Like, if you dated and then broke up with Totali, and you liked to comment on aniblogs, wouldn’t that be super awkward?

LIKE, OH EM GEE!!! I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN *PMS’s*!!! :P jk, but that would be Totali awkward! Good thing I’ve never broken up with anyone! btw, that quote made my day…well, it made my day like, 8 days ago, cause my RAM/DDR thing exploded, and I had to get new RAM/DDR (BAAAAAAAAAHHHHH *Ba Dum PSH!!!* *dances on square pad* BA DUM PSSSHH*), but now my H games can play better! YAYNESS!!! Good to have my comp working great again!

@ Owen and CCY: I have the same problem too. Like, when I find a reference I like, I feel like commenting about it, but then I have nothing else to say about the post (ex: Kabi’s Shana posts) or when I just wanna say how much I wanna BONE the main character, but that would make others feel uncomfortable (ex: Totali’s Kodomo no Jikan posts) or how much I wanna comment on the “A. Nigers” but I haven’t watched the series at all cause im too busy/too lazy (ex: Orion’s Moyashimon post)

and like, oh em gee, don’t tell me no one knew about the Schedule-Makin-Playa-Pimp Totali?… this is my first time learning about animenano….I thought it was an mp3 player *BA DUM PSHH!!!* TRY DA POTATO SALAD!!!

LMAO…

“Is that a trackback or you just happy to see me?”

I gave up on the animenano as a community of bloggers and readers a while ago (roughly about 6-9 months ago) simply because of the problems you detailed. But it’s not like I was giving much back anyways. There are only a few blogs at all worth linking to, and funny enough half of them I already know without animenano’s help.

But I think animenano works great (and as an aside, still a good community for bloggers only) simply because I do scan all the blog it syndicates, at least for good microcontent. I did pick up a few good blogs that way. Also, often time a blog I almost never read would post something interesting and I’d pick it up scanning animenano.

One more note on tech blogs: I think the online tech community is HUGE. Seeing /. in its prime is a good example. But unlike the anime community they are much, much more fragmented and the blogging technology really helped it come together. The medium works for them because of size and because of diversity. Plus, much of the content is generated by the bloggers themselves in the tech scene, where as anime bloggers have no reach up the consumer chain beyond a handful of non-PR/marketing industry bloggers, especially when limited to English-language only blogs.

Anyways. I find it ironic that I’m trying to have this discussion on Sea Slugs

I’m always like “Heyyy I know you. So, come here often?”

Wow, smooth operator Totali divulges his internet pick-up line secretzz!

I’m also liking this new category. I like it a lot.