Comments on: Christian blogs

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:35:12 +0000

MAnaged to get to a PC to find out what the concern was over. Ultimately if your RSS feed is published on your website you are asking for it to be included in all kinds of services both christian and not so I am surprised by this level of concern.

I will remove any blogs that are incorrectly in the blogdom list.

If anyone can send me a list of blogs I should remove I will do so (if you ask me to remove someone elses blog I reserve the right to not do so without discussing it with them and/or a group of christian bloggers of my choosing)

Have just been trying to servet the Christian blogosphere here and am sorry for any offense. Did not see these comments till today.

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:12:17 +0000

Personally, I think you are going a bit overboard here. I just stumbled across the BoG thing and thought it was an okay idea. None of your reasons even crossed my mind (and I doubt they would cross the minds of many people). I just thought “hey, simple links to Christian bloggers.” I don’t have to go to their sites if I don’t want to, but if I want to browse it makes it easy to go out and read new things. As you said, much of the content is not stuff I want to read, so I either don’t go to their site or just move on to the next one. As far as making a “list without their permission [being] morally dubious” I would definitely have to disagree. Blogs are public sites, things that you want private, you make private. I do agree that if requested, links should be removed.

I guess I just don’t understand why you are so up-in-arms over this. Dialogue between blogs is always a good thing.

Anyway, my two cents.
Matt

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:29:47 +0000

Dave:

I don’t know if I was the originator or not.
I’ve always used a small g for god.

I just found myself on the Blogdom of God.
I’d asked to be removed I was told it was done when the project first started.

To be honest, I’m annoyed and disappointed to find my blog there.
Good choice of words Ali.

Once I get over me I have to hold out hope other bloggers that don’t want to be in the Blogdom are listened to.
Now I wait again, and see if I’m heard this time.:^(

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:42:31 +0000

I’m wondering who is on the new and improved Blogdom list. I’d rather not be there. It feels off to me, I dislike blog promotion, and this feels like marketing, commercial and glossy.

I have a small list of UK Christian blogs, just a list of links here:
http://www.quantumtea.com/ukgodblogs/
The main way it grows is people email me and ask to be on there.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:09:04 +0000

You’re right Funky Doug – though I have tried to trackback to his haloscan trackbacks and his site itself but I couldn’t make them work. I suspect the fault is this end – I’ve not had a lot of success making WordPress trackback – probably me. I’ll go and add a comment in the old fashioned way.

By: Funky Dung

Funky Dung — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:04:27 +0000

make “know” “address”

By: Funky Dung

Funky Dung — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:03:45 +0000

Last I checked, you hadn’t tracked back to Adrian’s post. How is he to know people’s concerns if he isn’t aware of them?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:29:10 +0000

Personally I find such aggregator blogs useless, they gather loads of “Christian blogs” content, yuk, 19/20 are of no interest to me, turn me off, make me sad I’m associated with them… Surely the whole point of blogs is that you select the people that you want to read… and not have someone else shove the lot in your face!

By: Johann

Johann — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:07:45 +0000

I entirely agree with you Dave. The whole thing sounds very dubious and unChristian.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:14:41 +0000

Wood – don’t worry, one day we’ll get you a special aggregator all to yourself.

I’m still thinking public aggregators are a grey area. There’s more and more software coming in enabling people to syndicate your content on their sites – they may be doing it for good reasons or just to get google rankings for themselves or other dubious reasons. That’s why I’m wondering whether the time has come to get permission before any content from someone else’s site goes onto an aggregator.