Saturday, October 27, 2012

New Master Blog Roll Coming?

So Adam over at win-warhammer-40k has stated that he is going to try to bring back a master blog roll for the 40K blogs.  This is a good idea as I know that since dropping of the FTW and BOLS rolls my traffic has not be as good.  Now I am wondering from his description if he is trying to go farther than just a blog roll.  He needs to be careful as what he is describing to me sounds to much like reposting RSS feeds which I find quite distasteful.  I personally cut down my feed length when I found a site essentially reposting my entire posts pics and all on their pages.  I know we all play fast and loose with copyright around these parts especially when it is photos of those breaking new items which you will not get sued since generally the photo is of something that has its own copyright so the posted does not have the right to sue you.  It also seems like the bigger they are the more they take off of warseer and other blogs.

The new blog roll got me thinking about the 40k blogosphere ingeneral though.  While we are all constantly pumping out new and interesting things (everybody more so than me), there are probably about 1 million blog posts out their now in the 40K blogosphere.  Now many of these are out of date, or not really great items in the first place (like 99.9% of my posts) but even if only a few percent are good that is still thousands of great projects and information hidden in all the archives.  Even when you see a new blog how often do you dig in their archives.  I have my popular post list on the side but that often gets dominated by Lego stuff since the interest base is much larger (seriously I have lego posts with 10 times the traffic of my best 40K stuff).

Now google is somewhat helpful in finding stuff but we all often get fun with our post titles which my wife tells me the exactly wrong thing to do if you want people to find your posts.  I think one of my best posts in on my Scout Sergeant with Powerfist and Shotgun.  Nothing super fancy just some kitbashing.  If you search for this on google images it is the first one you find but in just normal google it is down the list.  Now a blog roll member search function might be a really cool thing or a better index of good posts.  I have a couple of other models that turned of really well like my Belial and Deathwing Apothecary which are on the popular post list.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Weird, Google has apparently lost all my Page Views

I noticed that my popular posts in the side bar was only showing 1 post today so I was trying to figure out why and it appears as if google lost all my pageviews.  While most of my posts only get 30-50 page views some of the lego stuff was over 7000 views.  Anyone elses page view stats float off into the ether.

Anyway.  Miniature giveaway (Chainmail Dwarves plus a few extras) should be up this week.  Also might update the contents of the Bargain bin as I have some 2ed Blood Bowl Humans available now.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Chainmail Miniatures Trade List

I added a Chainmail Miniatures trade list to my pages on the right.  I know that most people do not have or care about these minis but I have some available and am looking for others.  Maybe you have some and want something else from my bargain bin instead just let me know.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Lego Hobbit Sets

 FBTB.net has posted a list and tons of images of the new Lego Hobbit sets.  Some of the sets look interesting but the rate the Lego is pushing out sets right now it is hard to keep up.  I would probably look at Escape from Mirkwood Spiders and Attack of the Wargs depending on the price points.  Escape from Mirkwood Spiders draws my eye since it appears to have a female elf and I am always on the look out for good female minifigures for my daughter.

I have 2 of the sets for the current Lord of the Rings line (Attack on Weathertop and Mines of Moria) which I could review if anyone is interested.  I am still waiting for the Shelob Attacks set to go on sale.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Reaper Kick Starter Order Locked In

I locked in my Reaper Bones Kickstarter order today.  I was pleasantly surprised with the credit value for the metal Sophie on bike which allowed me along with my initial pledge to get most of what I wanted from the options section without me throwing down more cash now.  Looking at it in the skirmish idea, I was able to add some big models to most of the obvious groups.  Now the long wait till March or I am guessing later.  By then I might have forgotten what I asked for so it will be like a surprise.

What did everyone select?