Work and stuff at home have kept me rather busy this week, but I did find a few gems in the rough.

• “The Sky is falling….” For those of you who do not know, Godlesswanderer runs a great blog over at Articulated Sky (http://articulatedsky.com).  He’s a decent writer and a whiz with graphic design.  He’s made signatures and posters for many people in the EVE Community.  Recently he announced that he will be closing his site down on the 12th of December (http://articulatedsky.com/2009/11/05/shutting-down-soon) as things are a bit tough on the financial front.  He’s a bit down in the dumps about the whole thing, why not stop by and try to cheer him up.
• CCP Games put a new marketing website for EVE Online.  Head over to http://getaclone.com.  It’s a decent Flash based site, brings the immersion factor up a notch.  It was inspiration for a quick episode of The Bleeding Rose, http://www.eve-druid.com/on-the-wings-of-angels.
• Over at The EVE Online Portal we added 5 new blogs to the OPML Download bringing the total of blogs to 458!  Head over and bookmark the Latest Blogs! page (http://www.evebloggers.com/latest-blogs) to keep to date on our new members of the EVE Blogging Community.
• For those of you who do not know, Godlesswanderer runs a great blog over at Articulated Sky (http://articulatedsky.com).  He’s a decent writer and a whiz with graphic design.  He’s made signatures and posters for many people in the EVE Community.  Recently he announced that he will be closing his site down on the 12th of December (http://articulatedsky.com/2009/11/05/shutting-down-soon) as things are a bit tough on the financial front.  He’s a bit down in the dumps about the whole thing, why not stop by and try to cheer him up.
• The Planet Risk show had a nice episode with a few of the hopefuls for the next CSM debating on various topics, head over to (http://www.planetriskshow.com/episode-9) and have a listen.
• While reading old posts on the EVE forums, I came across this small collection of EVE related themes for Windows 7.  I found this high on the cool factor as I’ve recently upgraded my laptop and reloaded my desktop with Windows 7  Home Premium. (http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=967784)
• The latest EVE novel, EVE:  The Burning Life is available for preorder on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/EVE-Burning-Life-Hjalti-Danielsson/dp/0765325292/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257517238&sr=1-1).
• Remember that wonderful backdrop on the main stage at Fanfest that everyone wants as a screensaver?  Well, it’s supposed to be out after Dominion. Keep an eye on this thread on the EVE forums for updates, http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1193324&page=3#69.
• CCP released new details on the upcoming Sovereignty System changes.  You can read the Dev Blog and the Responses. Just initially going over the numbers, a developed system will cost roughly 2 billion isk a month to maintain.  Please point out a small alliance that is trying to get into 0.0 that can afford 2 billion isk a month.  There aren’t any.  I simply don’t see how this is going to make people want to go to 0.0 space when they can earn the same amount of isk in Empire space with less effort.  Go read the forums on this as the responses are very interesting and mostly against the upcoming changes.

See you out there!!!

Tags: Articulated Sky, CSM, Duvolle Laboratories, EVE Novel, EVE: The Burning Life, getaclone, Godlesswanderer, On the wings of angels, OPML Download Update, Planet Rick, The Bleeding Rose, Themes

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Well, it seems the same thing happens every time I make an OPML update post, more blogs show up.  It’s a problem that I honestly love to encounter as it means there will be more and more content for the EVE Online community to read and enjoy.  This time around, it’s really worth the notice as there are two new services for the EVE Online community that just add a new level of awesomeness to our lives!

Pluggit (http://www.pluggit.org) has just made history for the EVE Online community as the first social network that is focused solely on EVE Online.  It a website that uses an open source application called Pligg (http://www.pligg.com) that operates in a similar fashion to the famous social network known as Digg (http://www.digg.com).

Right now, there are no WordPress plugins that will support a Pligg (http://www.pligg.com) based social network site, so incorporating the Pluggit badge is a bit involved.

The first is a quick and dirty way by editing the html for your WordPress post:

• When you are making your post, click on HTML view tab
• Place this code at the top or bottom of the page:

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<script type="text/javascript">submit_url = 'Insert Article URL';</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pluggit.org/evb/button.php"></script>

• Put in your post’s url
• Then click on the visual tab again and save the post.  This will give you the same button you see on this blog post.

This method is a bit involved but it will work.

The second way is a bit easier, use the templates plugin for WordPress (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-template/) and create a blank post with the same code we used in the above method.

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<script type="text/javascript">submit_url = 'Insert Article URL';</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pluggit.org/evb/button.php"></script>

When you go to make a new post for your blog, use the template, update your post’s url in the code and the Pluggit badge will already be at the end of the post for you.

For a complete list of all the variations of code to incorporate the Pluggit badge into your website, head over to http://podlogs.com/blog/2009/05/18/pluggit-buttons.

Now, the creator of the Pluggit website, our good friend Eddit Gordo,  didn’t stop with his one service, he created another equally valuable resource.

Podlogs.com (http://www.podlogs.com) is offering free WordPress based blogs with pre-configured EVE themes.  So if you were debating on joining the EVE Blogging community and you were concerned about creating a visually stunning blog, wait no longer.  For those of us who have been at it for a while, all the themes at Podlogs are available for download so we too can enjoy these wonderful WordPress themes.

This leads me to the real purpose of this post and my second OPML update of the week.  Below are all the blogs that now exist on Podlogs and their contribution now brings the total of EVE blogs in the OPML to 272!!

I want to extend a huge thank you to Eddie Gordo.  With his hard work, he has added two new services for the EVE Online community that puts him in the ranks alongside Chribba (http://www.eve-files.com) and Roc Wieler (http://capsuleer.evesuite.com).  Thanx mate!!!

Welcome to the EVE Online Blogging Community and let’s see how much more we can grow!!

• Thoughts from an Accidental Minmatar Revolutionary (http://podlogs.com/thorvik)
• Gallente Flying Minmatar (http://podlogs.com/ferdioricotez)
• TekTok (http://podlogs.com/tekamura)
• Idiocy 101, (http://podlogs.com/xious)
• Les carnets de Veninsul,(http://podlogs.com/veninsul)
• dreaming of leaving hi-sec (http://podlogs.com/praerian)
• Eve life and times (http://podlogs.com/robstal)
• Hexentanz EVE Artworks (http://podlogs.com/hexentanz)
• Burrito’s Quest to Universal Domination (http://podlogs.com/burritosaretasty)
• The edges of known space (http://podlogs.com/knownspace)
• Sarathin’s Blog (http://podlogs.com/sarathin)
• Terron Itokata: Gun Diplomat (http://podlogs.com/terron)
• Akikio Lankinen (http://podlogs.com/akikio)
• Darkness and Void (http://podlogs.com/darknessandvoid)
• Ponderings from a Prospector (http://podlogs.com/matthias)
• Ill Omen (http://podlogs.com/illomens)
• The Lonley Hauler (http://podlogs.com/13january)
• Spawn of Eden (http://podlogs.com/edurardo)
• Caldarian’s Kanj Travellar (http://podlogs.com/kanji)
• Alexandra Stormwing (http://podlogs.com/alexandrastormwing)
• A Pirates Life for Me! (http://podlogs.com/hyfvenom)
• The Adventures of a Clone and His Pod (http://podlogs.com/kurzik)
• Global Posts (http://podlogs.com/tags)
• Infection Vector (http://podlogs.com/nikiruu)
• Knightly Tales of Pew-Pew (http://podlogs.com/tandin)
• Van’s Quest (http://podlogs.com/vanadiel)
• I will try to find my place (http://podlogs.com/nocts)
• Carthage Industries (http://podlogs.com/carthageindustries)
• Safe Spot (http://podlogs.com/golan)

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Tags: Eddie Gordo, EVE Online Blogs, OPML Download Update, Pluggit, Podlogs

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