In many countries, bloggers are the reporters.
In many countries they pay a high price.
Reporters Without Borders has put together a handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents. How to put a blog together, how to stay safe, how to use ethical and journalistic standards, get your message out…
It’s online in five languages and has some amazing contributors.
The [...]

There has been a public inquiry, and while we await a final report some of the players get their day in court.
Paul Coffin pleaded guilty to defrauding the Canadian taxpayers out of over a million dollars in adscam. And he gets to do ethics lectures at Canadian university business seminars.
Coffin paid the taxpayers back, testified [...]

A friend of mine is staying put in Houston this weekend.
I wish he’d just get out.
The number of dead along the coastline of the Bay of Bengal is not known.
Thousands of people have fled, and have lost everything.
Over a thousand people have died from hurricane Katrina or the sequence of events after the storm.

I’m going to weigh in on what my eyes and instincts are telling me about the GodBlogCon that will be taking place at Biola University in October.
I weighed in when it first came up in March 2005.
Seven entries later, not much is different, even with all these months to prepare.
In spite of what appear to [...]

According to this online test Bene Diction Blogs On is 3% evil and 97% good.
Details of the phrases, vowels, points of interest and words here.
The Gematriculator is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage [...]

Street Prophets is a new internet community from Daily Kos, a place to discuss faith and politics. As you’d expect from its provenance, this isn’t going going to be your traditional “God is a Republican, liberals are evil” place. And since they’ve had the good taste to include both this site and connexions on their [...]

(Crossposted from connexions)
A conversation has sprung up as a result of this post which has to do with the morality (or otherwise) of the “market”. My position is that while completely free markets may be fine in theory, in practice they are subject to sin in the same way as the rest of creation and [...]

After a break for renovation, blogs4God makes a welcome return.