BloggersBase Blog of the Month: Cartoon Leap!

Cartoon Leap was featured in BloggersBase Newsletter for September as Featured Blogger of the month. They asked me a couple of questions regarding my activities on BloggerBase and all answers were published in the newsletter.

BloggersBase provides a discovery platform for bloggers, user-generate-content and readers alike. This platform takes the form of an online magazine spanning various topics, each implemented as a multi-authored blog, moderated by algorithm-enhanced crowd wisdom. Our magazine introduces a brand new concept of citizen-journalism, using powerful analytics and unique algorithms.

Anime & Manga
Anime & Manga, located under the Hobbies upcoming category has become one of the most popular upcoming blogs. Even though it is one of the newest blogs and currently has only two bloggers contributing to it, it enjoys a very large readership.

Quite a few bloggers are responsible for this meteoric rise of the blog, Toonleap is by far the leader with a staggering amount of 258 posts in just 3 months!!! We have selected him to be BloggersBase user of the month and are proud to present the interview with him:

Q:    How do you approach the process of creating a post? Do you do any research, and if so, where? How do you choose your subject?
A:    I just do all research by visiting newsfeeds, anime websites, otaku sites in japanese and english and different news websites that deals with Japanese background on anime, manga, and otaku. It takes some hours to do an extensive research and sometimes it takes longer if I have to translate Japanese to English…not an easy task. I choose any news that I find interesting and I am sure our readers likes the subjects We blog…at least most of the time.

Q:    What is the feature or aspect that you like the most about BloggersBase?
A:    I like Bloggers Base because users can update the content via email or thru the control panel they offer. Also, you can edit the posts to suit the reader´s taste. I think the technical support staff at BloggerBase are very friendly and they help users in an speedy way. I still have to discover more of BloggerBase but I like what I see now.

Q:    What influenced you to start blogging?
A:    At first, I created Cartoon Leap with one goal in mind…to promote my drawing skills and personal stories. At first I tried very hard but suddenly I found myself blogging about my favorite hobbies like Anime and Manga, then I deal with Japan news and Otaku. At the end, Cartoon Leap became an Anime Blog instead of a personal blog. I want to show my own, personal projects like my own webcomic or Manga and someday perhaps, do my own anime.

Q:    What feature do you feel that is missing from BloggersBase?
A:    Tough question. Well, I did some mistakes before with some posts when I put them in the wrong category and the only way to change it was to contact customer support for that. There should be more freedom to do such a thing. Bloggers can make mistakes and time is essential to correct those mistakes.

Visit BloggerBase´s Anime & Manga Section

Thanks to Adi Weizman for the interview, BloggersBase for publishing Cartoon Leap in their monthly newsletter and finally, thanks to our readers for doing this possible.

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