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.
Wow. Reading this entry at Jollyblogger really got me thinking. Righteous indignation is one thing. Self-righteous snobbery is another. I think I tend toward the latter and I need to work on that (no need to comment, John).
Advice to Christian Bloggers from G. K. Chesterton
This month's Gilbert Magazine (a magazine devoted to G. K. Chesterton) has a good little short piece called "Bad Christian Journalism and the G. K. Chesterton Remedy," by J. Fraser Field. Field starts with an example of what he considers "Bad Christian Journalism."
I’d like to welcome Father Michael Darcy to the blogosphere. He’s a member of the
Oratorian Community of Saint Philip Neri and is a campus minister at the Ryan Catholic
Newman Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He’s an orthodox priest and a cool
guy. Check out his blog.