Totally Serious Business
In spirit of the TAF that’s running this week, here’s some SRSBZNS nonsense. This is the type of stuff that I missed writing for college courses because my school was fairly badass about cracking down on this kind of BS.
In BS terms, these are more like mission statements. Please don’t take them seriously, but maybe it’ll serve as a template for someone, or as a platform for further discussion. In fact if I didn’t think this was the case, I’d prefer if you forget this momentary inspired-by-some-book-I’m-reading lapse of judgment.
Goal: To improve the state of the meta-communicative environment of the English-language, modern “popular Japanese visual cultural” community:
- So I need to spend less time educating myself and educating others (ie., more time enjoying the culture.)
- To increase the extent, intensity, depth, and cycle rate of the cultural feedback cycle (ie., the Mobius strip concept) in creativity and commercialization of creativity (ie., availability of said things).
- To increase the size of the fan base, and to increase the number (mapped to %) of the meaningful relationships within and in external to the fan base.
- To enable more people to do the same.
With any particular mission, it might be good to set various levels of goals. Just some examples broken down by type:
Consumer and marketing
- Improve quality of news reporting, measured by metrics such as: latency, comprehensiveness, veracity, etc
- Improve the ease of obtaining information: lowering costs, increasing visibility, ease of use, etc.
- Improve the sustainability of the medium (eg., anime, delivery platforms, marketing, retail, etc.)
- Improve the feedback mechanism for companies from their clients (eg., industry blogging and social networking, con presence, etc)
Legal and business
- Lower costs of international transaction in this category of commerce (eg., fewer lawsuits)
- Increase the level of education and awareness in the relevant business practices (increase networking between businesses)
- Standardizing and streamlining relevant business practices (eg. contract review in translation, reducing the level of middlemen in international transactions, etc).
- Greater transparency and information sharing to encourage transactions that further creative endeavors (add incentive for relevant information sharing between different entities)
- Foster a legal and commercial environment that truly rewards, and not punish, creativity (improve employee education, quality of life; improve and streamline fan/consumer interfaces)
Empowering the culture from within and form positive external relationships
- Increase educational opportunities (animation schools?)
- Improve the quality of conventions to the public (improve convention management, more press)
- Improve the quality of video and theatrical programming (insert Tyrenol rent)
- Increase the quantity and quality of cultural output (more art gallery douchbags, more organization within academia, increase mainstream interest)
- Improve and generate academic discourse (more academic pubs, more writers, more research)
- Increase benefits and wages for individual creators (lower costs of production, less risk in business and in law, more legal protection for creators, etc)
tl;dr: Neds moar BLAM.