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Since blogging is a complete new world to me there’s several things happening to me i would never be aware of before. I was collecting figure, watching animes and reading mangas for a long time before my blog started. But the websites i visited according to those hobbies were very limited in numbers and i wouldn’t never post anything on them or almost anything. I didn’t felt the need to talk to other people visiting those website mainly because there was impersonal and didn’t belong to one person. The blogosphere was completely unknown to me. |
But now that i’m a part of it i had to push myself forward to visit those blogs. After all i quickly discovered that most of the time readers also have their own blog and so the best way for me to “advertise” myself was to visit those blogs and leave a comment on them.
And then i started to search blogs about animes and figures either in French or English.
What was most surprising is that i felt that almost everybody knew each other and many times a part of the Blogroll i checked contained several entries i already seen several times.
Which lead me to think that the blogosphere is actually an amount of people who know each other and communicate about their passions using blogs. It’s like an decentralized network who live and grow by itself, naturally.
This was an enormous surprise to me really 
Now i closely follow 28 blogs i choose based on many criteria i’ll keep to myself.
I also discovered how hard it could be to read and comments on every blogs i follow and how embarrassed i feel sometimes because i’m late.
You know when i read a post, i read it completely and if i want to answer i do a complete answer as possible.
If i don’t answer it’s often because i don’t know what to say or because it don’t interest me (it happens)
But those takes times and i also have to think about adding contents to my own blog and, of course, answering my own comments. This is important since it’s the major connection i have with my readers.
For now i managed to read everything and answer to all the posts i wanted to answer but i wonder if that’s the case for you as well ?
So what’s your daily blogs job ? Do you check rss feeds every morning / evening ?
How many blogs are your actively following ?
Tell me everything, no judgement here 
Haha well you have to be the editor, promoting, photographer, designer …lots of roles for a blog to work
I try to read before i start work early in the morning. My work starts around eight and I reach the office about 6.30 am and that is when i’ll reply to comments or catch up on other people post!! Active blogs wise, a good 40 plus or so. And a second round of replys and commenting in the evening!
There are times I have no idea on the background story of figures or character (gomen i mainly know mecha stuff!!) but I do appreciate the photography aspect
at least I can comment on that. But as for subject matter that I can’t really relate to or its too complex i’ll probably just read the post and skip commenting!!
I realize now how many aspect is involved to maintain a blog.
I could never go early in the morning to my job and do some blogger stuffs. I love to sleep way to much.
Well i try to do some on my launch break but it’s not always possible.
For now i don’t add blogs to my follow list (sorry !!!) because i don’t want to neglect the blogs i’m currently following.
Hard hard indeed.
I used to follow many blogs closely until recently due to my internet limit… now I have to clamp down on my internet usage so I don’t get to check out other blogs as often
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That’s another problem … Is this because of “parental” restrictions ? I just wonder what kind of reason cause you to limit your connection time.
Nah… It’s cus I’m now studying overseas and the internet is super expensive >.<
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So there’s a place where internet is more expensive than Belgium ?? Wooo big news. :p
When I started to follow other blogs, I had trouble keeping up with all of the posts so I downloaded an RSS reader and subscribed to all of their feeds. I have two monitors and I keep the RSS reader open on one of them all the time. This way, whenever I’m on the computer I will know whenever someone has made a new blog post.
As for finding time to write on my own blog, I usually leave it all to the weekend. I’ll write a few posts on Saturday or Sunday and then post one every few days so they’re spaced out a bit.
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I quickly understood i would need a good RSS readers to keep tracks on updates and since i’m on Mac their Mail application got a nice and easy to use RSS readers that work alongside with my mail address.
Very useful to me ^^
I could never write posts like you do because writing is a matter of feeling to me and feeling is not something i can control.
Generally i have an idea for a post while doing something else and i start to write rapidly after having the idea.
The whole process of adding a new post come in one straight line to me.
Thanks for wording that for me, that’s exactly it.
Nowadays the thought’s been crossing my mind; ‘this blogging stuff really takes a long time to settle huh’, but I never put it into perspective. It is like a job, with how much time we spend writing posts and going about people’s sites. The blogosphere is a machine that will eternally perpetuate without an individual. Everyone gets on with their blogs, whether or not you’re watching. The blogosphere’s a microcosm, and I kind of feel sad about that. Oh well, it’s not too bad. I do enjoy myself.
I don’t spend too much time in it everyday or else I wouldn’t be able to do anything else, but I try to get all my rounds done on a day I post. After posting I’m already in the blog-work mood, so.
I guess you could have putted this thought in a much more detailed and sophisticated way than me
I would’ve loved to read it anyway.
I use to say even if a register on a social network (like Facebook) i stop using it after few weeks and it’s true.
Not that i don’t like social network but they seem a bit pointless to me.
It’s a bit of a paradox since my blog is my way of registering in the blogger social network
But still i don’t feel forced to be a part of it and i’m free to built it in my own ways rather than using the tools rigidly offered to me.
Blogging is a my way of socializing on internet, i guess.
Hmm… for me, I guess I’ll try to follow as closely as possible. But due to the nature of my job, sometimes, I can get too busy and didn’t even have the chance to update my blog, reply comments (though I try to do it always) and let alone leaving comments on other blogs. But I do try to make an effort by stealing some time from my work and also during wee hours (that’s why I have panda eyes but mostly due to work). I could even work for 28 hours without sleep during crunch time. As I’m not required to go on business trip lately, I can spare a bit more time on the internet.
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It happened to me to work for more than 30 hours straight but not recently, at least not since i started this blog.
What i absolutely don’t do is to reduce sleeping time to catch up with posts to read and comments to leave.
I’m a useless larva when i lack of sleep and it’s very uncomfortable.
Well sometimes i do but only when i don’t want to stop playing a cool game
Lol. Welcome to THE PHASE!!!
http://anime3r.blogspot.com/2009/10/phase.html
Hmm… Ok, Maybe you are not at The Phase yet. But it sounded similar. :p
That moment when you feel that blogging becomes somewhat of a chore.
“I also discovered how hard it could be to read and comments on every blogs i follow and how embarrassed i feel sometimes because i’m late.”
That’s why I like to keep my blogroll links low. According to the number of blogs I can manage to follow. I don’t go around the blogosphere everyday too. Which limits the numbers of blog I follow even more.
As for being late, I actually enjoy reading and commenting on late posts. Not to sound like a pimp, but I enjoy the one to one interaction after all the other commentators have said what they want to say.
And sometimes, I’m just busy. Or Lazy. Lol.
“If i don’t answer it’s often because i don’t know what to say or because it don’t interest me ”
I try and would prefer to avoid spam-like posts like “Wow… Nice read!” “Cool picture!” etc. etc. But sometimes I just want to let the writer to know that it indeed is a nice post and I’ve actually have nothing else to say. Lol.
This trait of mine becomes especially obvious with high traffic sites. I’ve got this stupid thing where if I post things like “Great post!” in a high traffic site, I’d just feel like I’m trying to cash in on the traffic hits. My stupid man-pride crap doesn’t sit well with that. Pffftt…
Lol. I had noooo idea this comment was going to turn into a rant. -.-”
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I wonder if i should do a full post to answer everybody’s comments seeing your own or continue replying the normal way …
Lol no never heard about this PHASE but i’m not into it ^^
For now i think my blog list is the maximum i can follow and i mean “follow” according to my own standards.
Which saddens me a bit because i often come around new blogs who seem very interesting to me but …. have to limit myself.
I’m not old enough to feel the “comment on late post” sensation but i guess it can be cool
Myself when i’m visiting an old post i get intimidated by all the comments already there … i know it sounds stupid but i just can’t post anything.
And yeah i also try to avoid short and meaningless comment like those you describe. If you see me doing such a post, send me an email and tell me i’m an idiot
Lol yeah it sounds like a rant but why don’t you use this to write a next post of yours
“If you see me doing such a post, send me an email and tell me i’m an idiot
”
Lol. Your posts are always welcomed.
And I wont be using this to write a post. I tend to write better at people’s comments than when I am doing a post of my own. Lol.
The irony…
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I’m grateful to be welcomed like this everywhere but that doesn’t mean you should be lax on me when i do some poorly written comments XD
And of course you own comments are warmly welcomed here because they are often the biggest ones i receive ^^
i went through the same discovery process when i started my blog too. its very time consuming to keep track of the folks on my blog roll, i think i have over 50 now. i try to check them all at 1-2 times a day. im a pretty slow reader and processor of information lol XD also slow to type up comments so you can image it takes me hours most of the time ^^;; i do skip commenting sometimes, not out of disrespect but just because i dont know what to write.
it is almost like a full time job just to keep track, let alone creating content for your own blog! if i were to get a job and be away from the PC for 8hr+ a day, i would never be able to stay up to date or be active T_T so im enjoying the fun now while i still can Lol
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Wow 50 ! And i consider myself to be a fast reader and a i don’t encounter notable difficulties in writing, but still with my 28 blogs i felt overwhelmed a few times already.
Well i guess my problem is i have several other activities i like to perform, gaming and watching anime are the top 2 but there’s also others.
Sometimes i don’t read new posts only by laziness lol, yeah i’m a huuuuuuuuge sleep lover
Lol yeah clearly your free time melt away like butter in a desert :p I used to play lot lot more while studying.
Enjoy it fully while you still can
It doesn’t bother me if people are “late” to comment on a post. Some people treat their blog as a fast-paced news site where things become “old” rather quickly, but I try to make everything I post worth reading. If someone posts a comment on an older post, I’m just glad that they’ve actually looked around to find it. I think that, for most good blogs, it’s never too late to leave a comment.
I agree with you that leaving comments on lots of blogs is a great way to advertise your own, and I’ve always appreciated that you leave meaningful comments. I’ve had a fair few people comment on my blog with something very simple, that clearly has no purpose other than to create a little link to their own site. With some of my posts I hope to inspire some sort of discussion, but even so I would rather get less comments from people who have actually read my posts than lots of comments by people just promoting themselves.
I guess what I’m saying is, thank you for actually taking the time to read other peoples’ blogs and helping them grow as well as yourself. Like you say, certain blogospheres can be like a community. Communities only grow when everyone helps each other out, and even though there are plenty of people in the anime blogosphere who are only out to make their own name big, there are plenty of people like you doing things the right way. ^^
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I have this phobia of being late so when i get to read an old post i feel embarrassed to leave a comment on it
It’s a nonsense but i’m filled with weirdness ^^
What i realized when leaving comment around at my beginning is that if the blog creator like your own, you don’t have to ask for a link / banner exchange and almost every blog i follow added me spontaneously and i thanks them.
Well of course you can ask me for a banner exchange, i’ll be delighted to answer if your blog interest me ^^
When i have something to say, most of the time it means i can say a LOT.
You have no idea how much i must limit the length of my comment or it would be as long as the original post. (ME2 for instance ^^)
But yeah when a comment is leaved only to say “Hey come on read my own blog please, i beg you” It’s merely advertising and some commercial behavior.
I honestly tell to everyone here if you spot me doing this one day you have the obligation to send me an email to scold me ^^
I love this community, yeah and i’m proud to be a member ^^
I don’t plan on going big and mainly because i won’t to stay close to every reader as possible. I don’t want to let a comment nonreplied for instance just because i don’t have enough time to do it.
It may turn to be impossible in the future … we’ll see ^^
I have around 40 blogs in my RSS reader but I do not look at all of them at once.
I usually visit blogs in alphabetical order, about 10 blogs a day, 3-4 days a week (sounds confusing). Each round I’ll be able to generate only a few proper comments. I just want to say that you should take it easy, don’t worry! ^_^
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That’s methodical ^^ I’m way to deorganized to work the same way lol
I’m not stressed for now and it goes quite smoothly
I have high standards concerning my behavior on internet ^^
Have noticed too that many blogs and bloggers somehow often for small clusters of people knowing or following each other more closely which are more loosely interconnected to other clusters. Sort of like a stand-alone complex to use the GITS term. ^^
Keeping up with other people’s blogs and post comments and juggling your own blog can be a challenge, certainly if you have a career, other hobbies or aspects of your anime passion that take up your time as well.
Used to visit the blog pages manually before but Google Reader saved my skin to keep up with most blogs through rss, allows me to filter and decide which entries to read.
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Talking about GITS just made me want to watch everything related again
Love that ^^
Well i feel i entered this kind of blogs clustering when almost everybody know each others.
What is cool is that very specific blogs in term of content get acquainted with blogger who are not really in this kind if stuff.
That helps to discover new things, worlds and passions
Well clearly i have a job and several other things i like to do. Of course those other activities are related to my blog so i found my inspiration in them.
I don’t go out very often too that helps to keep a blog alive
I follow a bunch of blogs actively… It is a lot of time, both making posts and reading posts. It’s a lot of fun though and I love reading blogs. ^ ^
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That what’s important in blogging i guess : FUN !
Without the fun no way i could spend few hours building a post or reading the huge amount of interesting contents posted by bloggers everyday.
well I follow many things not only gundam,anime,manga,game,figures so I read many blog and open them every 2-3 days
most likely I follow around 40 blogs
some blogger make post daily like chubby some every 2-3 days some every week or even months so I have no problem follow many blog @_@ since my own blog is random lol
I guess the numbers of things you have an interest in also increase the amount of blog you can potentially follow.
I always wondered how you can be so active
simple I active because I rarely go outside lol
well I open 15 blog a day and left comments and another 15 the day after lol
I don’t really use RSS that much
I feel totally concerned by what you developed here.
Indeed, blogger is almost a full time job for me… as much for writing posts as to visit blogs. And i accumulate delays quickly since my RSS reading list contain more than 40 blogs and three-quarters of them are in english. Which take me even more time since i’m kinda slow when it comes to crite and read in that language. Sometimes i don’t understand everything and i have to so some vocabulary researches.
Because just like you, i like to read the whole post by respect to the person who wrote it.
I would be way too ashamed to leave a 3 words sentence (like “good review”) who at the end has nothing to do about the treated subject.
Of course, sometimes it happen i don’t have anything to say and i prevent myself for posting anything. ^^
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I admire your blog, sincerely. How much you prepare and stage your figures… how many photos you take to be certain to have great ones, texts, translations …
And you follow that many blogs over the already large amount of work you have with your own. Wow!
But you’re passionate and i feel it with everything i see or read from you.
It’s very important to feel your work and to be happy with it, a blog just can’t be maintained without a large amount of passion.
I follow a ton of blogs myself and I try my best to comment on stuff that I love or have opinions on. Like yourself, if I don’t know enough of the subject matter or if I simply have nothing to say, I refrain from commenting
Blogging is pretty tough I’d say. I had a previous attempt at my older blog and it was tough to consistently produce content what with life and all. So far with my new blog, I’ve been maintaining it at a steady pace and the growth has been pretty encouraging so I hope to continue for as long as I can
I guess we all agree to this, don’t comment when you have nothing to say
What’s important to me is to not force yourself to produce content, well of course if you don’t have any new contents for months, questions must be raised.
I have no plan or schedule whatsoever about adding content, i post when i feel to.
I hope it will goes well with your new blog
Nice random picture. I’m never embarassed to be late personnally (’cause I’m ALWAYS late
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I don’t like rss feed. It’s useful only if you are sure an article will interest you otherwise I’ll check it rapidly and not answer it. If I decide to go reading a blog, it’s because I want to read something and answer it.
I spend a lot of time on my own blog to prepare review above all. I really don’t have lots of time. Then, I’ll go to work now
Lol thanks, amazing what you can find with few keywords on google
Mmm always late … remind me Trent Lane in Daria.
I use RSS to be aware when a new posts is available, without it i was afraid to miss something. Ok it put a pressure on my shoulder when i see unread posts accumulating
Indeed you have very great reviews and i always thought it must take you a lot of time to write them.
I know the feeling of not knowing what to write in the comments.
I should probably start using one of those RSS readers, but when I used to use it I would never check up on it.
Currently I keep a list of blogs I want to check daily in my Blogroll and maybe set aside some time to quickly see what’s new. I usually read all the posts I’m interested in, go away for a day or so, then come back and try to comment.
And then in WordPress dashboard I check out the “Tag Surfer” and “My Comments” sections maybe twice a week.
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Since my RSS readers is also my mail applications now way i would miss out to check on it
At the beginning i checked each blogs i added in my blogroll once a day but i wasn’t very efficient that way.
Of course some day i don’t want to worry about my blog and do completely something else ^^
It is as you say.
At the beginning I was checking them by myself. Now I have to use an RSS reader for that cause the page number is growing
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When you follow 5 blogs it’s ok to manually check them but when i reached 10 … it was totally unpractical
I follow about 10 blogs check them each morning or afternoon, but i always check people who comment on my stuff seeing what they blog too meeting more friends through that.
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It’s not easy to limit myself from wandering around other blog. But i prefer to restrain the number of blogs i follow, i don’t want to visit a blog and dropping it right after just because i don’t have enough free time.
I think its harder when you read and write blogs that arent in your mother tongue (my case). Lol. I try to keep updated my RSS feed and comment on them almost every couple of days.. I find complicated to post also everyday, so I do it every two day basis..
Well it’s my case as well. My mother tongue is French ^^ What’s yours actually ? (curiosity)
Checking everyday blogs and such is clearly impossible, i have other activities i want to dedicate times. Friday evening and Saturday are the best days for me to do blogging usual stuffs.
Sunday i just want to sleep
Blogging definitely is a full time job. After I changed gears and put blogging to a lower priority, I’ve freed up a lot of time for myself.
It’s very difficult to blog when a lot of your content consists of spending hours and hours doing art, posting photos, and then writing about it. It’s just so time consuming!
I find it easier to simply write stuff, but well, I don’t know if I really have all that much to write about.
Since I’ve eased off the blogging, my RSS feed is accumulating quite the backlog! But still, I feel that it’s necessary for me to read continue to catch up with my friends on the blogging network from time to time, so that I know how they’re doing.
It is very interesting that while we all have our own blogs, it’s a joined community. I like that quite a bit. Some of my blogger friends whom I know in real life, tell me news they’ve heard once in a while about some bloggers here and there, and it’s like “woah really!?” news goes around fast, and it’s interesting to hear how someone from halfway across the world is being talked about.
I’ve found that time consuming-wise, maintaining your blog (commenting replies) and reading friends’ blogs take up a lot of time, but it’s always fun to do!
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I don’t put my blog at a too high priority, i have some game to play with and friends to talk to
Fortunately for me i don’t do arts at all, only writings and i try to remain short. In fact what took me the most time is layout and pictures i add to illustrate.
Working with picture is very time consuming …. resizing, adding, tags, label … ect …
Of course the fun i have worth the time it needs to manage this blog
Thanks for this comment ^^
Hahah, yeah I know how you feel. Half of my blogging I wouldn’t really consider to be the posting part, but the design & commenting part. I really wanna let others know, “thank you for looking at my blog,” and “your blog is pretty friggin sweet too.” People feel like doing what they want these days, and when someone spends time out of their day to comment on something me or a co-writer does, it really makes me feel happy ;D
Being praised by other bloggers is very rewarding
Of course i do this blog for myself but also for you my fellow readers 
I’m glad to count you among them ^^