I assumed, largely because much the same people comment on my blog (here) and my short biblical studies podcasts, that the audience for both sites was much the same. The 5 minute audio slots are less popular, with only 5-600 visitors a day, while this blog (even in this marking season when posts are few [...]
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Jonathan was the host of this month’s Biblical Studies Carnival, he’s calling it Oktoberfest, which in view of the obsession of the SBL and biblical studies bloggers with sausages this month seems, as they say, not inappropriate. I just wonder why there was no beer :( Do take a look, in all the fun of [...]
Bloglines is near it’s expiry date. But it has spolit me for other RSS readers. Bloglines allowed me to neatly organise my subscriptions and read the new posts (and only the new posts) in whichever group I wanted, when I wanted. It was neat, easy, worked and the screen was unbcluttered. Several friends claim Google [...]
In our intro class, students write a summary of the message a biblical text had for its intended audience. This should be one or two sentences and less than 50 words. Writing a summary is like packing for a journey, some people want to take everything! Then it is an exercise in writing tight. Most [...]
In a comment to my previous post Jim West asked: thanks tim. do you know by chance who captured the #1 spot [in the biblioblog rankings for August]? 1- a badger 2- a viper 3- the antichrist 4- the best of the best This question deserves serious consideration, so I am promoting it to a [...]
Congratulations to my colleague Jonathan Robinson whose fine blog Xenos has just shot into the BiblioBlog Rankings making his first appearance an instant 33rd whiuch does not sound like much, till you realise that he narrowly follows Robert CargillOfficial Blog and is actually ahead of Mark Goodacre’s classic and thoughtful NT Blog! Incidentally my headline [...]
The Center for History and New Media, George Mason University the people who brought us Zotero, the neat simple free “just does what it should” bibliography manager have held a One Week | One Tool project funded by the (US) National Endowment for the Humanities. The tool they produced (only 0.3 alpha as yet to [...]
The biblioblog top 50 is out for June. Of course, like everyone else, I never “usually” read them ;) However this month is special for me, with I think two firsts for the list. Though probably someone with a good memory will demonstrate one or both false, until they do I claim: To be the [...]
Yahoo have produced a Styleguide for the web. In the absence of any different requirements from your webmaster, and for most blogs we are our own webmasters, I do not know of another succinct styleguide that aims to cover issues of publishing on the web. There is even a page of very sensible advice about [...]
My daughter (in Glasgow as an exchange student) has been posting recently on Facebook about procrastination (it’s nearly the exam season there, and revision does not beckon like she thinks it should. Shopping, cooking, buying tickets… her list of procrastinatory activities are different from mine. But today I am procrastinating too! I’m supposed to be [...]
