Thank God for geeky ministers.:^)
To be honest I don’t pay much attention to stats here at BDBO anymore. So I am really glad Tall Skinny Kiwi blogs about more than missions because I haven’t been over to Feedburner in ages.
Feedburner is what I use here at BDBO and I wasn’t paying attention to deadlines for transferring the feed over to my Google account. BDBO doesn’t have ads, so there is no AdSense to fuss about, and I don’t salivate over stats anymore, so I wouldn’t have known (or remembered) I had to transfer the feed.
The transfer went swimmingly, I saw a dramatic drop in the blue chicklet on the sidebar last week and I admit my bloggy heart dropped. I had no idea why the numbers went down. Now I know. It’s updated and I’ve had a chat with myself about priorities.
 So God bless Andrew who not only posted the Moving Feeds from Feedburner to Google  reminder, he had a sound piece of advice in his 15 Blogging Tips for 2007 that I’d be wise to heed when I have a blog vanity attack.
15. Don’t Love To Be First.
Coming first in the Google race can be an idol and it can also be inappropriate if someone else should be there. Sometimes its good NOT to be number one. There is a place for getting your post found and perhaps your post deserves that waterfront location on the search engine results BUT there is also a place for allowing others to be first or in control of their own story. I hope that you will find yourself on top of the hill during 2007 to say the things God has put on your heart. But I also hope you have the wisdom and constraint to bow out of the rankings and push others up above yourself. You don’t always have to be first. Don’t be like Diotrephes, who loved to be first (3 John 1:19) but rather mimic John the Baptist who decided to decrease so that Christ might increase.
Or in the words of George Whitefield, “May the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified.”
The deadline for updating your Feedburner account is February 27th.
