Entries from September 2007

25 September 2007

Blogs being hijacked

It looks like several blogs are being hijacked by http://www.blogmad.net/
One of those that has been hijacked is Priestly Goth Blog, but there are several others.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Any ideas about how this Blogmad outfit can be stopped?

22 September 2007

Capitalism versus communalism — who owns the blogosphere?

Who owns the African blogosphere? asks Ndesanjo Macha, reporting on the Digital Citizens Indaba held in Grahamstown earlier this month. But some of the questions posed go far further than the blogosphere and touch every aspect of our lives.
Macha quotes Daudi Were telling this story
Colonialists would often turn up at an [...]

22 September 2007

Blogging introspection: why do bloggers blog?

Anja Merret writes that bloggers blog because they want to make a mark on history, and perhaps in some way immortalise themselves.
Listening to a talk on TED by Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart, a start-up that has successfully developed such products as TypePad and more recently Vox for bloggers, I started considering a whole [...]

19 September 2007

Christianity and Neopaganism Synchroblog

The September Synchroblog is to be on the theme of Christianity and Neopaganism.
A “Synchroblog” is where several different people blog on the same general theme on the same day, and post a list of links to others blogging on the same day. This makes it possible to look at the same general topic from several [...]

14 September 2007

New Romanian Patriarch visited South Africa

Metropolitan Daniel was elected as the sixth patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church on Wednesday (September 12th). Daniel will succeed Patriarch Teoctist, who died in July.
On 23 January 1994 Metropolitan Daniel visited the Church of St Nicholas of Japan in Brixton, Johannesburg with bishop Nifon. There was also a Romanian priest who was working at [...]

12 September 2007

The medium and the message

In a post on Lost in translation, Brad notes some of the limitations of blogs and e-mail as communications media. You can communicate with people by blog or e-mail for a long time, and yet still miss something because you have never met them face to face. Rick Twigg makes a similar point in this [...]

11 September 2007

Blogger versus WordPress

After six months I still haven’t made up my mind whether to switch completely from Blogger to WordPress.
Some of the things in Blogger have been fixed (clicking on interests, books, films etc in people’s profiles works again), but with word press I’m seeing this message more and more often:
Server Error
The following error occurred: [code=SERVER_RESPONSE_RESET] [...]

10 September 2007

Missionary is a dirty word

On Daylight: a conversation about all things bright (hey, doesn’t he know that the atheists have copyrighted “bright” ;) Stephen writes about the web-rating site that regards “missionary” or “missionaries” as dirty words.
I noted the same phenomenon on my LiveJournal, where it said:
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
* missionary (2x)
* [...]

9 September 2007

Stuff to do on Sunday if you’re bored

According to An unfinished soul, one can read about various philosophical movements on Wikipedia between laundry loads.
But it also seems that more people on Google are looking for “What to do on Sunday if your bored“. Do they really mean “your bored”? Shouldn’t it be “your board”? As in, How many boards would the Mongols [...]

7 September 2007

Orthodoxy lite draws evangelicals

When trying to discover what the “emerging church” movement was about, I got the opportunity to hear one of the fundis on it, Brian McLaren, speak in Pretoria. As I’ve noted in this blog and elsewhere, most of what he said was pretty familiar, and most Orthodox Christians would find little to disagree with in [...]