As I have tried to sort out how GodBlogCon came to be weighted so far to the American, conservative Calvinist Christian evangelical viewpoint, I’ve decided that there were some immediate challenges that can be addressed for the future and some problematic purpose-driven issues that won’t be as easy to resolve. Some have questioned why [...]

Someone elsewhere seemingly making a joke about my use of the term GodBlogCon briefs, I will use the term “boxers” here.
I’m running late this morning, so I will just address the issue Richard Hall of Connexions raised about inclusiveness and beyond the borders.
Last night, John Mark Reynolds seemed to acknowledge that it was mostly a [...]

And the day for GodBlogCon has arrived, too. The main question is which will be more exciting, the convention or Jonathan Kellerman’s novel “Twisted” which I started reading shortly after takeoff this morning at 7:05 a.m.?
My first order of business is a nap — well maybe a light lunch, too. I did, after [...]

Your Hidden Talent

You have the natural talent of rocking the boat, thwarting the system.
And while this may not seem big, it can be.
It’s people like you who serve as the catalysts to major cultural changes.
You’re just a bit behind the scenes, so no one really notices.

What’s Your Hidden Talent?
via Ian’s Messy Desk

Things we value:
Democracy
Non-exclusivity
Attribution
Transparency – disclosure
Innovation
Personalization
Accessibility
Honesty
Creativity
Knowing who people are
Editorial Independence
Connectedness
Anonymity
Things we devalue:
Power law economics
Lack of Attribution
Anonymity
Wuffie-hoarding
Links for money
And this:
We also talked about how our social norms might shift as the blogosphere grows, what it means to feel cheated by someone apparently giving their own opinion, after which we find out they are being paid to [...]

Several blog portals list blogs by country - the fomer EatonWeb - now BlogFlux and Globe of Blogs are a couple as well as country portals or aggregators that can be found in search engines.
An excellent source of international blogs is Global Voices Online.
I really like thier header - The world is talking. Are you [...]

Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny existed and still exists as the philosophy that embraces American history as a whole. Manifest Destiny is an intangible ideology that helped created American history. In its simplest form, Manifest Destiny can be defined as, “A Movement.” More specifically, it would be the systematic body of concepts and beliefs that powered American [...]

The number of people estimated to have died in a 7.6 quake that ripped through a thousand miles of mountians in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.
The death toll could be as high as 18 thousand people. Hundreds are injured, the International Red Cross and World Vision are providing medical care, food and shelter as aftershocks continue [...]