IreneQ brought something up in my comments section below I’d like to bring forward.

I mentioned that a couple of bloggers are reaching out this Christmas on their blogs to help us help others. LivingRoom is doing a blogathon to raise money for a pedicab in the Philippines and Waving or Drowning is giving others an opportunity to give goats to families. I think it’s a terrific idea.

I’d like to propose one more.
I was profoundly grateful for Cre8d’s Paypal button a few weeks ago and for your generousity that enabled me to get onto a hosting company.
I know I’m not the only blogger that has to weigh commitment and costs. Here is what Irene had to say.

It’s not just about classes and income, it’s also about exchange rates. Almost all hosting on the Net is sold in USD and, when converted, can be a fortune depending on the blogger’s means.

For example my hosting plan cost me USD$70 for a year. That may not seem much to American folks but after conversion it was $266 Malaysian. (USD$1=MYR3.80) It would be even more in Indonesian rupiahs or Philippine pesos. (USD$1 = 8,515 rupiahs or 55.7 pesos) In many ways getting paid hosting was a commitment for me, which is why I blogged for a year before even considering it.

The hosting for a year in Canadian dollars is about 200.00.
And IreneQ didn’t add on ISP costs all of us have.
Looking back…looking forward is a minister whose computer got fried in a lightening strike a month ago. Many of us miss him and are hoping he’ll be back soon.
He has a small parish, and his costs are the same or even higher than mine.
And what about some of our US friends? Because people have a computer, it doesn’t necessarily mean they could just head out and purchase it. Some can, and some have had theirs provided by others.

This US Thanksgiving and throughout Christmas, why not consider praying about this and if you can, help out a blogger or bloggers that God lays on your heart with their costs. I know that Religion News Blog and Apologetics Index out of the Netherlands which provides a valuable service to scholars and lay people all over the world is on disability and is struggling to keep going. There are many others.
Take a minute and go play with a currency converter.
If Andrew Sullivan can raise 80 thousand US in a week as a pundit blog, we can ease the burden of some god-bloggers, even if it never makes the headlines.

The Dullest Blog in the World
The Dullest Blog in the World is a year old. It made quite the splash when it debuted, and continues to garner all kinds of comments, perhaps because it is a splendid example of British wit, or maybe because it parodies the self-absorption any of us bloggers can slip into. Dunno. It always makes me laugh.
And how does the Dullest Blog in the World celebrate its BlogDay? Dully of course.