Due to my lengthy inability to post, I’ve fallen quite behind on current events.
I’m not going to try to cover everything I missed, though. Other people have done
that. Here are the links to the stories I would have blogged.
As bloggers go, I’m still basically an infant. I haven’t been doing this very long
and I don’t really associate with the blogging crowd outside of a few sites on my
blogroll. In other words, I’m still learning a lot about this crazy little thing
called blog.
For instance, I’m just now discovering just how important comments are. I don’t
get many, so I suppose it’s understandable that I missed their full worth. Anyhow,
it seems clear that a blog without a comments system is only half a blog.
There is, IMHO, a fascinating discussion going on at GetReligion
about the impact, or lack thereof, of stories about the global priest scandal in
the Dallas Morning News.
There a few folks on my blogroll who I’d love to see weigh in on the issue, including
(but not limited to) Narwen,
Pontificator,
Fr. Mike, and
Jeff Miller,
The
Catholic gun didn’t go off: Silence greets Dallas News series
Once there was a man who lived in a lighthouse on the foggy Atlantic.
That’s the start of a very, very old sermon illustration. I thought of it this past
weekend as I read the first chunks of the sprawling Dallas Morning News reports
on the globalization of the clergy sex-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.
To those of you who do not use a blogging service/tool that automatically pings a tracking service, I recommend ping-o-matic. I use it whenever I post so that people know there's fresh content on my blog.
If I grovel on hands and knees will you use it?
This post got me thinking and got me to expand my blogroll about beyond the echo
chamber. On a side note, I’m thinking of creating a separate roll for blogs that
don’t ping the right server(s) for Blogrolling to alert me to updates. It’s a real
drag not knowing who’s fresh and who’s not.
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Homogenity: A Cure for the Stale Blogroll
Click through some people’s blogrolls and you’d get the impression that the blogosphere
was comprised of nothing but middle-class, white American males whose only interest
in life is discussing politics. These bloggers get trapped within an echo chamber,
reading post after post that says the same things they think in the same way they
would have said it themselves. The links in their blogrolls could simply be replaced
with ditto marks and it wouldn’t affect them at all.
My first brush with this atheist blogger has been a pleasant one. It’ll be interesting
to discover how I feel as I read more posts.
Woke up this morning and discovered that I have been linked by a Christian blog.
Of course, I am honored. It’s all part of my insidious plan, you know–get Christians
reading my blog as an attempt to enhance the dialogue between the religious and
the irreligious, and maybe everybody will finally admit that we have much more to
gain from embracing our shared humanity than from playing metaphysical war games
with each other.