Category: Blogging
Who’s Afraid of Marx?
Christopher Benson at Bensonian.org, has unveiled his introductory post on the blog tour of Terry Eagleton’s newest book, Why Marx Was Right. Organized by Yale University Press, Christopher’s site will have four different reactions each to a different chapter of...
Passive Agressive Blogging
So, one guy writes a post about how young people who were raised within the church are leaving behind Christianity and offers a few reasons why. Good post. Dude’s got a book coming out on the topic, and it looks...
Are Christian Blogs Boring?
Abraham Piper thinks so. Abraham is an astute observer of the Christian blogging community. And he has a hunch as to why: To assert that all men are brothers, that prejudice and racism are bad, and that nature should not...
Cutting through the Chatter: High Hopes for PostRank
It’s no secret that as the ranks of bloggers has increased, the need for more effective tools to find the truly hidden gems in the blogging community has increased as well. Those blogs that routinely produce excellent content–see here, here...
The False Meritocracy of Blogging
When I first started blogging, I would argue that it was as close to a meritocracy as I have ever seen. “The good stuff,” I argued, “almost always gets picked up and moved to the top of the heap. Good...
Google reading our Email?
Alister Cameron, who is guest blogging at Problogger, mined Google’s Blogsearch patent application to determine how Blogsearch ranks posts. It is somewhat surprising to a novice like me that blogrolls and feed readers actually matter. But the real stunner came...
Picking up the Threads
During my recent journey into the archives of Mere Orthodoxy I was confronted by the reality of the many conversations in the last year that I let die due to neglect. There were a lot. I was a terrible blogger...
GodBlogCon 2006 Looks Awesome
The GodBlogCon website is looking fantastic. The event promises to be even better than the historical one of the year last. Matthew Anderson is a stud for putting it together. We miss his insightful posts, but encourage his creativity and...
On GodBlogs and Priorities
It’s a crime that we have not linked to John Schroeder of Blogotional more here at Mere O. John has been one of the main supporters of Mere O since our inception and has never hesitated to link to us...
Joe Carter
When I think of blogs that are going to have a long-term impact, two qualities come to mind: they must be insightful and edifying, and they must be entertaining. Dull blogs will capture some people for a long time, but...