Gathering together the disparate thoughts of tens of bloggers is no simple task in any case, but to deliver one by distilling multiple awards into a single cohesive showcase of peer appreciation was an immensely tall order. However, Drackarn at Sand, Cider and Spaceships took time out from his usual Read more…
Way back in November, Blog Banter 41: Director’s Cut squeezed the creative juices of the EVE Bloggeratti for ideas on how to tell the story of EVE Online to a new audience. This gave us many diverse and colourful approaches to giving internet spaceships the Hollywood (or in some cases, Read more…
Like of jury of one’s peers, some of the EVE blogosphere’s finest scribes have passed judgement on the world’s premier game of internet spaceships. The Impossible Challenge No single games journalist could reasonably provide an accurate and up-to-date review of any MMO – they are simply too broad in scope Read more…
In a strange confluence of Banter activity, whilst BB42: 2012 Community Review of EVE Online spools up and BB41: Director’s Cut winds down (but there’s still time if anyone else wants to pitch in), the summary of Blog Banter 40: Interstellar Blood Sports casually glides into view. And then everyone Read more…
“Some say a man’s home is his castle. For others it is wherever they lay their hat. The concept is just as nebulous in the New Eden sandbox.” – Blog Banter 39: Home Summarising a Blog Banter is no easy task. It involves reading through tens of blogs, weighing up Read more…
Summarising Blog Banters is no small task. With an average of 25 entries on any given topic, this involves reading through and absorbing every one, then finding a way to represent each effort in a single cohesive document. EveScientist at A Scientist’s Life in EVE bravely took on BB38: Dogma Read more…
It has been a year since we relaunched the Blog Banter initiative to support and encourage the EVE blogging community. I am proud and grateful that it has been a consistent success and has been embraced by the community in general. I thought I’d take the opportunity to take a Read more…
I truly believe that the EVE Blog Banter initiative is a positive community force. As the administrator of the monthly discussion, I get to write the questions which are based on suggestions from the community and are directly linked to a topical subject already floating around in the metasphere. It Read more…
In what is hopefully the first of many community-sourced summaries, A Scientist’s Life in EVE has bravely taken on the job of reading through every entry, weighing up the thoughts of all contributors and putting together a cohesive summary of the entire banter. The question asked in Blog Banter 36: Read more…
The growth of the Council of Stellar Management… A modest yet topical little blog banter proposal from CCP Xhagen that I thought might tide us over during the CSM7 election process that was to conclude at Fanfest. Secretly I was quite glad that only fifteen bloggers threw their thoughts into Read more…