Gun Damage

From Riex (and otou-san):

Team blogs in the otakusphere have survived, up until now, on raw potential, untapped power. The power to post more often than a single author. The power to write from different perspectives, and on a wide range of subjects. But it sometimes reminds me of a long-running shounen series where moments of brilliance are like little islands in an endless sea of filler. What if that show was balls-out awesome, top to bottom?

OH! finally launched and proved they weren’t just sitting around doing nothing all this time. The site is looking nice and stylish, so I eagerly anticipate the flood of articles. I really liked the quote above. I know I sometimes resort to filler-ish posts or subpar posts. Sometimes it’s garbage in garbage out, and other times I’m just lazy. It’s a lot of pressure to be awesome with every post, but I’d like to see more (other) people try.

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From Mike:

This is it, folks: the video you’ve all been waiting for: JPMeyer, Hinano, and DS live in the flesh! This panel is all about how to start an anime blog, with plenty of Q&A from the audience–plus a bonus interview with Omo and the panel three afterwards! Recorded by myself and my erstwhile cameraman, Young Lee, the man with the HD camera. Many thanks to him for providing the equipment.

I just watched the NYAF Anime Blogger Panel video. Great questions, and the interview afterwards was especially interesting. I can relate to MMO downtime, and it’s great that something productive came of those moments in between putting. I was impressed with the video quality, too (since I had to DL the gigantor version after learning that Veoh only shows a 5 minute preview…). I’ve never been to a con or a panel before, so I’m really glad I got a chance to watch the video.

Also, LOL @ Omo being disappointed in the lack of dorama.

Edit: Looks like Mike added a Flash version of the video, so you can watch the whole thing streaming now (and at a pretty good resolution).

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