Hey gang, here's the deal:

Stardock has created a blogging site called JoeUer.com. A lot of the underlying technology and philosophy of it is based on the GalCiv metaverse.

Right now you can crate your own blog. A blog basically a personal web page in which you can write whatever you want and it shows up on the page.  The features are still being added in. Today is the first day where you can actually create your own blog in real time.

Here's how: Go to JoeUser.com and logon using your GalCiv account info. Then click on the "account" tab at the very top and it'll let you create your own blog right then and there. You can start putting in articles right away.

Where things get interesting: In a week or so, we'll be adding in Blog Groups. Think of these as being empires in GalCiv.  Your blogs would combine together.

Example: Say Ray the Wanderer creates ray.joeuser.com and he can use that to write about whatever and they appear there.   Then say ricbayer joins up and has ricbayer.joeuser.com.  Now, Ray can create a blog gropu called say Fellowship of the ring which would be say fellowship.joeuser.com.  All members of Fellowship of the Ring would have their postings combined. In this way the "empire" works as a team. You can share stories, create strategies, show pictures of what you've done.

We don't have the blog groups part done nor do we have the usual personalization features (photo albums, resumes, links, etc.). That's coming in the next few weeks. Creating a blog on the fly creating your own domain at the same time was the tough part which is what we just got done.

Give it a try.

Have fun!