Greetings You All Everybody,
This week's Blog of the Week is coming at you a couple of days late due to the holiday, family gatherings, etc. By the way, if you celebrate this time of year, I hope it's been keen.
Back in February a few days after the season 6 premiere, I was contacted (along with a slew of other LOST bloggers out there) by a fellow who was interested in starting up a new project for his blog. The proposal involved a weekly Q&A series where he would email those of us who agreed to join in two questions about the show. We would then send back our responses and he would post everyone's answers together in one article. The goal would be to, in his words, "...grow together not just as Lost fans or as bloggers, but as friends too". He also added, "I know our opinions differ enough to make the answers interesting to read, but we are also all generally good hearted and, from my experience, very helpful and encouraging of one another".
I loved this approach and thought the idea was fantastic, so of course I agreed to participate. I could already anticipate the fun in reading the thoughts and theories from such a variety of bloggers and fans in the LOST community. Little did I know at the time that it would basically blow up into one of the coolest blogs around. It is my sincere pleasure to introduce you to Chris Kelly's "Stream of Consciousness".
Dubbed "The LOST Blogging Collective", or "LBC", the group initially consisted of roughly 8 different writers, blog authors, and fans, including Chris and myself. Now, in it's 9th week of publication, the LBC has grown past his original goal of 16 members to an astounding 23 members! That's an awesome achievement right there, not to mention all of the work that Chris puts in to the project, from coming up with interesting questions, to sending out the weekly email, to posting all responses (which range from a couple of sentences to a couple of paragraphs per question), and keeping the whole thing pretty much running on a tight schedule from the start.
In addition to the Q&A sessions, Chris serves up a "Weekly Round-Up" where he browses a number of LOST blogs, including those run by LBC members, and adds a highlight of their most recent updates. Again, this is quite an undertaking which has only grown as the Collective has increased size. It's also quite wonderful, as you can pretty much find all of your favorite LOST websites here in a well-organized list that serves as an at-a-glance view of all of the latest posts in one place. Just to give you an idea, the last Round-Up #5 contained over 100 links and in general is starting to remind me of an encyclopedia of sorts. Simply astounding!!!
Oh, but it doesn't stop there, either. Chris posts a "Weekly Website" as well (which served as the inspiration for my own little spotlight) where he provides a more in-depth review of one of his favorite LOST blogs. He has also started a new "Where Are They Now" series. His description states, "In this new segment, I try to quickly recap (in a few paragraphs, or less) the history and current placement of all the main characters - consider this a quick Best Of". This is turning out to be yet another successful idea that he has added to the site.
Did I mention that Chris also writes LOST essays, theories, and even serves up his very own weekly episode recaps and analysis?
One would think that all these LOST updates keeps Chris with his hands full in regards to blogging.
Wrong!
In addition to LOST, Chris posts about other TV shows, music, comics, books, boxing, and more. There was even a recent article on the history of quantum physics which is a highly recommended read. If anything it will improve your understanding of LOST. I've noticed additional "weekly" posts, too, such as his "Weekly Image" and "Weekly Song". In essence, Stream of Consciousness is pretty much a LOST-focused site with a bonus collection of other stuff that Chris finds to be interesting. What's great about that is that I also tend to find what Chris thinks is interesting to be interesting. I believe a good number of you will as well.
Check it out and keep going back, as he is always adding something new and entertaining!
(Actually, with all the updates coupled with the fact the blog is only run by one person, I am starting to wonder if Chris has not been turning the donkey wheel and doing a bit of time-traveling himself.)
;-)
Links:
Stream Of Consciousness - http://superduperstream.blogspot.com/
LOST Blogging Collective - http://superduperstream.blogspot.com/search/label/Lost Blogging Collective
LOST Blogging Collective Q&A - http://superduperstream.blogspot.com/search/label/Lost Blogging Collective - 0QnA
LOST Weekly Round-Ups - http://superduperstream.blogspot.com/search/label/Lost - Round-Ups
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ENJOY and Namaste!
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1 comments:
Wow :O thank you so much Anna. That is, quite simply, the best website review I have read - at points I was forgetting it was my own and thinking "I really WANT to visit this website now".
Oh yeah, how I wish I had a Frozen Donkey Wheel, or Desmond's ability to be in two places at once. As it is, I am only one person :O in fact I'm trying to drop the "Weekly" tags in case I miss a deadline or three :D the Weekly Image stuff is fine, and Weekly Website too (often it is more than one a week ;)) but unfortunately it is proving impossible to provide a Weekly Song and Weekly Round-Up :) but I try.
Anyway, thank you, again, so much :)
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