Quick note regarding the post below.
Deep Calls to Deep changed the title of his post.

Steve, this weekend was the first time I’ve been to your blog.
I think your question is a fair, open and honest one.
If it is any consolation, those of us that question the efficacy of technology, marketing or openly express uncomfortableness with numbers or criteria for ‘entry’ can be met with defensiveness. It’s merely part of the back and forth of blogging I think.
With all the digging I’ve done again lately, I don’t see more than about 2 thousand god-blogs out there. I’ve seen some quit and new ones start, but overall growth is slow.

Believe it or not, in the three years I’ve watched god-blogs, I’m finding the newer technologies that help organize the faith groups, more chaotic than a few years ago. We’ve moved beyond just portals and blog rolls.
I think that is part of the evolution of blogging.

We are all different, interested and gifted in all kinds of areas of life.
Blogging is fun, and how do we celebrate that and ask questions without feeling attacked or guilty or uncomfortable?

I don’t have an answer to that exactly. I guess we pick our discussions, learn to laugh a bit at ourselves and above all model the hardest thing of all – grace. And I think you showed civility and maturity in the back and forth of this topic this weekend. Good on you. Blog on!

PS: We eventually find our favorite voices. But having been at this three years, may I give you a hint?
Take some time, hit someone’s blogroll and start leaping.
There is wonder and joy and pleasure in hopping around, a journey without end really. Andrew Carrega of bloggedy blog did a leap around about a year and a half ago and found less than six degrees of separation. As new blogs come on line and as the god-blogosphere grows slowly, maybe we are up to six or more.
In your exploration you’ll find the most amazing bloggers from all over the world. I can vouch first hand about that.:^)

Update: Dr. Mark Byron weighs in and asks some good questions about ranking systems providing links. This is a subject that seems to come up once a year or so, and that’s reasonable given new blogs are finding their way.
Mark looks at it from the perspective of the inflation in the dot. com. boom.
He is also the blogger that came up with the term ‘evangelical ghetto.”

I didn’t link up earlier to Rev. Mike’s take on ranking and hits, in particular the TTLB Alliance.
I do want to hear what people that understand technology or have been blogging for awhile have to say. Asking questions is a good way to generate discussion and learn. I think it is a way we can help each other. (His title is a joke, in our back and forth we have posted and talked about blogging not being about ‘winning.’)