So I thought I better write a post about it :D! I am involved so it’s probably a good idea. As you know it’s an event for Blogger by Bloggers and we hope to get as many involved as possible. There has been some issues but Impz has addressed those as best as possible. Anywho you can check out some new banners I whipped up and some that Impz made:

I thought i’d shower everyone with some statistics. They aren’t accurate but they give an idea of the numbers involved. I’m sure i’ll be posting on the proper results once they are compiled. Poor Akai is tiredface and doing all the bean counting -.-!

Since the beginning of the awards (somewhere around a month ago) 150+ bloggers have signed up to be part of the nomination process. Most of you who have signed up are running your own blog and I think we only have a couple of cases of multiple authors from one blog signing up (this is ok btw).

We experienced the dramas of the faux DORAMA from the ABC which may or may not have affected the ABA. They are two seperate entities if you didn’t know already. Anywho over the month of nominating we had somewhere in the region of 850+ nomination comments. I think you could probably double that number for the number of actual votes considering most people posted more then one nomination per comment. Heck it could be triple that number.

According to Google apparentely our top search query is Best Manga. I don’t have access to the server stats at the moment but i’ll try get them off Akai for my next ABA post.

The site is based on the brilliant work by Derek Punsalan and his Grid Focus theme. I altered it around a bit and I made most of the graphics on the site as it is now. There are a few changes i’d like to make to it but I’m short on time. I have to finalise the award badges today as well as creating the People’s Choice Award. I’m thinking of a complete site redesign once this year’s event is over. Not to mention I think we will be running an Indie version in a few months.

The one major thing I have gotten out of the Awards are all the new blogs i’ve now seen. It’s amazing how my bookmarks have grown. I DIDN’T KNOW YOU GUYS WERE OUT THERE D:! It’s awesome to see! Reading blogs now takes me ages :P!

It’s kind of cool to be part of the Awards. It’s neat to see a better overview of who is out there in the Anime Blogosphere. As of yet I haven’t seen a very definitive chart or statistical analysis on the numbers of people who publish and those who read. It would be nice if there was some sort of site that could show us the extent of the community.

But anywho, I’ll write up another post once we begin the Voting. Also if anyone wants to have a crack at design ideas for the ABA I’m all ears. :D!

-mellow_bunny