Google hacked?

When I tried to check my Blogger blog, Notes from underground, and my Gmail account, I got this message:

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BlogCatalog group for Orthodox Christian bloggers

I recently started a BlogCatalog group for Orthodox Christian bloggers, because I looked for one and there wasn’t one.
BlogCatalog is one of a number of social blogrolling sites on the Web, like MyBlogLog, which let you keep lists of blogs you like to vist, and also see who has visited yours recently.
At one time I [...]

Where have all the bloggers gone?

Where have all the bloggers gone?
Gone to Twitter every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
It seems that entropy has struck the blogosphere, well, actually the whole Internet.
A couple of years ago I was asking why there were so few black bloggers. Now I’m asking why the number of bloggers is diminishing. More [...]

Two January Synchroblogs

There are two January synchroblogs that other bloggers may be interested in.
1. Interfaith Synchroblog on “Religion and science”
There will be an interfaith synchroblog on the general theme of “Religion and science” on 8 January 2008.
If you would like to take part put up your blog post on 7th or 8th January, and as soon as [...]

Finding interesting stuff in the blogosphere

People are writing lots of interesting things in blogs nowadays, while other internet forums, like Usenet newsgroups descend into banality and flame wars.
Of course there are lots of banal and boring blogs out there too, so how does one find the good stuff?
Three years ago, one of the key tools for this was Technorati. It [...]

The new WordPress dashboard

The new WordPress dashboard is all very well, but how do I get to see my blog?
Maybe if I post this I’ll be able to see it, but does that mean I have to post something every time I want to read it?

Blog comment day

Yesterday was blog comment day.
Don’t tell me you missed it.
In case you did, you were supposed to comment on at least five different blogs, including two blogs on which you hadn’t commented before.
But never mind, I’m sure bloggers won’t mind if you do it today, or tomorrow, or any time in future. Most bloggers appreciate [...]

Still on line for now

In spite of the bandwidth warnings, my internet access hasn’t been cut yet — perthaps thanks to the “Noscript” add-on to Firefox that several people recommended, which seems to stop a lot of the bandwidth-hogging unsolicited videos that have become so common recently.
It’s probably too good to last, and to conserve bandwidth I’ll only be [...]

Bandwidth leachers

This may be my last blog post this month, because i just got a notice saying that I was running out of bandwidth, and unless my wife gets a fat bonus or something , we probably won’t be able to afford any more.
Our bandwidth usage seems to go up every month, and it seems that [...]

Liturgy, saints, and postmodern discourse

Jonathan writes in Thicket and thorp
the “otherness” of the Liturgy should break into our language, into our ways of thinking in/about the world. For example, the language of loving one’s enemies, of forgiveness, is continually brought before us, clashing with our normal (unfortunately) discourse, in which forgiveness and love of the enemy is a foreign [...]