Crazy Kinux has finally become active after a long absence for the better part of a year and announced that he has decided to revamp the his Blog Pack. He announced that he was seeking submissions on who should be added to his blog pack and he would hold a vote. He would then select the top 20 from that voting process and add his own blog to the mix for a total of 21 blogs.
I’ve read the comments and I want to thank everyone who has listed my blog as a potential inclusion for CK’s blog pack. It’s gratifying to see that many people like my blog’s content and I am truly touched.
However, I am a bit torn by some of the discussion I am seeing on this topic and I too want to chime in here.
Roc of Roc’s Ramblings voiced some personal opinions concerning the elitist concept around the formation of a blog pack. I posted my comments on his blog, but I have more to say and I didn’t want to cloud up the discussion.
I feel the need to point out that Casiella Truza posted a good response asking everyone to stop being all emo about this situation. I need to quote my friend here because he has a great point:
But you know what really gets me madder than a sack of hornets? When a sense of ownership turns into a sense of entitlement. “The list is popular and therefore we should get to decide what’s in it, because otherwise I will be sad and left out and the community will die.” As much as I appreciate CK’s hard work, the EVE community won’t die based on what one single person does or doesn’t do. We’ve grown past that. I’ll keep writing what I write (and so will many of you) because of the people that read it, not because I want some badge of approval from one single person.
People feel like they are being excluded because they are not in CK’s blog pack not listed in Capsuleer and that’s why they are all acting emo. I agree with Casiella and this is why.
You should really take a look at the many other things the community has down on it’s own without CK taking the lead to help us all grow. A few of them are listed here:
- I created an OPML file of EVE blogs well before I ever met CK, however he was one of the many bloggers who suggested make it public for everyone to use.
- 00sage00 created the tweetfleet.
- Alexia Morgan created The EVE Online Portal (evebloggers.com) for all EVE blogs to have a fair shot of exposure to the world.
- Eddie Gordo created PodLogs to provide a place for anyone who wanted to blog about EVE to be able to do so easily.
- Mandril created the “streamlined OPML download” based on my original work years before meeting CK. Mandril is also working on a categorized directory for all the EVE blogs.
All these endeavors have done very well under the guidance of the EVE Blogging Community in general. We all build and contribute to our community in such a way that is inclusive of everyone. We don’t isolate those few from obtaining the traffic that they should be able to obtain. We keep things fair and we have done so very well. We always have and we always will.
And for a final note, no, you don’t have to be listed in CK’s Blog Pack to be in Capsuleer. This discussion has come up before and it’s mentioned on their forums. Head over and simply ask to be included in the application. Work Roc and Pyjamasam and see what your options are. There is a lot of love that goes into developing Capsuleer, you should share in that effort and respect their time, an offer of compensation for their work would be most welcome.
What would a post about our community discussing an issue without yet another shared Google Items page. Yes, I am a Google Reader shared items whore and I am proud of it.
You can catch all the content I am aware on this issue at: http://www.eve-druid.com/ckbpd. If I’ve missed anyone, comment here and I will get you added into the page.
Tags: Blog Pack, Casiella Truza, Eddie Gordo, EVEbloggers.com, Google Reader, OPML Download, Podlogs, Response to other blog, Roc's Ramblings, The EVE Online Portal, Tweetfleet, Twitter
