Whew. I thought this blog was kind of expensive!
The Apologetics Index and Religion News Blog costs have to be prohibitive for Anton Heins who is on a medical disability.
Anton lives in the Netherlands. To say The Apologetics Index is a labour of love is trite. It is an immense volume of work. The [...]

Google gets a lot of praise and a lot of criticism.
They make what they do look easy, and they certainly make searching easy.
Now they’ve come out with a solution to slow down comment spammers. Most comment spammers are looking for google juice - a bump up in their search engine ratings and results.
This hyperlink attribute [...]

In getting ready to do the long task of looking at a lot of blogs for the 2005 demographic study, I’ve been thinking through growth and changes in how we communicate in the blogosphere. And since the last time I did that, there have been changes.
It’s harder to comment at many blogs now, an extra [...]

Darren of Living Room is blogging for 24 hours.
He has done it before. Last time he hoped to raise money so a Philippine family could have a ped-cab and earn a living. More than one family benefited because of the terrific response of his readers.
It is an axiom of this world that the worst things [...]

When a family of four was brutally murdered in New Jersey Friday, rumours started.
Hossam Armanious, 37, his wife, Amal Garas, 37, and their two daughters, Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8 were found gagged and stabbed. Armanious was a copitic Christian immigrant from Egypt.
During the funeral yesterday, tensions between Orthodox mourners and Muslims broke into yelling, [...]

It’s been 14 months since the first God-blog demographic study and while much has changed, much remains the same.
This snapshot of god-blogs in 2005 will have contributors in areas I am unfamilar - St. Blog’s, church blogs, and hopefully a better look at blogs outside the US. New technology, new platforms, and a healthy influx [...]

Much like Reporters without Borders a committee to protect bloggers has been formed.
The Committee to Protect Bloggers is devoted to the protection of bloggers around the world. In a host of countries around the world bloggers are routinely imprisoned for their activities. The blogging community should not leave the responsibility for their well-beingin others’ hands.
The [...]

Lately I’ve noticed a lot more bloggers wrestling with comment spam, trackback spam and recently both Irene Q and I had a bit of difficulty with domain name registrations.
Mine was because it lapsed and I was unaware, Irene because the hosting company wouldn’t give up the domain name to the rightful owner.
It is not uncommon [...]