This is it! The final NBI link-love list that I’ll be putting out this month. I promised NBI participants and interested onlookers that I’d be compiling all of the new (and newish/undiscovered) blogs that have emerged this month, as well as all of the terrific advice that seasoned bloggers gave. Here we go!
New blogs to check out:
- Lotro Family of Flosiin Nightsong
- Red Neckromonger
- Casual Aggro
- SWTOR from Scratch
- Elfkina vežička
- Unwavering Sentinel
- Windy Acres Ranch
- TL-DR
- Saali in Taborea
- Bad Tauren
- Musings of an Altoholic
- Neurotic Girl
- Geo’s Ironman Challenge
- Crafty’s Corner
- Scattered Thoughts
- The Poison Mushroom
- My Staff is Bigger Than Yours
- Vagabond Goes for a Walk
- EVE All Night
- Dreadblade
- Priest All The Things
- Brazokie’s Blog Space
- Warp to Zero
- Altaclysmic
- Winniekin’s Adventures / Winnie goes F2P
- Diminishing Returns
- World’s End Tavern
- Warrior Needs Time Badly
- We do it the WASD Way!
- Middle-earth Initiative
- That Was An Accident!
- Aggrolicious
- Conveniently Placed Exhaust Port
- Adamant Nomad
- Toastman’s Blog
- Ravalation
- Gaming for Introverts
- The Incidental Analyst
- Funsponge
- Bloodthorne
- AntiPlasmaFrequency
- Kemwer Game Blog
- The Adventures of Danania, Supergirl of Lorien
- Unliving a Death Knight
- Deathstomp
- MMO Juggler
- White Charr
- Not Too Heavy
- Flask Half-Empty
- Raspberry Jammed
- Click to Loot
- Kaw Kaw! Get in the Bag!
- Mistress of Illusions
- Malefic Incantations
- MMO One Night a Week
- Omens of Onterion
- The Blue Haired Geek
- TFScribbles
- Glimpses from Middle-earth
- Goetia’s Letters
- /con mmob
- Gaming Abroad
- Backseat Game Design
- Divinity’s Reach
- Big Numbers
- Trippin Tyria
- Eons and Eons Away
- Horrible Ball of Fire
- Image Heavy
- Casually Vicious
- The Frugal Gamer
- Gaming Brew
- The Roaring Silence
- MMOARprz
- Game Delver
- The Diverted Muse
- Newbie Hobbit
- Battlemastered
- thenotsonewnoob
- Auction House on Farm
- Giddeon’s Hammer
- Noob Raider
- The Altoholic
- stnylan’s musings
- The 10th Level of Gaming Hell
- commentarilies
- Inside the Magic Shop
- Beyond Tannhauser Gate
- Argus or Bust
- Lotro Cinna
- Warlockery
- Stabby McStabStab
- Healing Mains
- The Loony Bin
- Warcraft Street
- Real Adventures in Fake Worlds
- GnomeGates.com
- Hipstalotro
- The Butterfly Gamer
- The Mighty Viking Hamster
- Why I Game
- Wald’s Wanderings
- Ald Shot First
- Sephora’s Closet
- Donovan Drones
- Beyond Reproach
- The Horn & Ivory Gates
- Landroval Style
- MMO Asylum
- Renai Hunter
- Space Fiddle
Sponsor advice posts:
- Stropp’s World: Being a blogger superstar, Just do it, The pros and cons of self-hosting
- StarShadow: Some blogging advice, Themes and widgets, Screenshots, Menus, categories and tags
- In An Age: Advice for new bloggers
- Tish Tosh Tesh: Who Am I?, Blogging is a social activity, For love or money, Thinking linking, Traditions
- Tastes Like Battle Chicken: Build your own boss, Week 2 challenge, A few words of wisdom, Week 4 challenge
- Tales of the Aggronaut: The Google Reader blogroll, Getting started, Be open-minded (unlike me)
- Wadstomp Gaming: The importance of social media, Submit a guest post, The best advertising payouts, Be sure to burn your blog to feedburner, Create your own voice
- Beau Hindman: General advice, Indie games and bloggers
- Games and Geekery: Why you should blog, Learning about blogging from perfect strangers
- Skycandy: Blogging wrong, blogging right
- Shards of Imagination: Choosing the subject of your blog
- MMO Compendium: Keeping up with the industry and bloggers
- Contains Moderate Peril: Some general guidance, Mind your language, Stats, Episode 61
- Lotro Fashion: Screenshots make your blog interesting
- High Latency Life: Finding your voice, You need a thick skin
- Scary Worlds: Mobile blogging, Creating a good title, Advice you don’t want to hear
- ETCmmo.com: General advice
- Nerdy Bookahs: Why do you want to blog?, Why haven’t you started your blog yet?
- World of Matticus: WordPress plugins, Finishing your blog setup, Making connections
- World’s End Tavern: General tips
- Parallel Context: The best advice
- Tremayne’s Law: Read Think Write Edit
- Jaded Alt: So you wanna be a blogger?, What’s in a name?, If you remember nothing else… write!
- Avatars of Steel: Curling up with a good blog
- Blog de la Burro: Why I started blogging, Some advice on blogging, Does traffic matter?, How to deal with writer’s block, What you should blog about, Are comments important?, Is it ever okay to rant?, How to get noticed
- Inventory Full: How the Bhagpuss came to be, Take a moment, Backing up your blog
- Gamerlady: Tips to start
- Just One MMOre: How to be consistent and make it painless and easy, One question high-traffic blogs ask
- Spinksville: Picture manipulation tools and copyright
- T.R. Red Skies: Quick tips, Objectivity, relating and heart
- Live Like a Nerd: WordPress plugins for bloggers
- I Have Touched the Sky: Avoid barriers to commenting on Blogger, Blogs lists and RSS
- Thade’s Hammer: Advice for the new bloggers
- Levelcapped: Tell me about yourself, None of my business
- Psychochild: What makes your blog special
- Bullet Points: The worst advice you’ll ever receive about blogging, You are your blog
- A Casual Stroll to Mordor: Learn how to podcast, Writing for the web
- Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 58, Fine-turning your blog
- A Green Mushroom: Blogging tips and hints
- Too Many Annas: Picking a name
- Grimnir’s Grudge: It feels good to be a blogger
- Gankalicious: Never tell the truth, Meeting interesting people, Who the hell reads this?
- Herding Cats: Creating a podcast on the cheap with WordPress
- Distilled Willpower: 8 blogging tips they won’t tell you
- Vicarious Experience: From there to here
- TL-DR: Protect your blog!, Tags and Categories
- Multiplaying: You should be blogging
- Blue Kae: Advice is a strong word
- Screaming Monkeys: Top five tips
- Caer Morrighan: Get started with WoW blogging
- Hawt Pants: New blogger advice
- Tiger Ears: Why I started blogging
- Berath’s Brain Burps: Sage words, How to get lots and lots of hits
- Just One More Unlock: Newbie blogger tips, Opportunity
- Hunter’s Insight: An idea is formed, What not to do
- ALT:ernative: Starting at the beginning, The first idea
- Epic Slant: Tips and links, Guest post
- MMOGC: 3 little things
- A Journey through the Mind: My 0.2 ISK
- Red Cow Rise: What and why to post, Blog setup and community building
- Epic Slant: Writer’s block
- Creeping…: So you think you can blog
- The Ancient Gaming Noob: Playing blogroll breadcrumbs
- Dragonchasers: How not to build an audience
- Welcome to Spinksville: What you should write and how to write it
- The Stories of O: Top 4 tips
- A Ding World: Blog posting
- The Wild Boar Inn: Blogging tips
- Professor Beej: Stop writing!
- Nomnom.info: 4 blogging tips
- Gamer BC: A solid foundation and a step forward
- Casual Is As Casual Does: Tips, tricks and who am I kidding
- Roll One Hundred: Managing screenshots
- Bullet Points: I refuse to call it a blogosphere
- KIASA: Good advice
- Pumping Irony: Before taking the plunge
- Life is a Mind-Bending Puzzle: Wrapping up advice all in one place
- Rikna’s Rants: The blog rings, By this keyboard I rule!, Guests and cross posts
- Sheep the Diamond: Advice from an old bull
Thanks again for doing this Syp. It was a great month of meeting a bunch of new bloggers!
That’s a lot of great links. In going to need to take vacation to read them all and set up new RSS feeds for the Newbies. Thanks for doing this Syp it is a great thing and build a great community.
My pleasure, but thanks to everyone else who helped out too!
Reblogged this on World's End Tavern and commented:
My thanks to Syp for getting this all started!
Nicely done, on both the post and the initiative
Reblogged this on StarShadow and commented:
how fantastic to see all these new blogs 🙂 good luck all and I will be busy adding blogs to my reader 😉
Reblogged this on Image Heavy.
Thanks Syp!
Holy geeze, Syp. That’s a HUGE list. Didn’t dawn on me how many people partciipated in the event. This is going to take me ages to go through, yikes! Perhaps split it into categories by game? ^^
Thanks Syp for creating the initiative, all the sponsors for the amazing advices, and everyone for jumping in on this oportunity. It’s been a great experience, and I hope to see many of these blogs for a long, long time (including my own) 😀
hola! I’ve reposted this on my blog to aid in the support 🙂 thank you again for all your work!
That’s quite a haul of blogs there Syp. I can’t claim to have visited them all (yet) but many of them put my humble efforts to shame. Well done to all participants.
Kudos Syp. I reckon it’s a great effort bringing all this together to help the MMO blogging community. Cheers!
I’ve been trying to keep track of all fellow newbies and did notice it was quite a job, but I didn’t realize there were *this* many! :O
I’ll be checking all links to be sure there’s nothing I missed. Thank you so much for this initiative, it’s been so much fun! I feel a bit more like a blogger instead of just a girl with a computer after this month. 🙂
Although your giant unsorted list is making the OCD in my right eye twitch, it was an interesting experience. My blogroll is set to triple, and I hope you all keep on blogging for years to come. Next year, we’ll be looking at hundreds of new blogs if this progression stays on the same track. Kudos to everyone!
Hey, it is only the 30th! I have one more NBI post to do! *grumble*
I’ve got another post for tomorrow, Wil!
Cheers for the doing this.
You folks could of done better, piss poor job I’m thinking. I wanted a 1000 new blogs. As for myself I want to give myself a HUGE pat on the back…cause well I’m awesome.
Hey someone’s got to be the jerk, might as well be me. 🙂
Thanks for organizing the whole shebang, Syp. It’s been a lot of fun. I don’t know about anyone else but I certainly learned a lot.
Going to reorganize and unify my blogroll this weekend and there will be some permanent additions from that massive list.
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It has been a real blast and a real pleasure to of gained this new hobby. It has also been fun interacting with a lot of new people and their own unique perspectives and new ideas.
Thanks!
@Syp thanks, this was just the nudge I needed to start it.
Fab stuff! Thanks Syp for putting this all together and working so hard – was a pleasure to be a part of it !
i’m hoping this is as easy as just copying and pasting; thats a huge list 😉
Awesome, Syp. Simply awesome. Thanks again for starting this. And hopefully next time, I’ll be on the “advice giving” side. 🙂
You rock!
Thank you for setting this up, I’ll be adding to my blogroll this weekend! I look forward to next year, where us newbies, can help out the new newbies!
Thanks for the push Syp. List has been copied and pasted.
What a fun idea. Thanks for doing this!
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Well, it’s been a great run. I’ve been honored and humbled to participate in the Newbie Blogger Initiative, taking in the copious amounts of advice and experience being handed down from bloggers big and small. I’d like to think we all have a lot to learn from each other, whether veteran or newbie – at least, I have learned a lot at y’all’s feet the past several weeks.
Syp has the roundup information handled and summarized, so all I can add is: go forth and blog awesomely!
I’m glad this was such a success. Getting new people with new ideas and perspectives into the community is great!
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I really appreciate the effort you put into this Syp. I only got around to one post and was mostly absentee due to work demands, but I think this was a great thing to do, and obviously showing returns with a bunch of new blogs. 🙂
Like I needed more to read…. 😉
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With the end of May comes the end of the New Blogger Initiative and the end of the New Blogger Initiative Blog post! And that post is…
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Well, I am sure you won’t being hearing this first from me, literally everyone of my favourite blogs has this up on their front page… But if somehow you were living under a rock for the month of may and the first thing you did when you crawled out was somehow find Not Too Heavy, here is a list of all the bloggers that started in the NBI and all the advice articles that were posted:
Just FYI: One of the advice links I tried checking out on in your great big list was typo’d.
–Just One MMOre: How to be consistent and make it painless and easy, One question high-traffic blogs ask
You’ve got those two links as justonemoar.com instead of justonemmore
Hope that helps!