"Courage and perseverance are important if one is to run anything resembling a news organization...the folks at theOtaku.com have demonstrated themselves to have ample quantities of both."
~ TCJ (The Comics Journal)
"A couple years of experience in the Otaku circle have taught me at least one good lesson--to trust Adam."
~ myO member
"Adam is actually a decently accomplished troll."
~ Allamorph
"The scale of Adam's cunning genius is truly frightening."
~ TimeChaser
I've been experimenting with caffeine to help my energy/power levels. This comes with the side effect of crashes to the like that I haven't experienced before. Should be interesting to see how it all evolves.
A few of you know that last year a friend of mine entrusted me with his website. The website, Advanced Anime, is almost as old as theOtaku and has a small but passionate community.
In 2011 I didn't do as much with theOtaku as I would have liked. But I was less fair to AA where I did literally nothing, disappointing their community who see the site as dying. But I don't blame myself too much, I look at AA and see a site that I don't personally like, so incremental updates are out of the question. I'd rather redo the entire thing with a bold and simple vision - I don't want another complicated site like theOtaku.
Ideally I can create a situation where theOtaku and AA complement each other and share traffic. I can imagine theO's top members helping AA and AA's top members helping theO. There are some things from a content and business perspective that a strong Future AA could do that theO couldn't and vice-versa.
I don't know how things will shake out but it should be a fun adventure for everyone.
What do you think of how comments were handled on myOtaku? Some people have been asking for their return, specifically how they pop up in a new browser window.
Click here to see some examples
I wonder...
"There's a storm coming, Mr. Bossman...you and your friends better batten down the hatches. Because when it hits, you're all going to wonder how you ever thought you could ever live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."
If we were to make a brother site to theOtaku.com, also about anime, what kind of things would you like to see there that we don't offer here?
What type of anime related things do you do on other websites that you wish we had on theOtaku?
Here are some examples:
-- More hardcore news, reviews
-- MyAnimeList type service
-- Encyclopedia
-- Scans
-- Avatars
-- Cosplay
-- Etc.
GO!
