Hi all,
For some reason the output of Planet Blender broke. I am working on a different way of generating the page that should work around this problem. Until then, the output will look slightly odd because of wrong encoding. Please bear with me.
/Nathan
Today I received an e-mail from Reynante Martinez to add his blog feed to Planet Blender. Now that I’ve added the blog feed, we have exactly a hundred feeds featured on Planet Blender.
It’s great to see this aggregate grow slowly but surely over time. If you know of other Blender related blogs, then don’t hesitate to contact me. If the blog is in a different language from English, you can still send them in. Just be sure to mention what language it is in! Also the blog doesn’t have to be purely about Blender, but as long as it has somehow technical or artistical connections, any blog should do.
Thanks for all your interest. Let’s keep this a growing site.
I’ve added a Facebook icon for each blog entry on Planet Blender. With this you can directly share articles from blogs on Facebook. Enjoy this little extra!
The database server for Blenderstorm.org and Planetblender.org has been upgraded to a better solution. Already Blenderstorm is much more responsive, so that’s a good thing!
The bad thing of course is the increased hosting costs. If you want to help us out providing these services, you can donate directly towards the hosting bill by going to this link and make a donation. It would be great to be able to raise 360 dollars on a yearly basis. And of course, if we get more donations than that, we can ensure even better services by upgrading to even better performance for the database server!
/Nathan
Hi all,
Last night the database server got changed to something more responsive, but in the course of the event somehow the blog posts before the change seem to be not showing up. I verified in the database itself that they are still there, but for some reason they won’t show up. I’m on it to solve it ASAP. Thank you for your patience.
/Nathan
Planet Blender has been growing steadily over the past few months, with a few incarnations at the beginning and some new features during this period, and more to come of course!
I have today added the Blender related RSS feeds for a few very interesting Vimeo channels, as mentioned in http://vimeo.com/BlenderAnim/blog:1821
I hope that we can together make sure that our Planet keeps growing into a wealth of information.
The loyal readers of the Planet Blender feed probably have noticed half a day of errors in the feed. My host moved my account around between some machines, and some changes were made to home directory locations. The way I had set Planet Blender up naturally broke with that, but fortunately all is fine again.
Enjoy reading!
The blender.org servers are also down (talk about coincidence). The beloved administrator of our servers is working on it! Again, hang tight.
Blendernation.com has been unreachable for a while now. The ISP has been contacted and the problem will be solved ASAP. Just hang in there, alright?
update: blendernation.com is back online again.
I’ve implemented a very simple language ’switch’ for Planet Blender. By default, only English blogs will be show, when you go to ie. http://www.planetblender.org . In the left bar you can choose to view blogs from all languages though.
This means that from now on, I’ll accept blogs from all languages for aggregation on Planet Blender.
