So, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here. I’m not dead, though you would be forgiven for believing that my blog is dead. It is, really, in a way. Or perhaps comatose. I had to upgrade WordPress to the latest version today and while doing so I realized,…
What is up … blogging brother?
So, it’s been a wee little while since I last posted. Some of you have contacted me via email to find out what’s happening and to be sure everything’s okay. I appreciate that — I really do. So I was sitting here tonight with pretty much nothing to do except…
Present, and half accounted for at TIMC…
As previously noted, this is my week for presenting at GospelCom’s meetup: “The Internet Ministry Conference.” I successfully captured audio for today’s presentation: “Relationship Blogging.” So as soon as I can get my audio editor software working, I’ll upload it as an mp3 file, and I will also upload a…
The I Dig Jesus Meme: My Response
For the second time in my short life as a blogger, I’ve been meme-tagged by an evil blogging compatriot hoping to provoke me into playing a silly blog-tagging game, generating more content, and generally surrendering to mass hysteria. Okay. I’m in! But only because I’m a sucker for attention. And…
Will also present for food: Internet Ministry Conference
It’s official: I’m presenting at the 2008 Internet Ministry Conference hosted by GospelCom. Gospel Communications has teamed up with the Internet Evangelism Coalition and now the two conferences, GospelCon and the Internet Evangelism Conference, have been merged. The conference serves two dual purposes: one is to train GospelCom’s ministry partners…
Will Social Network for Food
As most of you who regularly visit know, back in November of 2006 I was laid-off from CTI. It wasn’t anything nefarious or antagonistic — CTI always has been and continues to be very good to me, still tossing occasional freelance work and article assignments my way. (Hopefully because of my…
Shameless Self-Promotion: Blogger’s Choice Awards
Okay, I’ll fess up. I am a shameless self-promoter. Yes, I blog for the writing and for you, my Gentle Readers, but it’s also nice to get feedback and see real-world data that makes the feedback … um … exciting. So, some time back I nominated my own site, yes…
Blog Stats: Get your info-jones on with weblog traffic metrics
Table of Contents Automattic FeedBurner Google Analytics QuantCast Others…? If you’re like me, you want to know whether anyone’s eating the meat you grind out from the butcher shop of ideas called your blog. Sure, there’s some measure of pride and ego involved: as your stats move ever upward your…
Should Ministry Leaders Blog?
Hat tip to Michael Davis for alerting me to this question posed over at Total Leadership: “Should Ministry Leaders Blog?” Here are my thoughts… A blogger with a “why” beats one with only a “how” Blogging can be a waste of a leader’s time if he doesn’t know what he’s…
New Feature: In-Line Editable Comments
Hello, Gentle Readers. If you’re part of the one-percenters who comment here from time-to-time you might be happy to know that I have enabled a feature to edit comments after you’ve posted them, and you don’t even have to leave the page! (Thanks to Ronald Huereca.) Come on, leave a…
Top 20 Bloggers (PneumaBloggers, that is)
For some time I’ve wanted to provide some sort of real-world ranking system so that those of you who want to know who the “big fish” are can find them, and so those of you who have successfully worked your blog into the stratosphere would get a little praise for…
Why Julie Blogs: On writers, writing, and blogging well
I love it when writers I enjoy get reflective and journal their process — when they slice open their artistic arteries and bleed out on the page, revealing what courses through their hearts. That’s why I enjoy [reading] writing books like Stephen King’s memoir on writing, as well as David Morrell’s,…
39 Tips to Improve Weblog Traffic and Visibility
Here are some tips I’ve learned from nearly two years of blogging and consistently raising my site’s traffic from month to month, often doubling it from previous months. Compared to some, I’m a rank newbie and have no business offering you any sort of pseudo-sage advice, but whatever I have to say below has already been said by others smarter than me. Most of it is hard-won insight that has worked for somebody somewhere, sometimes even me.
On Blogging: A Challenge to Pentecostals
I want to say a few words about the power of blogging on a personal level. And I want to challenge my fellow quiet Pentecostals and Charismatics to pick up the keyboard and begin writing. Words have ConsequencesA friend on an email message group recently asked me about the effectiveness…
More PneumaBloggers
Just a very quick note to say that I’ve updated the PneumaBlogs list in recent days to include some stellar new names, including:
Christoph Fischer ( My Cup of Coffee )
David Copeland ( Re…
Using Windows Live Writer (beta)
Okay, so I’m trying out the Windows Live Writer — because I’m a sucker for new tools and I’m always on the lookout for the better (free) blogging tool. Besides, Amy at GentleWhisper made me do it. … Installation The install went okay … the second time. The installer wants to…
BlogRodent turns one: top 10 posts, plus top ten lessons.
Yowie, it’s been a busy couple of months. Since I went on vacation in early June my life has been very full. I’ve had a lot of video editing to do, and I’ve been taking work home to do it on my laptop—since it seems so hard to get anything accomplished at the office. (Is it ironic when your boss agrees that the worst place to do work is at the office?)
Meanwhile, I’ve been wringing my hands over my blog. I’ve been too … absorbed in everything else to dredge up the energy to post anything substantive, but over the past couple weeks I’ve made sure to moderate the comments and track the stats. So, BlogRodent hasn’t really fallen off my radar. It’s just that I’ve fallen off the face of the earth. In fact, I’m waiting for video to finish rendering right now … so with a few minutes on my hands, I thought I’d post a retrospective.
I think milestones are important. I’d been waiting for the one-year anniversary of BlogRodent so I could celebrate it with an anniversary post. Naturally, because I am time-insensitive—my employers would say I’m time-comatose—so June 20 passed without a mention. What happened on this blog on that day one year ago? My first “Hello World” post, nervously titled, “This is easy,” and a throw-away mention of the Adult CE class I was teaching at the time, “Do Heaven and Hell exist?” Frankly, there’s nothing to recommend either post for your reading pleasure. But lot has happened since then and I hope I’ve made some improvement.
Let’s talk about what’s been good, bad, and what I’ve learned as a newbie Pentecostal blogger.
Eichenwald blasts bloggers. Is that a fact or is he reporting again?
You may remember how New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald discovered the seedy world of teenage webcam porn, and how his investigation became personal when he encouraged the subject he was interviewing—Justin Berry—to give up his sordid life, turn State’s evidence, and kick drugs. Eichenwald has since been in the hot seat…
The Oprah tsunami hits my blog
Looked at my traffic logs a couple days ago… Who died and left me all their traffic? It’s not like I blogged on Britney Spears or Anna Kournikova or anything lately. Did I? Oh … wait … It’s gotta be Berry. Since I blogged about Justin Berry (the former “camwhore,”…
Plugins used on Blogrodent
Updated: See, instead, a live list of plugins, here. For any who care, here are the plugins currently in use here on BlogRodent. I turned off BAStats for a while to improve performance, but then installed WP-Cache and performance improved so dramatically I’ve turned it back on for a test.…
Hard questions for Christian bloggers
Updated 01/09/2006: See my reference to Dan Edelen’s recent post, below. Last Tuesday, I was asleep at the wheel when Eric Reed over at Out of Ur invited Dr. Craig L. Blomberg to post a thoughtful article on blogging and the Evangelical blogosphere. I finally saw the post today, and…
Most popular blog posts in 2005
I thought I’d take a look back on the last six months, since I began blogging here, and see which of my posts received the most attention from you, my patient readers. The results are in, and I am dutifully sharing them, despite the fact that this post will only serve to draw more…
Goateed bloggers–or all my evil twins?
Is it axiomatic that if you are a postmodern, pentecostal, male blogger you must wear a goatee or a van dyke? Seems like most of the men blogging on my PneumaBlogs page sport a goat of one shape or another. Odd. Also, see this post.
Pneumablog has been posted.
Hi. Here’s my current list of active Pentecostal, Charismatic and Assembly of God bloggers. I hope you enjoy it. And feel free to add to it with your comments. PneumaBlogs: Select Pentecostal/Charismatic Bloggers Rich. [tags]assemblies-of-god, assembly-of-god, blogger, blogging, BlogRodent, charismatic, church-of-god, foursquare, god-blogger, god-blogging, godblog, godbloggers, godblogs, pentecostal, pneumablog,…
Unto … the uttermost parts of the blogosphere
(Updated with accurate URLs for Frank N. Johnson’s websites.) I am not sure if this is just a meme without substance, or if the idea has actual merit. But the cliche rant among tech- and media-savvy Christians is that the Church world is always slow to adopt new technology. The…