To my tastes, Mark726's EVE Travel is far and away the finest EVE blog on the in-game universe of EVE Online or, for that matter, on any EVE topic. That he has chosen to write a peaceful tourist guide to "Sightseeing in the Cluster" is a bonus stroke of pure whimsical genius.
From concept to execution -- Wordpress theme choice and adaptation, artwork, endlessly inventive images, and in-character voyaging capsuleer narrative and exposition -- EVE Travel is the epitome of what all good MMO writing ought aspire to be: good in-world photojournalism.
How much time, how much of our lives do we who play this and other MMO "games" end by spending simply "dwelling" in the virtual realities they present? Scary to think about. But, however cynical a pure keyboard jockey we might style ourselves, these fictive places become to varying degrees real to us, as they never can to "outsiders," to non-gamers, who never venture in; nor to peek-a-boo gamers, who come and go so quickly, who knows what they're thinking.
Most all of us can reel off such remembered imaginary places, as real at least in recollection as vivid dreams but so much more real in that we have traversed these dreams in common with so many others.
