I'm gimmickry
CVSTOS FIDEI tipped me off that my blog was mentioned in a New York Daily News article by Charles W. Bell called St. Blog's cyberpews packed. The article is actually more about both religious and non-religious blogging than concentrating on Catholic blogs. For those who don't know St. Blogs was coined by the first Catholic blogger Kathy Shaidle.
...There is an online fan club for Pope Benedict and diaries of seminarians. There are sites for lapsed Catholics, converts, overlooked saints, and priests offering their homilies to the whole wide world. Some are gimmicky - The Curt Jester promises "punditry, parody, polemics, politics and puns from a papist perspective."
Well gimmickry or not no publicity is bad publicity.
...One underrepresented category is Muslim blogs.
"We're working on it," a center worker said this week. "We've got a page listing a whole lot of sites that provide information about Islam and Muslims, including one for gays. But blogs? That's not up to us."
Blogging, he said, has not yet caught on among Muslims.
I heard that the jihadists are working on a javascript to blow up the computers of infidels first.
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You will notice that he didn't include any URLs for the directories or the sites. Bad form! I wonder which of the 3 or so St Blog's listings he looked at?
There'll soon be fewer such lists. John Bowden took over Mary Herboth's Catholic Blogs and Resourses. I've been running the St. Blog's Parish Aggregator. We teamed up right after the transition. Whenever a blog gets submitted to his list, I get the submission, too. More recently, John and I contacted Kathryn Lively about merging with the St. Blog's Webring. That project is a go, and once we clear some technical hurdles, the list, the aggregator, and the webring will be operating in unison. It's going to take some time, but it'll be cool when it's done. :)
The Curt Jester promises
"punditry, parody, polemics, politics and puns from a papist perspective."
I always think that it should be
"punditry, parody, polemics, politics and puns phrom a papist perspective."
Maybe I am too much of a modernist.
Two mistakes:
1. Your blog isn't gimmicky.
2. Millions of Muslims blog. They just don't blog in English about their religion, or at least, not as openly. Lots of other things, yes. I suspect a high percentage of trolls may be responsible, from reading some of the comments on Middle Eastern blogs by co-religionists.
Woo hoo!
I'm on Curt Jesters listing!
Now for something different...
If there are people looking to consolidate Catholic bloglistings, why don't someone take the lead and create a TTLB-type of ecosystem. We could use Saint names all the way to the bottom, ie, fetus?
Just an idea.
I've tried repeatedly to set up a TTLB ecosystem. N.Z. Bear is extremely backlogged on support requests. Heck, he hasn't even changed my blog's alternate URLs (which changed a couple years ago).
BTW, the St. Blog's Parish Aggregator will eventually have a lot of the same functionality as a TTLB community. I've talked to the main guy at Blogdigger about future features, and the future's looking bright. :)
Check out what's currently there:
http://groups.blogdigger.com/StBlogsParish
Thanks funky d.!