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Groupings from Technorati

The Low Authority Group [D-List Bloggers]
(3-9 blogs linking in the last 6 months)
The average blog age (the number of days that the blog has been in existence) is about 228 days, which shows a real commitment to blogging. However, bloggers of this type average only 12 posts per month, meaning that their posting habits are generally dedicated but infrequent.

The Middle Authority Group [C-List Bloggers]
(10-99 blogs linking in the last 6 months)
This contrasts somewhat with the second group, which enjoys an average age not much older than the first at 260 days and which posts 50% more frequently than the first. There is a clear correlation between posting volume and Technorati authority ranking.

The High Authority Group [B-List Bloggers]
(100-499 blogs linking in the last 6 months)
The third group represents a decided shift in blog age while not blogging much more frequently than the last. In keeping with the theme of the maturation of the blogosphere, it seems evident that many of these bloggers were previously in category two and have grown in authority organically over time. In other words, sheer dedication pays off over time.

The Very High Authority Group [A-List Bloggers]
(500 or more blogs linking in the last 6 months)
In the final group we see what might be considered the blogging elite. This group, which represents more than 4,000 blogs, exhibits a radical shift in post frequency as well as blog age. Bloggers of this type have been at it longer – a year and a half on average – and post nearly twice a day, an increase in posting volume of over 100% from the previous group. Many of the blogs in this category, in fact, are about as old as Technorati and we’ve grown up together. Some of these are full-fledge professional enterprises that post many, many times per day and behave increasingly like our friends in the mainstream media. As has been widely reported, the impact of these bloggers on our cultures and democracies is increasingly dramatic.

via: Ian’s Messy Desk

Serendipitous, finding this widget.:^)

Technorati is my blog search engine of choice and I use it a great deal for researching  articles for Spero News and a few other sites I participate with. I’ve been thinking about BDBO since returning from a recent trip and how I haven’t devoted time and attention to other bloggers and the myraid of good information online with this blog, which at the end of the day is an honest joy. The sense of neglect has been intermittently gnawing at the corners of thoughts and even my soul.

I haven’t worked to promote BDBO in the past few years because this is not a commercial endeavour and I’m not interested in winning or competing. There has been no need to promote, having gotten in on the early curve of blogging, I was and remain spared the considerable effort new bloggers face entering a blogsophere experiencing phenomenal growth.

And while I haven’t spent the last 4+ years analysing or stressing over BDBO content, I realize my posts are getting too long, to abstract and boring. They aren’t fostering conversation and welcoming others. I’ve been thinking of how as a faith blogger, a Christ follower I can continue to help readers who have been or are hurt, angry, wounded and turned off by fundamentalist Christians. I think anyone who professes faith has a responsibility to help others see that the vast majority of evangelicals are not condemning, outraged, authoritative, demanding, egotistical, rigid, obsessive ___fill in the blank. Most of us do not shoot the wounded.

And I haven’t been at all pithy.
Truth is I admire pithy, and there is no reason for me to be rambling except laziness and self-delusion. 
I said this last week, and I am going to say it again as a reminder to myself – BDBO would not be where it is if it wasn’t for others; bloggers, techs, readers; and  I haven’t  been giving back, focusing instead on news writing and research.
The only one that can make positive changes is me.
I do not deserve the attention and traffic growth BDBO continues to receive, and I am far less interested in the ongoing increase in hits/sessions than in taking careful moments to write that shorter post that points attention to good blogs and bloggers both inside my favorite front porch and familiar community and certainly outside it.
I have gotten sloppy and ignored diverse topics. I’ve been neglectful in not sharing what I see in the wider world. I have not always treated you as the gift you are, and as this medium has been for me.  I haven’t concentrated here at BDBO on the personal satisfaction of ecumenical linking; again, news writing (which has provided that) has led me away from personal joy of linking wonderful and new voices here, familiar wise ones and surprising ones.

While the amazement and newness of blogging wears off somewhat within six months to a year ( I think most bloggers can identify with the shift of settling into the rhythms and comfortableness of posting) and priorities shift, I remain in awe of this medium and the people that populate it. I haven’t said thank you to each of you that come over daily through an RSS feed, a link, a search in a long time, and I’m sorry. I’ve neglected taking a minute to send an email letting you know you are appreciated. 
Writing for readers isn’t hard, it’s a natural and personal extension of posting and my personality, just like it is in news and information writing.
And what is great about owning your own blog is that sometimes writing for yourself is part of the fun.:^)
Blogging isn’t quantum physics – You are the who and what makes me look forward to opening the BDBO template and email each day.

 As I Sleep

Lord Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, go back into my memory as I sleep. Every hurt that has ever been done to me, heal that hurt. Every hurt that I have ever caused another person, heal that hurt.

All the relationships that have been damaged in my whole life that I am not aware of, heal those relationships.

But, Lord, if there is anything that I need to do;

If I need to go to a person because he or she is still suffering from my hand, Bring to my awareness that person, I choose to forgive and I ask to be forgiven. Remove whatever bitterness may be in my heart, and fill the empty spaces with your love. Amen.