The Herald of Blaugust 2026 – Blaugust Should Go On!

That point is quick approaching.  It is going to as soon as once more be Blaugust.  The annual custom for greater than a decade will proceed.

Blaugust 2026

With the tragic passing of Mark “Belghast” Temple, the occasion’s founder, at the beginning of the month it felt extra essential than ever to maintain this occasion going with a purpose to bear in mind him.

It’s odd to be doing this with out him although.  His absence is felt in myriad other ways.  Whereas he had stepped again a bit and let a few of the regulars run the occasion final 12 months, he was nonetheless there and filling loads of small roles, a few of which we’re nonetheless discovering.

Total nonetheless, the format is identical.  We’ve got the identical Discord server, the signup routine is identical, and the occasion… nicely, the occasion is what it has turns into over the past half dozen iterations.  Whereas Blaugust began as a little bit of an ironman contest to see who may publish each single day in August again in 2014, it has mellowed a bit since then.

Blaugust of 2014

Via a dozen Blaugusts… and one Blapril again throughout Covid… the occasion has moved from its mildly hardcore, gamer centered origins to a wider, extra inclusive, and fewer demanding gathering of bloggers, bringing them collectively to rejoice and cross-pollinate.

We haven’t gone completely delicate.  There’s nonetheless an medal for posting all 31 days.  And I’m there for that, having managed it for each Blaugust up to now.  However there’s loads of room for individuals who haven’t reached fairly that degree of journaling mania.

However I’ll put a cease to my meandering… for a bit no less than, there shall be an entire months of that for Blauguast… and get to some particulars.

Listed here are they key hyperlinks to get began.

Within the splendid world, you’ll learn that first publish, the go to the sign-up web page and enter your info, and be part of us on the Blaugust Discord server.

Then, when the occasion begins on August 1st, you’ll share hyperlinks to your efforts on the server and on social media with the #Blaugust or #Blaugust2026 tags and plenty of folks, or perhaps just some extra folks than normal, will drop by and skim your stuff or view your movies or no matter it’s you select to do with a purpose to take part.

However you are able to do as a lot or as little of that as you need… or do one thing else.  I attempt to make an effort to go to every of the participant websites and perhaps go away a remark if I’ve one thing helpful so as to add

I’ll even be plodding alongside and doing what I usually do each different month of the 12 months.  However typically it’s good to have some construction, a signpost or three alongside the way in which to assist information you thru the thirty-one days.

As with previous years, we have now a weekly subject to provide you one thing to deal with.

Blaugust 2026 Schedule

Blaugust begins on a Saturday this 12 months, not that the day of the week is especially vital, and ends on a Monday, and someplace in between you may inject posts in regards to the above or anything you want.  It’s as much as you.

That mentioned, we do have a rule this 12 months about AI, which is fairly easy.  In case your content material is wholly AI generated, you aren’t going to search out welcome on this occasion.

If you happen to use AI to proof your work… and perhaps we should always distinguish this to level straight at Giant Language Fashions, or LLMS, as a result of one of the insidious facets of the LLM bubble is them appropriating the time period “AI” after which claiming that something automated is actually AI so you may’t be towards their terrible work since you use a spell checker or Grammarly or another bullshit… or to generate concepts or perform some research and even generate a picture to assist illustrate your level, you then’re good.

But when your plan is to current, unedited and an analyzed, the output of some LLM like Co-Pilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or no matter, then simply go try this some place else.

LLM output is bland and soulless and at any time when I see any individual use it I simply transfer on.  That additionally it is continuously mistaken and is inclined to easily making issues up simply makes the scenario all the more serious.

Unexamined LLM output is simply rubbish polluting the web and individuals who use it with none reflection have demonstrated that they don’t care about regardless of the subject at hand is.  Don’t be considered one of them.

Is that clear sufficient?

Anyway, just a few different folks have been masking the approaching occasion, so it is best to in all probability examine them out as nicely.

There are extra on the market I’m certain, however these have been the folks already in my feeds.

As anticipated, I shall be alongside for the trip and shall be doing the one factor I usually do, which is making an attempt to keep up an HTML formatted record of the blogs which might be a part of the occasion.  As of my posting this, there are 46 websites on the record, together with Zelibeli, who’s breaking new floor by utilizing the YouTube posts function.  I didn’t even know that was a factor till she introduced it up.  You may weblog on YouTube.  What a rustic!

Anyway, that is the record set out alphabetically.

1. An Archaeopteryx
2. Aywren’s Nook
3. Ben Ramsey
4. Byte Vortex
5. Chasing Dings!
6. Comprises Average Peril
7. Cubic Creativity
8. Dave Henry Weblog
9. Endgame Viable
10. fluidline.neocities.org
11. GamerLady P Weblog
12. Players Esoteric
13. Gaudete Theology
14. Geek on a Harley
15. Gridranger’s weblog
16. hamatti.org
17. I Can’t Consider a Identify for this Web site
18. inconsistent.software program
19. Indiecator
20. Stock Full
21. Lameazoid.com
22. Fortunate Instar
23. Mailvaltar
24. Mar Qaroll’s The Marrowing!
25. Matt’s Weblog
26. MMO Informal
27. MMO One Evening
28. MogBlog
29. Nerdy Bookahs
30. not all those that wander are misplaced
31. owlblog
32. Portrait of a….
33. Quail Creations
34. Raintree Ruckus
35. Shadowz Summary Gaming Weblog
36. TAGN
37. Taylor movie crit
38. Via Wolfy’s Eyes
39. Troy Press
40. Ubergeek Kelly’s World
41. Varun Barad
42. Why I Sport
43. Phrases of the AgingGamer
44. Phrases Beneath My Identify
45. Zelibeli
46. 世界のねじを巻くブログ

There’s loads of time left to enroll.  August continues to be nearly two weeks away.