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Mar200910

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Big Updates For WoW Headlines

WoW HeadlinesMy little side project, WoW Headlines, has made some huge progress in the last few days. It’s currently tracking and cataloging posts from over 120 Warcraft blogs. Right now the index contains over 2,200 individual posts with more being added every few hours as the site updates itself.

In addition to the front page makeover, each individual class now as its own subpage with a list of the most recent 50 posts as well as direct links to each of the blogs its tracking. So far, Hunter blogs are dominating the site at the moment and a kind reader just emailed about dozen more I need to add. During the rest of the week I hope to expand the amount of blogs for the other classes as well. If you’d like to give me a hand in that, feel free to send a list of blogs you think the site is missing at info@wowheadlines.com.


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Mar200904

4

New WoW Project

For a long, long time I’ve built web sites that aggregate (or combine) content from across the web on one particular topic. Usually those topics are sports related because that’s what I’m most interested in. So, for instance, I built a site that regularly updates with links to the latest news and blog posts about professional sports teams in the state of Ohio.

Well, I decided late last night that it was time to do something similar for WoW. My new site, aptly named WoW Headlines, is a portal-style site that gathers in blog posts from all of the most popular WoW bloggers online and breaks their content down by class. You can even subscribe to RSS feeds for each class and get regular updates on new blog posts that have been written.


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Feb200916

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Ice Stone Karma

Apparently my harsh criticism of the Ice Stone bug has come back to bite me, so to speak. Early Friday morning the hard drive on my iMac had a total failure and had to go in to be repaired. Unfortunately, the closest Mac store is in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is a two-hour drive from where I live.

In the meantime, I’m stuck using my old Macbook for work and a little WoW but nothing intense like Raids or Heroics. What a bummer.


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Feb200905

1

Back From Vacation

I wanted to apologize for the lack of posts in the last week. I was on vacation and am now working on-site for a client so regular posting won’t resume until next week.

It’s been nearly two months since I started Alterac Volley and so far it’s been a lot of fun venting and discussing my thoughts on WoW. As I continue forward I want to keep providing quest guides (with more video supplements) and hopefully, if I can muster the courage, some thoughts being on a first time raider. I had my first 10 man PUG last weekend before I left town and it was interesting. I’ll be writing more about that in my next post.


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Jan200905

3

The Future Is Video


I’ve decided I want to dabble a little bit in video on this blog so the above is a test run. If you’re reading from an RSS reader you might want to visit the actual site in order to see the movie.

It’s a short (and low resolution, for now) clip of an Alliance attack on Thunder Bluff. Well, it’s really more of their escape than the attack but I just happened to log into my Bank Alt at the same time as this was going on. I hit record in time to see the last of them heading for the elevators.


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Dec200807

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Welcome to Alterac Volley

I’m on my second stint with World of Warcraft. My first time playing was pre-Burning Crusade and I didn’t make it beyond level 35 or 36 on my hunter main. I found the level grind to be incredibly frustrating (particularly as someone who predominantly played solo) and I hadn’t quite figured out the economics of the auction house so gold was also an issue. I ended up suspending my account a few levels shy of my first mount.

It was until the beginning of January this year that I re-activated my account again to give WoW another shot. My friend and I were looking for a game we could play together now that he had moved across the state and we settled on WoW because it was one of the few computer games I could play on my Mac and he could run on his PC.


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