If you have clicked over from Christianity Today’s print column about weblogs, welcome!
If this is your first introduction to what we call the blogosphere, I encourage you to explore.

Blogging has it’s own social and technical language.
Anyone can blog. The technology is simple, the cost free. All it takes is the time and inclination.
As you explore, you’ll see how global, lively and diverse we are.
If you see a blog buzz word you don’t understand, here is a blog dictionary to help you get through any ‘insider’ language.

If you’d like a sense of what is out here in the god-blogs - who blogs - where we are - how we connect; then I’d encourage you to look at the five part survey of god-blogs, completed in November 2003.

Bloggers link. Part of the object of the exercise is to send you on your way to follow trains of thought. Blogging isn’t a commercial enterprise, and nothing is invested in hooking you into staying here at Bene Diction Blogs On. If you want to come back, you will.
The most recent entry is at the top of the page. You see that from the time stamp at the bottom of a post, so in that sense, a blog is chronological.

The best way to learn about blogs is to read them.
If you single-click on ‘comment’ under each post you’ll see action and re-action from readers and other bloggers. Comments can be the best part of a ‘post’ (daily entry).

The sidebar (on the left or right of the main text entries) usually has a blogroll, which is the individual bloggers favorite blogs. Hover over the links and you’ll see you are one click away from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Phillipines, Canada, the US. Every blogroll is as unique as the blogger. The blogosphere is a fairly big place that is getting bigger all the time.

Everything is open here.
You can read the log.
See what a site policy (etiquette) is.
You can access the archives.
You can comment.

Enjoy your journey.
While you explore I’m off to leap-blog.
(Surf. Link. Read. Explore blogs. Get caught up on what is going on.:^)


2 Responses to “And the blog goes on”

  1. 1 Neely 

    That is a great description! If I had read that a few years ago, I would have started blogging earlier. Blessings!

  2. 2 exclamation mark 

    Hey Bene,

    It’s been awhile since I’ve been online. It’s great to come back and find that you’re still such a blogging advocate. I think that long time bloggers often forget that there are new readers coming on all the time and many of them have little experience with the blogosphere. This entry will serve as both a quick “how to” and a friendly welcome aboard.

    As a warning, I might add that blogging is incredibly addictive, too!

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