Monthly Archives: January 2005

dedication is costly

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 … Continue reading

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Google bites back

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 … Continue reading

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Reaching out

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 … Continue reading

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For Southeast Asia

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 … Continue reading

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It’s like spitting on their graves

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 … Continue reading

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God Blog Demographics 2005

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 … Continue reading

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Protecting bloggers

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 … Continue reading

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Nefarious doings

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 … Continue reading

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