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03 Oct 2008 mellow_bunny

Bloglomerates | They are forming, are clouds of war approaching?

“Bloglomerates”  As told to me by RyanA (his thoughts here). The following are my own thoughts on the word and what it means.

I may have mentioned this before but I have a very active imagination. I treat it as a special gift. The title of this post is somewhat misleading as to what I actually think of bloglomerates but it painted a cool picture in my mind.

Imagine a world where writers control mankind. Not through magical words but in great literary battles that are fought between the great corporate writing bloglomerates. Their clashes shaping and moulding the world around them and changing the opinions and thoughts of those who read their words. I keep imagining some sort of anime done by BONES on the subject. Bloglomerates would rise and fall, new alliances and friendships and new enemies would be found in each clash. Those destroyed by the power of other’s words or the lack of any will to fight themselves, would disappear off into.. wherever.. obscurity would be good. I think that would make an awesome show.. or at least some sort of narrated art book ;D!

Anywho my actual opinion on bloglomerates isn’t that of fear or as seeing them as fighting and squabbling groups. I actually think they are a sign of the progress and friendship that is formed in our greater community. We have a few bloglomerates of late and there is two types from what I can see. The first type of bloglomerate could be defined as “self-contained”. They are self-contained in the sense that they have a single focal point to represent themselves. The writers for these bloglomerates may have their own blogs but they choose to post either in parallel or dedicate more to the bloglomerate headquarters. Below is a list of some of the bloglomerates that I know of and follow…

Are-are

Heterochromia

Oi, Hayaku!

THAT Animeblog

The Scrumptious Anime Blog

Yukan Blog!

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These bloglomerates are great places to get regular written food for the mind. They are composed of multiple authors who usually post on different topics thus allowing you to enjoy a wide range of topics. These are the first type of bloglomerates and probably the more obvious. Because of the amount of content that the bloglomerate sites generate a lot of people will follow the bloglomerates in herds. HERDS I TELL YOU. Followers of a bloglomerate may end up joining the group or even forming their own bloglomerate.

There is however a second type of bloglomerate. This type may be composed of different multi-author or single author blogs that work in harmony to reach certain goals. They could be involved in projects together that are for the community or they could be friends who regularly work together to create posts or events.

This second type of bloglomerate could be classed as more creative or innovative. They are more likely to make things that aren’t in the norm or that are new and exciting. They are not confined to writing to a particular schedule or to particular guidelines and are more likely to develop ideas that they come up with.

I would like to think that mellowSPACE is part of a bloglomerate that combines with one or two other bloggers. We work together behind the scenes trying to bring new things to the community and in that sense we have more then just a common purpose or goal. We actively work together to make these things happen. I guess the one thing we lack is perhaps an outward unity which is visible through writing collaborations or similar.

What is your take on bloglomerates? Do you agree with how I have portrayed them? Would you place yourself in a bloglomerate? Could you envisage a more formal arrangement for bloglomerates such as an index?

Edit: I for some reason was not aware that Random Curiosity is multi-author. I’d say that RandomC is deifintely a self-contained bloglomerate that has quite far-reaching influence.

02 Oct 2008 mellow_bunny

Code Geass | The little train that won’t go away.

I don’t care about it. I wish to state this clearly. I DONT CARE ABOUT IT. WHY MUST YOU PEOPLE TORMENT MY RSS FEEDS WITH THIS UTTER NONSENSE. Sorry.. it’s been a long day. A looong day. Work was very tiring as there are lots of issues I need to resolve before my deadline tomorrow. The issues seem to be growing rather then shrinking. Also I was at work early today for a meeting.

I don’t hate people’s posts about the show but seriously it finished already.. who cares anymore? A new season is upon us and yet there must still be ONE ZILLION posts on Code Geass being crafted as I type this. You know what ignore this post i’m just being a total bawmonster.

In other news i’m waiting to see Toradora and Xam’d. Yay for FLV anime ;P! Also I want to see Quartet. The show should be airing in about 6 hours or so which means I might be able to see the raws tomorrow. RAWS U SAI? Yes I say. I can’t be bothered waiting for subs :D!

P.S The site looks a little different cos I got COMPLETELY pissed off at work and decided to bum around for 30 minutes.

Maid + Gun + Eyepatch = YOU ARE DOOMED SUCKER

02 Oct 2008 JTFish

Taigasm

So it took one new season of Zero no Tsukaima and one Series containing Kugimiya Rie and Yui Horie AND Kitamura Eri to resurrect me. The reason I haven’t posted since February is because I was in a comatose state. It turns out watching True Tears causes brain damage if said brain isn’t damaged already. It was foolish of me to attempt watching it. My family considered euthanizing me (LEGAL IN BELGIUM) but in a last ditch effort played every episode of the new season of zero no Tsukaima near my comatose body. This managed to make me regain consciousness. But I was unable to move any part of my body below my neck until I saw Tora Dora.

Taigasm

And man was it awesome, not only did it have a character voiced by Kugimiya Rie talking, it also had said character blushing, being mad, sleeping, coughing,  attacking people and calling people dogs. And I think we can all agree that all of these things combined form a masterpiece. Seriously I could stare at these images and listen to her voice all day. Plot is overrated. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off looping this episode until I drop dead of exhaustion.

02 Oct 2008 Pablo-kun

That’s what C.C. said

Salutations, while mellow is busy working like mad for the upcoming mellow space redesign I’ve made an effort to write an epic post depicting some key points in Code Geass R2. Regarding Lelouch I’ll follow the rule that suggests that every geass character (except Rivalz) has 2 lives, and at least one of these will be used through the series. I was expecting Sunrise to throw up something like a new Geass user out of nowhere and then hang up the series until who knows when, but surprised to say the Final Turn really wraped things up and tied most of the loose ends.

Looking at geass from a general point of view both seasons were great, that is of course if you manage to forgive some flaws, for example a ridiculous amount of deux ex machina throughout the series that generated the most improbable scenarios you would’ve though of, here some of the more recent ones: Read more…

01 Oct 2008 mellow_bunny

Planning | It is not for the foolish.

In preparation for projects be they big or small, it is necessary to plan ahead. Why? Quite simply because it helps you to avoid problems which can either slow down your work pace or completely nullify the work you have done. With any project you should first lay out your goals and objectives. Then once you know what you want to achieve you can begin the process of planning how you are going to get to that point. <– THIS ALL I KNOW ABOUT PLANNING.

Planning has left me in EMO ANGST.

I have a serious problem when it comes to planning. I am a complete impulse creative. I all of a sudden think of an idea and WOOOOOOOOOSH I need to make it. I do not know of a good formula for actually writing a plan out. A structure that is easy to understand and which covers everything I need to think of. I think I really should just sit down and sort that out before I continue on any of the work I am doing. If anyone can suggest a good way of doing it please let me know.

Some of the things I would like to implement in mellowSPACE 09 are user accessibility related. An optional minimal theme that will display for both IE6 users and those who choose to view the site in that manner is a necessity as I will not support IE6 with some of the more modern code I will use on the main theme. I also want to implement a mobile ready version of the website. Now, I know these things can be done and relatively simply. My problem is that I haven’t written down ANYWHERE all the things I want to put in. So I now find myself not knowing what to place where in my design because I haven’t defined what I need.

In fact I think I work in reverse when it comes to making new websites. I start with a design and then work out how i’m going to use it. It’s a bad way to go. Here’s a small look at the coming new mellowSPACE design.

This is just a draft by the way, this shows a post preview.

My launch date is set at the 1st of January 2009. Once mellowSPACE is up and running all new-like then I will be working hard on getting the Bloggers Anthology 2009 going. That project is going to be awesome by the way. The end result will be a 200-300 page magazine that you can read and enjoy.

I think I should probably change the title of this post to something like Not Planning | Is the fools way because seriously .. it is so much harder to do things without thinking them through.

Anyway congratulations to Yukan Blog! on their new design and new authors. It’s good to see blogs with nice layouts and easy to read posts. As a collective whole if we present ourselves in a classier manner we are more likely to get more attention.

Anywho I should do some work, my boss is looking at me like ( ~_~)!