Yeah, I’m out of ideas on what to blog about next. So here’s another advertisement, this time for a blogger sempai and one of the inspirations for me to start my own blog.

Impz, the owner of THAT Anime Blog (the backronym for “THAT” is still under debate), is looking for a new blogger to add to the team. Details available through the link, but in summary, as long as you’re prolific (two or three entries a week, and I would assume that these entries be at least somewhat substantial), and can communicate passably well in English, you stand a good chance of being chosen. No prior experience is needed, and even if you already have another blog, as long as your entries to THAT are unique (ie no copy-and-pasting wholesale), it’s perfectly fine.

To enter, send an entry, any entry, that is the sort of thing you will blog about, to their GMail address (ie @gmail.com), username thatblog. (Yes, I’m trying this out to avoid the usual spambots, even though my own GMail experience shows that it’s pretty good at eating spam.) The closing deadline is 30th March 2007 12:00am GMT+8 (basically midnight Singapore time, 4pm/1600h London time, 11am/1100h EST, 8am/0800h PST, going backwards in time without the aid of a flux capacitor). It’s unsure whether he means that 11:59pm/2359h on the 29th of March is the last minute, or if 11:59pm/2359h on the 30th of March is, but to be safe, send it in earlier. Screenshots or other pictures for use in blogging are recommended. After all the entries are collected, they will be posted up, and the one which gets the most hits/comments, and passes the approval of the other existing team members, will be the winner.

If you’d like a source of images (the vast majority of which is non-worksafe, but there are several gems in there), I recommend the tag-searchable Sagubooru, which is the now-defunct Danbooru’s somewhat self-proclaimed official successor. (No guarantees on how long its bandwidth will hold out.) Grabbing screencaps of your own will obviously enhance how much control you have over the pictures, but sources will probably be the problem then.

Basically, I think it’s a good way to start in blogging anime if you’d rather not go through the hassle of maintaining your own blog. I’d advise that basic knowledge of HTML (linking and posting pictures and bold/italics) will be very helpful, if only so you know how to prettify your entries. (XHTML compliance is not really that hard to achieve, until you get to more complex stuff like aligning images and text.)

You can probably find Impz in #AnimeBlogger@IRCHighway, around evenings and such Singapore time. He does hold the record for most smilies so far, as well as a reputation for liking green-haired girls and being a trap. (Don’t look at me, I haven’t a clue.)

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