Gospelcom.net has introduced a blog called Think Christian.

I don’t see a comment section. There are 6 contributors.

Portal upgrade
I also saw a quick mention at Gospelcom.net that portal blogs4God will be undergoing a major tech friendly upgrade. A drupal install will be used, bloggers will have to sign up and submit their own stories.

Submit several published stories and you get invited as a moderator with your own blog – or at least access to a category blog … I can’t figure out which way to go there yet.

The portal has been through a lot of volunteer moderators since it’s inception. The new format will provide a firewall for the owner and more technical control.
With 1250 blogs signed up, the portal averages 386 hits a day.

Peters promises to attempt these features, possibly in response to the scraping of god-blogs by the Blogdom of God/Alliance and the rise of aggregators, podcasts and the scattering and de-centralization of god-blogs despite the Alliance/Blogdom attempts to scrape blogs together. It is continuing to have problems with accuracy and it is impossible at this time to determine an remotely realistic picture of the aggregator usage.
b4G owner Dean Peters will have more control with this upgrade with what US blogs he decides to showcase.

Submit nothing and create a great blog with compelling content and you may find yourself linked automagically. For example, Think Christian recently comes to mind … so does the Michael Spencer, the InternetMonk and PyroManiac, Phil Johnson.

This will solve several issues:

* For those who like to drop me love notes with “hey, I wrote about x …” now you can post an excerpt with some witty verbage as to why we should link on over.

* For those craving daily content, you’ll get it - in a yummy XML format if you like.
* For those wishing to contribute, you can volunteer to publish/not publish submissions without the cost of indentured servitude.

* For those who change blogs as frequently as you change shirts – you now have a way of updating your link w/out having to jump through flaming hoops.

* For those who want to change their profile but have forgotten their password - no need to worry - the new system will help you solve that problem w/out having to wait for me to intervene manually.

* For those who can’t use ‘the list’ because of the ever growing cadre of orphaned blogs, well, can’t stop the litter, but we can at least keep the list more current.

* For those who like to complain, I’m going to turn on the comments feature — at least I’m going to give them a try.

* For those of you who’ve moderated and/or provided auxillary services waiting for me to hand-code something, moving to Drupal will give us all the ability to use many existing modules - and to roll or own as needed (heck, you can write it and ‘command’ me to install it:-).

* For those who like that we don’t run Google adsense - that free ride is over. Moving to a beefier server with a hardware firewall ain’t cheap.

* For those spamming me and my server into oblivion – to0 b@d chvMp, now you’ll have to write something that really rocks if you want me to even consider your post about body part enhancements, online poker, drugs, naked girlies and whatever other crud you’ve been wasting my bandwidth.

* For everyone else, hopefully a good, current, up-to-date showcase of what the Christian blogosphere is up to.

No word on when the change on the three year old portal will take place.