So what’s this all about you might ask!? It’s a blog, nothing fancy just a plain simple Wordpress blog that I visually and functionally edited to my liking. The idea, plain and simple, is to integrate everyone that’s working on Shinohan a bit more into the actual idea behind Shinohan.
Sean and me created Shinohan as an experiment to see what we could accomplish with some of the ideas him and me had. As we are both respectively working in fields that closely relate to the work each of us are doing on Shinohan it was just an experiment. The first thing we considered obviously is how much time and money we would able to invest for this project. Obviously this was more a time issue than a question of money, yet money is of course always a part of everything, if it wasn’t the Internet would be advertising free and quite frankly also pretty damn boring.
When we started nearly a year ago, we only wanted to try out some designs and parallel experiment with Youtube to integrate it into our Site. Now we never really got around to do the latter and just kept on concentrating on how to further re-create the site. After a certain amount of time I decided that I want to keep Shinohan the way it is, just a portal for people interested in video games for consoles and handhelds, as I have absolutely no interest in PC games, in fact I am a Mac user (yes I got an Apple Macbook and I love it!), so much for that. Over the course of the past year we actually managed to garner a certain amount of regular visitors now, which we sadly still done treat and serve properly. Our main issue is that we do not have the amount of content on the site we would like to have, which break down into two problems, the significantly bigger one would be time. Even if we would be getting the amount of content we would like to have, we still need to implement it, which is quite a time consuming endeavor in itself. We have three main writers, one designer, one editor and me (yes I don’t have a fixed purpose – I am like the ‘do whatever is necessary bitch’. Sarfaraz, one of our writers, who is also a translator at the same time, is in charge of our Famitsu WAVE DVD section which we started with the May issue, and we are very proud to say that our Famitsu Wave DVD translations are reaching a lot of people who are hopefully enjoying it. Now here’s the other problem, we would like to do so much more with the content we have, for example we would like to integrate the translations directly into the videos (e.g. subtitles), yet unfortunately none of us have the experience, nor the know how and, again, least of all the time to be able to even learn it.
We are working on all of those current issues and hope to get them all sorted out eventually. The good thing, contrary to what everyone seems to believe, is that we are not a company – meaning we don’t have any targets we have to reach under any given circumstances, we have all the freedom we want and are just driven by our own joy to keep the site growing. Of course we’d like to see Shinohan going to the top, but I am not as delusional to believe that this is going to happen over night. We don’t have millions of dollars backing us up in the background, everything that is happening on the site that requires payment comes directly out of our own pockets as we enjoy paying the money for something we like to believe in and work with. And just while I am at the point of clearing up certain things… I am NOT a girl, I don’t care where you live and what kind of a name you believe Sascha is, I am a guy! Alright, just wanted to get that off my chest, I am sick of applications addressing me as Mrs. Zaman, Mrs. for fucks sake!!! ← not just female but also married – I am NEITHER! I am not single, but I am sure not married! The way I am starting to drift off is proof enough that I’ve written way too much already, so I am going to cut it off right here and now!
I am sure I’ll be writing another post within the next couple of days, but I can’t promise that – the latest I will post though will be exactly seven days of my last entry. You should keep on checking back every now and so often though, as I am not the only one who is going to be blogging here.
So long!
Sascha
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