Peter had his year 2 blogging anniversary (congrats!) and mentioned his top five posts.
My top post is an employment post – The one on NES Staffing and it beats out the next post on new wine in old wineskins by 1000s and 1000s (and 1000s) of hits. (of all the things I’ve written about . . .)
So share! What is your number 1 post?
Well, I’m only a quarter slow in getting a blog for 5th grade math started. The thing I really hate about getting a set of powerpoints going for the lessons is that I ALWAYS find mistakes in them that have to be fixed!
I got home and sat down at the computer with a snack to go through Google Reader for the first time since about 5 a.m.
One of the early blogs I hit had 17 posts! Remember that’s just since 5 a.m. I may hit 17 posts some weeks 
But when I have hundreds of feeds pop up, I always go to my favorites first to see what they have going on. I’m frequently amazed at the depth of comments and the conversations that happen after the post. TC and Nick both frequently get great comments that turn into really good conversations. Peter has one today. Thirty-nine comments when I hit it. It’s on heaven and when Christians will arrive at the pearly gates. Very good discussion!
I missed a few months, but this one came out on the weekend
Straight from The Top 50 Bilbiobloggers (all the top 50 were in bold, so I italicized the ones I’ve been reading on a regular basis. Check them out!) congrats to everyone on the list. AND please go view the whole list. Lots of really good blogs listed besides these sitting on top.
So here are the Top 50 Biblioblogs, complete with runners-up, for October 2009:
| Rank | Prev. | + / - | Blogger | Blog Name | Alexa Ranking |
| 1 | 1 | - | Jim West | Jim West | 70,585 |
| 2 | 2 | - | Joel L. Watts | Church of Jesus Christ, The | 94,324 |
| 3 | 3 | - | Matt Dabbs | Kingdom Living | 226,058 |
| 4 | 36 | 32 | Jeremy Thompson | Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog | 239,040 |
| 5 | 5 | - | Mark Goodacre | NT Blog | 266,552 |
| 6 | 20 | 14 | Ferrell Jenkins | Ferrell’s Travel Blog | 269,277 |
| 7 | 15 | 8 | John Hobbins | Ancient Hebrew Poetry | 279,443 |
| 8 | 16 | 8 | Jim Linville | Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room | 280,504 |
| 9 | 4 | -5 | Jeff Oien | Scripture Zealot | 285,934 |
| 10 | 28 | 18 | Stephen Smuts | Biblical Paths | 291,969 |
| 11 | 11 | - | Henry Neufeld | Participatory Bible Study Blog | 294,692 |
| 12 | 13 | 1 | Peter M. Lopez | Beauty of the Bible | 310,529 |
| 13 | 8 | -5 | James McGrath | Exploring Our Matrix | 348,998 |
| 14 | 6 | -8 | Daniel O. McClellan | Maklelan | 349,600 |
| 15 | 12 | -3 | Scott Bailey | Scotteriology | 367,833 |
| 16 | 19 | 3 | Dave Black | Dave Black Online | 387,734 |
| 17 | 9 | -8 | Josh Mann | For the Sake of Truth | 412,539 |
| 18 | 10 | -8 | Nick Norelli | Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth |
433,541 |
| 19 | 24 | 5 | Daniel and Tonya | Hebrew and Greek Reader | 472,411 |
| 20 | 25 | 5 | T.C. Robinson | New Leaven | 496,840 |
| 21 | 26 | 5 | Doug Chaplin | Clay Boy | 506,610 |
| 22 | 14 | -8 | Brandon Wason | Sitz im Leben | 513,973 |
| 23 | 32 | 9 | Michael S. Heiser | Naked Bible, The, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Every Thought Captive |
622,603 |
| 24 | 70 | 46 | Michael Barber, Brant Pitre & John Bergsma | Sacred Page, The | 684,119 |
| 25 | 37 | 12 | Chris Heard | Higgaion | 684,649 |
| 26 | 7 | -19 | Airton José da Silva | Observatório Bíblico | 695,719 |
| 27 | 35 | 8 | Claude Mariottini | Claude Mariottini | 716,017 |
| 28 | 155 | 127 | Karyn Traphagen | Boulders 2 Bits | 720,190 |
| 29 | 38 | 9 | Jim Getz | Ketuvim | 735,568 |
| 30 | 98 | 68 | Michael W. Halcomb | Pisteuomen | 739,059 |
| 31 | 33 | 2 | Neil Godfrey | Vridar | 796,940 |
| 32 | 17 | -15 | Mike Whitenton | Ecce Homo | 922,354 |
| 33 | 42 | 9 | Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts | ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion | 943,832 |
| 34 | 53 | 19 | Jason | Eis Doxan | 944,397 |
| 35 | 54 | 19 | Tommy Wasserman, et al | Evangelical Textual Criticism | 966,031 |
| 36 | 23 | -13 | Rachel Marszalek | Re-vis.e Re-form | 996,397 |
| 37 | 22 | -15 | Pat McCullough | Kata ta biblia | 997,159 |
| 38 | 45 | 7 | Tyler F. Williams | Codex | 1,005,148 |
| 39 | 46 | 7 | John Anderson | Hesed we ‘emet | 1,015,842 |
| 40 | 18 | -22 | Robert Cargill | Official Blog of Robert R. Cargill, The | 1,017,692 |
| 41 | 66 | 25 | Loren Rosson | Busybody, The | 1,037,647 |
| 42 | - | - | Rick Mansfield | This Lamp | 1,042,115 |
| 43 | 73 | 30 | Chris Tilling | Chrisendom | 1,047,889 |
| 44 | 52 | 8 | David Ker, et al | Better Bibles Blog | 1,054,480 |
| 45 | 50 | 5 | Gavin Rumney | Otagosh | 1,070,415 |
| 46 | 56 | 10 | Jimmy Doyle | jkdoyle.com | 1,071,249 |
| 47 | 44 | -3 | Andy Naselli | Thoughts on Exegetical, Biblical, Historical, Systematic, and Practical Theology | 1,077,125 |
| 48 | 40 | -8 | Mandy and Calvin Park | Floppy Hat, The | 1,091,440 |
| 49 | 171 | 122 | Thomas Verenna | Musings of Thomas Verenna, The | 1,109,095 |
| 50 | 91 | 41 | Kevin Sam | New Epistles | 1,154,078 |
I quoted Janice Harayda in my last paper on librarians blogging, so I thought I should look up her blog!
Wide range of books reviewed. Take a look.
Two bloggers that I read daily (Jason and Nick) use the Ocean Mist theme. It is aesthetically pleasing, BUT the log off button has premier placement over the submit comment button IMHO and I am forever logging myself out on their blogs.
Royal pain in the patooty! But please read their blogs anyway because they are wonderful! Just watch it when you comment 
TC (bless his heart) was thinking about moving his blog to the hinterlands.
Now I came from there and I was disappointed here on WordPress that I couldn’t insert somethings in my posts like slideshare or photobucket slide shows because they are javascript based. 
Really big disappointment there. BUT
One of the things I really, really like is the blog surfer. I can subscribe to other blogs that are on WP and set the length of days for them to go back. I’ve got mine set at 7.
Why 7? you ask. All those blogs are also set on google reader too. There I get to read them once and then they disappear. Now if I can remember who wrote a particular post, I can go back and find it, but if I can’t, I’m up a creek. All the subscriptions keep coming up on blog surfer. They don’t archive when I read them. They stay put. I can see the pictures and the videos that sometimes don’t show up on a reader. The posts are full texts. AND I get to see your little picture with them
So, what is a feature you really like about WordPress?
Well, Peter kept showing how he got more hits for the word Satan. Maybe I was too clever in working it into a post
My number one search on Jack of All Trades is still on NES Staffing. Go figure.
From Polycarp. The emphasized ones are the ones I would have read anyway. It will be interesting to see what they are all saying.
Please make sure to visit these bloggers:
Holy Bible: Mosaic Blog Tour Schedule
September
22 – http://thechurchofjesuschrist.us
23 – http://www.deepbiblestudy.net/
25 – http://www.prsteps.blogspot.com
28 – http://www.chosenforgrace.com
29 – http://fccmaryville.com/FCC_Library.html
30 – http://jaredtotten.blogspot.com
October
1 – http://www.lawrencewilson.com/
2 – http://takingthoughtscaptive.wordpress.com
5 – http://www.katagraphais.com
6 – http://paradoxum.squarespace.com
7 – http://cntyourblessins.wordpress.com
9 – http://rdtwot.wordpress.com
13 – http://rickstilwell.wordpress.com
14 – http://www.internetmonk.com/
15 – http://www.mybookaddictionandmore.wordpress.com
16 – http://timothyarcher.com/kitchen
19 – http://kennedyandzach.blogspot.com/
20 – http://cherryblossommj.blogspot.com
21 – http://bookfoolery.blogspot.com/
23 – http://beautyofthebible.com
26 – http://writingcanvas.wordpress.com
27 – http://www.theiemommy.com
28 – http://jeannesgifts.blogspot.com
29 – http://csahm.com
30 – http://englewoodreview.org/
November
2 – http://eisdoxan.wordpress.com
4 – http://heidirafferty.blogspot.com/
5 – http://joshkidney.blogspot.com
6- http://jimkane.wordpress.com
9 – http://mochawithlinda.blogspot.com
10 – www.FaithBarista.com
11 – http://bradboydston.blogspot.com/
12 – http://davidladuke.wordpress.com/
13 – http://praxishabitus.blogspot.com
16 – http://blogmywaynow.blogspot.com/
17 – http://www.innerstrife.com
18 – http://haackreviewsbooks.blogspot.com
19 – http://www.vincetornero.com/
20 – http://www.beyondsilverandgold.blogspot.com
23 – http://myattkids.blogspot.com
24 – http://www.lovingheartdesigns.com/
25 – http://lullabeat.blogspot.com
26 – THANKSGIVING
Pray tell, what is going on here?
the end #1 I went to bed shaking my head over that one.
the end #2 AND woke up to this one!
Any one else got some major announcement this weekend?
David Ker posted this over at Lingamish. I’d link it but the post has been pulled. I thought it was funny, but . . . Of course, I’d been at the WFU football game (we left at half-time this week) and had been watching them get trounced again, so it’s possible that my funny bone was just aching to laugh.
Anyway, David linked to a Gender Analyzer which I went and visited putting in my blog address.
mmmmmmm They apparently are wrong 32% of the time. Neutrality could be a good thing.
Edited to add David’s post remixed.
This past couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that I’ve been making more spelling errors. Mainly they have been homonyms. NewKnew has come up more than once. I’ve found some before hitting the Publish Button but have still missed some.
I’ve also written some horribly constructed sentences. They weren’t bad the first write. It was sometime during a rewrite – trying to make it better or fuller or clearer and I left part of the old sentence in place.
Thank goodness posts can be edited way after publication.
Having pretty equal right/left brain functions is a hardship in times when I’m as busy as I am now. I want to do things right but I really want to do them fast. Both are compromised. It is nearly impossible to be a fast perfectionist. But yet, I try.
I’ve also been thinking about reading. Reading time for anything other than Library Science has gone to the dogs. I keep reading (skimming) book reviews and what’s come in the mail posts. I like library science, but it’s not exciting stuff at this point.
A few days ago, I mentioned that Ed Stetzer had posted the top 100 church blogs. I didn’t say that he mentioned it because he was on the list, but he is. I did say that I thought the title of the list was misleading because the blogs are not specifically church related.
I went back today to the blog today to read comments and I reread the post itself and guess what came up? Women bloggers. Amazing. AND then not only is blogging a man’s world, but it’s a WHITE man’s world. Even more amazing. These comments aren’t as volitile (or even as insightful) as those we’ve seen around Biblioblogs, but still . . .
Third, blogging is a man’s world. There are very few women on the list (unless they are contributors like in Out of Ur and GetReligion). I wonder why. Even in my own limited experience, I have noticed that those who leave comments on my blog are mostly men and those who comment on Facebook are much more likely to be women.
From the comments:
Maybe the comments on this post prove your point, Ed. It looks like me and Tiffany are representing the women.
I’m an editor and writer for a major Christian media company. I actually have found most of our writers (for one of our newly launched sites) through blogs and most of the writers happened to be men.
Maybe the comments on this post prove your point, Ed. It looks like me and Tiffany are representing the women.
I’m an editor and writer for a major Christian media company. I actually have found most of our writers (for one of our newly launched sites) through blogs and most of the writers happened to be men.
I started blogging seriously as one of my New Year’s resolutions. My blog is exported to facebook and I get more comments and messages from my posts on there than I do my actual blog but I would say I’ve had both men and women comment.
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It’s not only a white mans world, it’s a white Anglo-American world. I seem to be the only Aussie on the list and from my initial screening it seems the rest of the world is likewise poorly represented. How world wide is the Christian world wide web?
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I’d love to know if there are other women bloggers writing about their faith in that way?
I like blogging better than facebook btw.
Several people have mentioned new additions to their blog rolls lately. I probably could tell you who was new or not to mine if I put some thought to it, but the fact is that I add people and sometimes take them off – usually when they quit posting (except for Nathan ). There are so many, many wonderful bloggers. Sometimes I fill it up with people I read only occasionally because they have such value, and then I prune it down. Why? Because I think my blogroll is worthless if it has all the biblioblogs and related blogs that I haven’t really bought into enough to ready pretty regularly. All those wonderful blogs are noted so many places by people who do read them word for word.
I’ve said all this to get to: Please scan my blog roll. If there is someone on mine that is not on yours, would you give them a click to see what they have to say!
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