrect RSS address or URL, your entry is immediately rejected.
- Be mature and friendly: Your entry will be immediately rejected if your blog is too young (jailbait!) or your RSS feed sucks (RSS 2.0 or a Feedburner feed are the best).
- Bring flowers: Bring flowers, preferably nanoflowers.
- Don’t talk too much about yourself: Keep your focus on “anime, manga, or Japanese culture in general.”
- Be persistent: If you don’t get in, ask why. Then, try again. Hung told me that Anime Nano operates on the “you gotta want it” principle.
Anyways, I’m glad to be helping out, and I think Anime Nano is a great service. I know some people feel that aggregators are not as useful with great feed readers popping up everywhere, but sites like Anime Nano are wonderful for discovering new anime blogs (especially now that it should be easier to get listed). Although I’d like to see the ability to filter out feeds I don’t like, Anime Nano can help readers step back and see the big picture. And for those who say that Anime Nano gets too clogged with n00bs posting about n00by stuff: guess what, anime blogs die go on hiatus all the time. So in short, I love Anime Nano and I think Anime Nano loves me too, even though I am just the dirty mistress.
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Kabitzin – who has written 1971 posts on Sea Slugs! Anime Blog.
One of the founders of Sea Slugs, I handle most of the blog admin tasks while wearing my I AM BOSS shirt. I like my action series well choreographed, and my romance series extra trashy. I also have a soft spot for puns.
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OMG power positions to be feared.
I like long walks on the beach in search for cliched lovcom moments and little girls tripping onto their faces in cute ways…
Did we know each other as kids?
God, I hope you didn’t.
BTW, Atom is far better than RSS 2.
Some worm targetting the WP 2.7 wp-atom.php exploit caused me some grief over at Hontou Ni Taihen Desu recently – yes, I’m the admin even though Stripey is an engineer and I’m a humanities student ;(
Wow, you got hit with that? Hopefully these hax will be less successful with the auto-update features of 2.7+, and I believe that vulnerability was fixed in 2.7.1 but that was a pretty crappy security hole.
As I have said before: Delegation FTW!
EDIT: Power Level?! I want mine to be pretty high. I’m thinkin’ at least OVER 9000.
Let’s see if this gets me a higher power level.
Edit: SWEET!
D00d, stop making me screw around with the database to update your email addresses!
Just make it over 9000 already if you’re messing with the database…
Uh Oh… Future anime bloggers beware!!!
The third point should be changed to “Bring presents/bribes” lol.
But no seriously congrats are in order.
I only have MACROflowers
first you get de sugar, then you get de admin powers, then you get de women. i see how it goes. ;P
congrats man! i probably owe you a personal thanks too.
VEGETA!
Congrats.
Also, time to swing that bigger e-peen around. :p
WHAT DOES THE SCOUTER SAY ABOUT HIS E-PEEN’S POWER LEVEL?
I feel like saying “Congrats”, but also saying “You’re gonna have to carry all that weight”.
OHHH!!! THATS WAS ONE OF THIS YEAR’S ONE-FIVE-NINE DATES!!! (2/15/09) It must be fate! :love:
d-d-d-d-d-does that mean that I can haz blog nao?
:4