Author Topic: The Blockland Inquirer [News Blog]  (Read 2187 times)

Project Synopsis
The Blockland Inquirer (TBI) is a news blog built for Blockland for the purpose of news, reviews, and opinion, which can be read by players to inform and entertain.
It is designed to offer a quality journalistic perspective on Blockland current events. This concerns forum happenings from videos, to clans, to drama, to general information regarding add-ons, RTB, or Blockland in general. It also covers in-game events such as server stories, like New Years parties and other happenings.

This blog was built on the 12th of July 2011. The response to articles is growing, and the interest in reading the blog has been increasing steadily. I believe this may offer a better insight into the world we know as Blockland, and even surprise you with how in-depth some aspects of the game are. While Blockland is just a game, it has its own micro-community where SHEET HAPPENS (Haha im so clever).

Interesting stories we broke in the past:

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ICYGAMMA IS A HACKERIST AND HE IS GIVNG OUT VIRUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
icygamma is the devils pawn
ADDON REVIEW: mctv by uxie
BREAKING NEWS!!!! REGIS PHILEMAN DEAD!!!!
blockland forums scare away another nice player
SPAMMER WATCH: new spammers found on forums

TBI took a break for a few months after I fell out of sync and some mess needed to be sorted. We have returned to service.

Contribution
We are open to contribution again. Please PM me for details.


Q&A

Do we really need a news source? Isn't the forum good enough?
While the forum is a good resource, it doesn't necessarily cover the information you need, and is less convenient when you are trying to inform yourself about recent happenings. The community is no doubt good for sharing and receiving information, but doesn't always cover an in-depth brown townysis of events. TBI rounds up relevant information, that isn't watered down by forum discussion, something the forum can't provide.

How do I know what I am reading is factual and unbiased?
We do considerable research into our topic, and often contact the people involved to get better backgrounds on stories. We present the information we find. For those concerned, all interviews conducted are archived and quotes are written out word for word.
TBI does not tolerate bias, and will not write a story if it poses an extreme conflict of interest. News articles are kept separate from review and opinion. We follow general journalism practices used globally.

I have a concern about the content published, what can I do?
TBI will receive and investigate all complaints, taking every message very seriously. Please contact Colten on the forums via PM, I almost always ignore emails, and don't bitch in the comments form about the site if its unrelated to the article.

The link
Was thinking of buying a proper domain but the blogspot one worked for long enough, so a co.cc in comparison is fine. Who gives, just read the site.

http://theblocklandinquirer.blogspot.com/
« Last Edit: November 13, 2011, 04:24:06 PM by Colten »

finally.
this is much better a news blog then other ones this community has had.

finally.
this is much better a news blog then other ones this community has had.
Thank you for the positive review. Its great to know theres kindness in the community :)

heard about it on barnabas' server and it is indeed a reliable news source

* PurpleMetro will start to know nothing about this forum and listen to everything this news blog says


what the hell is wrong with news blogs and me?



YES IT'S FRENCH

translation: "access denied"

then a notification tell me that the site tryed to put something on my computer

what the hell is wrong with news blogs and me?



YES IT'S FRENCH

translation: "access denied"

then a notification tell me that the site tryed to put something on my computer
Wow your antivirus sucks


maybe
Maybe? I went on here and nothing happened to me. Infact the tab is still open. SO there is no MAYBE. Your antivirus.. S-U-C-K-S

Maybe? I went on here and nothing happened to me. Infact the tab is still open. SO there is no MAYBE. Your antivirus.. S-U-C-K-S

why would it suck? I went on this news blog 2 days ago

this must be reliable if you got a first hand image of HITELER!!

this must be reliable if you got a first hand image of HITELER!!

why are you here? go to the room, I'm coming in a second

why are you here? go to the room, I'm coming in a second
ew you have pic of ikethegeneric in your sig
oh wait......................... .. Ike the generic has an alt. Oh this is new to me :o

great news sourse may i submit an article