Building on Ga’lens stalwart work in compiling an OPML file of the majority of EVE blogs I took it upon myself to categorize them according to a variety of criteria.
I don’t know if this categorisation is preserved in this re-release of the full list (right click/save as) of EVE blogs (with the broken ones removed but inactive ones retained for completeness and archiving purposes), so I’ve prepared OPML lists of each of the categories. I’ve also shared the folders I put them in in Google Reader as pages of their own, with their own feeds so you can simply subscribe to the feed for a category if you want.
- Fiction and In Character Blogs. (Google share)
- General EVE Blogs. (Google Share)
- Player Journals (not in character). (Google Share)
- Pictures, Screenshots and Fan Art. (Google Share)
- News. (Google Share)
- Podcasts. (Google Share)
- Racing. (Google Share)
- Resources. (Google Share)
- EVE related GameScribe Blogs. (Google Share)
- Podlogs. (Google Share)
- Non-English. (Google Share)
- Inactive. (Google Share)
- Unknown. (Google Share)
The categories should be fairly self-explanatory and logical. with the following meriting some explanation IMO.
- The inactive category holds blogs which still exist on the internet but have not been updated for 2 months or more.
- The Unknown category mainly holds new blogs from the Gamescribe and Podlogs services which haven’t yet had a post added to them or have so few posts that its hard to categorise them. These will be filtered into other categories as time progresses.
- There will be blogs which appear in more than one category. This is to be expected.
- The Fiction/In Character category is for blogs which have fiction or in character posts as the majority of their content. Rule of thumb: if there are posts on a blog which have an [OOC] tag (signifying an out of character post) then it goes in this category as tagging a post as OOC usually means that the rest are IC. Does that make sense?
I’m looking into setting up a central site which will automate the whole tedious process of cataloging the ever growing mob of EVE blogs. Including aggregated category feeds, receiving pings from registered blogs when they’re updated and allowing users to register their blog and have it included automatically in the OPML files. This is originally what the EVE Directory Project started out as, but I had trouble finding a decent ready made script to do all these things. Looks like I’m going to be coding one from scratch, so it might take a while and not work properly.
I’m a crap coder, I’ve had professional PHP scripters look at working code I’ve produced and laugh out loud in disbelief. I’ve been told that code that I have churned out is inefficient, highly unstable and not supposed to work (but it does, after a fashion), so any help or advice that anyone can offer in this regard would be most welcome. I’m also incredibly slow and can’t get my head around OOP with PHP.
If there are any blogs you’d like to see added, or that you think have been miscategorised, let me know in the comments or tweet @mandrill. I hope to be updating these lists on a relatively (monthly or thereabouts) regular basis until I get the aggregation automation system up and running (so for the foreseeable future I’ll be doing it manually)
Till next time, good hunting and don’t let the reds get you down.
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