Fear and Loathing in the Blogosphere – Aniblog Tourney Goes Down for the Count

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I guess the organizing crew of the Aniblog Tourney finally figured out that the whole thing was turning into not much else than the Battle of the Botters, with little birds singing left and right about the grand injustice going on behind the scenes. Now, I have a story with more delicious details to share, but let’s save that for some other time. Here’s the announcement for those who don’t feel like clicking themselves away from this wonderful site of mine:
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Manipulation and Trickery? Cloudy With a Chance of Mud – AniBlog Drama Continues

With the ABT crew dealing with drama popping up left and right like some horribly twisted version of Whack-a-Mole, the thrill ride has only began for the rest of us. I’ve had disappointingly little time to follow the whole shebang myself, but as I happened to make a stroll, something caught my little eye
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Jinx! 101 – Revisiting The Concept of Dynamic and Static Blog Content

Pic unrelated.

Now that I am finished with most of the overhaul on Jinx! I think it’s about time to parrot tj_han a bit, and reintroduce the concept of dynamic and static content in blogging. Over the years I’ve grown accustomed to thinking everybody is familiar with the concept, but a recent comment woke me up to the reality – it’s been a long time since these terms were introduced by tj_han on RIUVA, and a lot of people have been coming and going since then.
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Finally, the Meta Budges: AniBloggers Choice Anime Awards

After about two years of nothing at all happening in within the aniblogosphere meta, someone finally decided to pull a community attempt. I can only hail this development, though from the looks of it there won’t be too much drama around to be had. I can only think back to the good ol’ winter 2009-2010 and the times of The Otaku Elimination Game and AniBlog Tourney, both having provided some S-tier lulz and dramaz. Oh well, I guess this will do until Scamp gets another whirlpool of nerd tears going.

Finncon/Animecon ’11 and Other Stories – All Hail the Blogger Master Race

For starters, the above image should say everything there was to FC/AC that was held in Turku last weekend. A quick hearsay from other bloggers is telling the same tale – there wasn’t actually that much to write about the event though meta happenings were plentiful. But since I’m such a nice guy, I might as well give the con a couple lines before we get to the juicy bits.
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