Channel Frederator Blog

It’s hard to believe that only two months have passed since I quietly let our blog readers know we were experimenting with a social network for cartoons, Channel Frederator RAW. I asked a few of you to sign up so we could have 100 members and make the place robust enough that we could see if it was going to have legs.

Well, as usual, you took me up on the offer through yesterday we had about 200 members. So, I figured it was time to move out of tryouts and open on Broadway. Today I invited a few of our closest friends –filmmakers, artists, and fans– from across the world to join. (You can check out some of their cool icons above.) As of five minutes ago we’d increased our membership over 35%, to over 270, adding more every hour. Thanks everyone.

I’m hoping that this increase will only make the experience richer. More discussion, more art and video, more meet-ups. Altogether more camaraderie in the art form we all dedicate our lives too.

A special thanks is due to our original 100 intrepid members. Thanks folks for making this possible for everyone else.

And another inspirational thanks to Zadi and Steve from Jetset who pointed the way with their Mix site, and to my Next New Networks partner Tim Shey who actually set RAW up in the first place. Without you guys there would be no Channel Frederator RAW.

As always, let me know if there’s anything we can do to improve the experience.