hontou ni
26Jan/061

blogsuki daisuki

And so we bid an imminent fond farewell to Anime Blog Toshokan and welcome Jason's creation of its new and improved successor, blogsuki, now with its own domain, wider column width, search function and categories.

I trace my first use of an anime blog aggregators to the Elsewhere box in King Matthew of the Kingdom of Kawaii's sidebar. It was a convenient way to see the latest posts without having to check out each site individually and it also generated a huge amount of hits for my own blog. :) However it was limited to displaying 11 or so posts at a time and I didn't discern any archive or search function for it.

Then there was Anime Bloggers: A Daily Anime Review Site which was manually updated. Its listing of anime blog posts operated roughly 2005-07-22 to 2005-08-17 which was unsurprising due to the proliferation of anime blogs making manually updating an ever more tedious and time consuming task in seeking out posts and updating the main site in contrast to the RSS feed aggregator used in Matthew's Elsewhere box.

On 2005-10-22, Jason Miao of Anime on My Mind announced the setting up of Anime Blog Toshokan, an anime blog RSS aggregator to give a wider picture of what's happening in the anime blogging community as well as provide a better resource for English anime blog readers. About a week later Matthew launched a similar resource - the AnimeBlogger.net Antenna (I always think of the hair antennae of anime girls like Lunamaria when I see that). I thought this was an excellent thing and see both RSS aggregators as complementary rather than in competition with each other. There's an element of backup redundancy as well as slightly different populations of anime blog feeding into the two. A great way to quickly discover new posts, new anime blogs and the lastest anime news and goodies. In all, greatly valued resources for my anime habit.

blogsuki... just more to love (title... tagline).
And we loves it!

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  1. Kurogane
    January 26th, 2006 - 15:04

    Yeah, I used to camp in Matt’s site a lot when he had that elsewhere thing.I swear, I must’ve contributed about 20-30 hits per day on his site to refresh :P .

    I didn’t know about Anime Bloggers though, nvr did discover it.

    We really have to thank both Matt and jason for doing such a fine job in setting up this aggregators. Without’em, I don’t think I’ll have even half the hits I have now :) .

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