I’m a fan of many great movies. I think the best would be classics from my youth — Pulp Fiction and the Big Lebowski for sure. I’m a huge fan of Dark City as well. I can go on, but will just leave it at that. I do have a point in telling you the movies I enjoy. The more memorable movies I watched came to me when I was younger. Maybe they made movies better back then. I think it had to do with time.

I had more time to watch and to appreciate a good movie. I could watch it more than once. I could revel in its scripted glory.

I think the same can be said of blogs. I found many that I fell for right away. I read them everyday. I have become attached to them. With all these great blogs in my feed reader, I find it hard to add new ones to my daily routine. I know I must branch out.  In this episode of the Weekly Implosion, I’m looking at various blogs and sites that affected me in a positive manner.

The Nominations Are…

I have found many sites helpful with my creation of this blog. One person in particular was there from the beginning. Jeff at Buzz my Blog who has also guest posted here.

I’m sure many of you have run across the goatee sporting tech guy’s website. Joe Tech needs no introduction, but his participation in my blog’s jettison to success has been formidable.

Ben Barden’s blog. What an inspirational blog. Need I say more?

Many blogs have affected me in a positive manner. I just wanted to shout out to a few of them in this post. They’ve won my Oscar.

Other Nominations
My blog would be nowhere without Entrecard. I signed up for the service probably ten days after launching my site. I have not looked back. At first, I dropped my cards on others politely. Now I push for 300 a day, and have built up quite a collection of ECs.

I found many of my current RSS subscriptions from the service. I also love the forums on the site, although they are a little slow. I have a few items for sale in the shop. One being a post idea, which actually is more difficult to fulfill than previously thought. Overall Entrecard has only been second to Stumbleupon as far as referrals to my site. The service continues to grow and become an internet success story.

I also enjoy the PostonFire.com site. I ran across the site when I was surfing through Entrecard. I was skeptical at first. I mean, it looks like Digg; it sounds like Digg; it must be a Digg wannabe, right? Only partially. The site has icons of fire, so that was a definite plus for me. I do like to ignite things. Along with the smart graphics, comes a really nice layout. Everything on the site appears readable, and friendly. The process of signing up wasn’t difficult, and adding friends, posting new articles, and firing other’s submissions all comes easy. Overall I love the site, and its helped me find a few new readers.

Upcoming Explosions
I swear I’m going to do a podcast. I’ve been busy with freelance writing lately. I’ll make some time though. Next week should see a recurrence of humor posts. I think they’re some of the hardest posts to write. Humor itself seems elusive in text form. I’ll try to capture some funny tidbits in a post I’ve been working on for a while.

A new barrel of fuctional blogging joy should be on the way. Look for a new Powder Keg Review this week.

Have you considered joining a blog network? I’ve been asked to put my blog into one. I’m thinking about it, and I’m going to write about it. The questions I have will be posted here with answers from the network owner.

This week’s implosion brings us the winner of the contest that began on Monday.  If you didn’t know about the contest and wished you’d signed up for it, a new one will be up tomorrow. Stay tuned for that.

The Randomizer
There were quite a few entries into this week’s contest. But not so many you didn’t have an excellent chance of walking away a winner. I found the random.org site to be the best solution to a fair turnout. I did the two 125×125 month long ads first. The winners are…

 Erz from Blogodise

and

Andrew Pavelski from www.andrewpavelski.com

The next set of random numbers revealed who would win the 3 available links on the sidebar for a month. And the winners are…

Carl from ThatBlogSite.com

and

Sensei from ContestU.com

and

Chuck from www.southpawgolfclubs.com

Congratulations to all the winners! I’ll be putting the ads up this afternoon. I hope you all receive a ton of traffic from the deal. If you didn’t win, be sure to check back on Monday for another great contest.

The Meat and Potatoes
This week has been met with a ton of success. I’m continuing to explode on the internet, and meeting some great people along the way. I’ll recap this week’s accomplisments, and see just how far Jason Boom has gone since its inception. To see a recap of the first two weeks, take a look at The Big Bang Experience.

1. My guest post to John Cow dot com was published on Tuesday evening.

2. I received a flattering account of my own explosion on the internet from LinkBaitMe.com.

3. As a result of the LinkBaitMe article, I talked to Joe from JoeTech.com about ways to give out excess EC credits. The EC slots were born of that discussion.

4. Lorelle, writing at the BlogHerald.com, used some of my musings as a catalyst for a very interesting article.

5. I’ve become a part of the growing forum community at Bloggeries.com.

6. I’m currently on the frontpage of www.blogintro.com. So if you want, go there to vote for The Boom.

What’s Next?
It’s a new week on the horizon. I have plans to engage everyone with some awesome content, the weekly contest, and the possibility of a Fantasy Friday series. I’m exploring what sticks with my readers, so your feedback definitely matters the most around here. I enjoy the writing, but I need to know what reading you enjoy.

So stick around…as a commenter recently reminded me, this is just the beginning.