Well, it appears the Gomery gaggle has died down.

I thought my extreme tracker was broken.
Update: The media has good timelines on adscam, now Political Staples gives us a timeline on how blogs and media played their role this past week.

I have probably broken the partial ban laid out by Judge Gomery by linking to the US website. I’ll take my punishment.

This is a mid-sized, very Canuck blog. I’m not considered a Canadian pundit by any stretch of the imagination, and anyone who is anyone in Canadian blogging knows I’m an odd duck - a god-blogger.

So, over 2 thousand hits in a day to this small place says something about Canadians and publication bans. I’m not sure what.
The blog is quiet now, back to more normal traffic levels, and I can’t say I’m sorry about that.

Joe Carter over at the Evangelical Outpost has a decent post up on blogging. He apologises for punditing a bit too much when he started out, then links up to US bloggers blogging about blogging.

You get to rate the five most over rated and under rated blogs.
Hooorahhh

There is a look at evangelical blogs.

I think evangelicalism has become to associated with Republicanism.

Mon ami? There are evangelical Democrats? Who knew?

And the evangelical ghetto has come up again.
Clean up the neighbourhood already people, will ya?

And there is a look at popularity, for the adolescent mentality that wants to stretch and ‘gasp’ - grow.

It is interesting to see these topics cycle round again. And again.
What keeps it interesting is the voices.

Joe ends with this:

Also, I’m beginning to wonder if we evangelical bloggers shouldn’t start casting our nets a bit closer to home. We are so busy trying to impact the culture at large that we often overlook the culture at home. How many of our fellow evangelicals even understand what blogs are much less read them on a regular basis? Imagine what we might be able to accomplish if we were able to use our network and influence to shape the church as well as the world. That doesn’t mean we should form cyber-monasteries and holy huddles in which we do nothing more than debate differences in eschatology. But we might want to remember that the culture doesn’t just include the “lost” but those who have been “found” and are still in need of guidance.

If most evangelicals cast their nets any closer to home, they’ll trip.
It’s a reasonable point and one I concede simply because that is what blogs and bloggers do - stick with our tribe.

Every once in awhile, yearn to break free from our huddled masses or whatever - okay?

One more thing before I sleep - The Webbies -Web log awards - (it’s a gala, high profile event dahhling) is quite the contrast to Reporters Without Borders who are drawing attention to a different kind of blog event.
This isn’t ‘aren’t I marrrvallous dahhling’ blogs - these blogs are about freedom of expression in places in this world it is dangerous to do so. Check it out.