12 Days of the Seeker

I wanted to do something for December that was a little special and helped to keep the idea of bringing back Legend of the Seeker. Since it’s the Christmas shopping season one hears all sorts of silly songs, and various renditions of “Twelve Days of Christmas” have been filling the air.

On the other hand, coordinating a lengthy 12-day campaign would have required more time and energy than I could commit to the task; and the more you ask of fans the fewer people will have the time and energy to participate.

Hence, I decided it would be simpler to just ask people to post something once a day from December 13 through December 25 in the form of a brief Tweet in the style of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song.

So, on December 13 you Tweet something like “On the 1st Day of the Seeker all I want to see is LOTs coming back to TV”, etc.

December 14 is the 2nd Day of the Seeker, etc.

It’s easy enough to schedule 1 Tweet a day and you don’t have to feel like you’re letting the cause down if you miss a day or two.

But you can also help by ReTweeting other people’s Tweets. That way we’ll keep the tradition going throughout the twelve days without having to pound on the keyboard, schedule Tweets, etc.

BTW — you can actually schedule Retweets (for Tweets that have already been posted) through Worphy. It’s a fairly new service but I like it so far. Just grab the STATUS URL of the Tweet you want to retweet by right-clicking on the time stamp in the Twitter listing for a given Tweet.

You could grab 5-10 friends’ Tweets and schedule 1 Retweet for each of them each day.

Finally, we can use the hash tag of #12seekerdays to let people know what we’re doing. Don’t worry about trending. This isn’t about trending. But we can create some Storify pages, maybe, if we get enough interesting Tweets.

I’m sorry about not providing the details sooner. I’ve been really busy and stealing time to promote fandom projects. I should be able to get a few Tweets scheduled for December 13 in time. After that, I hope you’ll help me keep it going forward.

I’d love to see Craig Horner, Bridget Regan, Bruce Spence, and the rest of the Seeker cast get back together next fall, or maybe make a movie. The Tribune bankruptcy was so unfair to a great show and a great fandom.

And who knows? Maybe an online service like http://blip.tv/ will take an interest in the franchise (or maybe some production company that works with online media will).

I’m not ready to give up. I hope you’re not, either, because there is still a great deal more that we as fans can do to show people in the entertainment industry that there is a market for this show.

Help Complete the June 2012 #LegendoftheSeeker Fan Video Extravanganza

Fans of Legend of the Seeker have been Tweeting their favorite LOTS fan videos all month long, just for the sake of sharing their love for this great TV show with all their friends and followers on Twitter.

Now as we head toward the end of June we want to make sure the fan video extravaganza goes out with a huge flourish. We can do that by Tweeting fan-made Legend of the Seeker videos all week long.

I have posted a list of all the videos I have been promoting with the @seekerfans account on SF-Fandom in this thread.

You can help make this fan video extravaganza a great success by:

• Adding a few of your own Tweets using the #legendoftheseeker hash tag each day
• Retweeting a few of the Tweets from people you follow each day
• Telling your friends and family and anyone else who will listen to you to check Twitter each day for the #legendoftheseeker hash tag
• Subscribe to and Retweet the Legend of the Seeker Paper.li Daily News

Legend of the Seeker fans continue to contribute their time and creativity to helping promote interest in the TV show. We’re hoping to persuade a network or maybe an online service like Hulu or Netflix to give the show a 3rd season; alternatively, we might find a film studio willing to give the franchise a shot. Worldwide ticket sales for action-adventure movies are having a big impact with the American film industry these days, so all our overseas friends can definitely benefit from seeing a movie franchise develop around Legend of the Seeker.

And in case you you’re wondering if Terry Goodkind has lost interest in the fan campaign to bring the show back, take heart: Terry Retweeted one of my Tweets about the fan campaign to his tens of thousands of followers earlier this month. He is still very much interested in our efforts.

Never give up! Remember to support the Save Our Seeker Website whenever calls go out for fan help!

Keep up the great work!

Please Join the Xenite.Org 15th Anniversary Celebration on March 14

I don’t often ask my friends in fandom for favors but this coming Wednesday, March 14, 2012 is a special day for me. It marks the 15th anniversary of Xenite.Org, my first science fiction and fantasy domain. I created my first Website in August 1996 but by February 1997 I had four Websites scattered across several ISP accounts. I decided to consolidate them on my own domain. On March 14 I registered Xenite.Org and by March 17 it was visible to everyone on the Web.

Xenite.Org is not only one of the first science fiction and fantasy fan domains, it’s one of the first science fiction and fantasy domains. I don’t know how many others had been created by then. Certainly big sites like TheForce.Net and Xenafan.com were already in existence, but many great fan megasites such as Mugglenet, TheOneRing.net, and others were yet to be launched.

Today Xenite still receives over 35,000 monthly visitors. The Xenite.Org network still serves nearly 70,000 monthly visitors. The number goes well over 200,000 if you include all the spammy robots and hacker tools that are constantly probing our server. (roll your eyes)

On Wednesday I am asking our friends and fans to join in a Tweetabration. Please sign on to Twitter and post any message that includes “Happy Fifteenth Xenite-dot-Org”. If you want to include hash tags, #scifi and #fantasy are cool. Or you could also use #sffandom, a hash tag we use for posts from the SF-Fandom Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums.

Thank you in advance for your support. I love doing things for science fiction and fantasy fans and I’m still working to help spread the word about Legend of the Seekr. But I think you’ll agree that March 14 is a pretty special day. We need MORE 15-year-old science fiction and fantasy fan domains.

You can follow Xenite.Org on Twitter at @xenite_org.

You can follow our Legend of the Seeker news and promotions on Twitter at @seekerfans.

Thanks a lot!

Twitter Has Issues But Don’t Let That Stop You

We still want as many people as possible to participate in the November 20 Tweetathon to support Legend of the Seeker. I am seeing problems with Twitter today (and a lot of people are complaining about them). I don’t know if those problems will extend through tomorrow.

The Tweetathon is scheduled for 12 Noon through 2 PM Pacific Time. You can use services like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite to schedule tweets for the Tweetathon. Hopefully you can log in to Twitter and participate that way as well.

It seems to me that the APIs are still working, so a lot of Tweets I saw today were coming from RSS feeds and maybe schedulers. I had to reload pages often and some pages just wouldn’t load. Here’s hoping Twitter gets the issue worked out soon.

November 20, 2011 Tweetathon for Legend of the Seeker Fans

Fans of Legend of the Seeker are gathering on Twitter this Sunday, November 20, from 12 Noon to 2 PM Pacific Time (Los Angeles/Seattle).

AgentExtremis is coordinating the festivities this time around.

Check out more details here.

You can follow AgentExtremis on Twitter. This blog’s Twitter account is Seekerfans.