If and when you do write more about blogging, I’d like to hear you expand on trajectory.

Being that we are Christians, and we address Christian issues in a blog, how important is it to discern God’s will for your blog? Is this something you can just do on your own, or do you need to have clear direction from God as to whether to blog or not, and then what to blog about? And how would you discern that?

Those are issues I and a few others on my blog have been grappling with. We have some clarity, but not to the degree I personally would prefer.

Absolutely I believe there is a maturity, in areas including style, content, and trajectory. In style, you learn about programming, blogging aesthetics/functionality, and the character of your community and their comments.
In content, what you choose and do not choose to write about. Your content will also filter the comments.
In trajectory, where you are headed or hope to accomplish.

In all these and perhaps more I can say that blogs mature and change, hopefully for the better. Now, there are those who have an axe to grind and will keep on doing the same thing over and over, never learning and never growing. I personally do not pay much attention to them.

The fact that you brought that up leads me to believe I should write about blogging in general some more. I think it would be helpful, for me, and I hope for the greater blogging community.

Do you think it’s possible for bloggers to “mature” and grow, to get better and more Christ-like in their blogging, their articles, and how they relate to commenters and critics? I’m referring mainly to myself, and my efforts in the blog world.
You said a lot of wise things here, too, some of which I’ve adopted and all of which I hope I am mindful of going forward. Thanks for your work on your blog and for this and other articles you’ve written, and thanks for posting this among your top 30 posts of 2007 – otherwise I wouldn’t have remembered to read thru this post again.

I make my blog headers available to anyone who wants to use them. I have somewhere around 75 right now. The dimensions are 740×180. Feel free to use them if you like.

Microsoft paint? Really?

Yea, but what happens when you don’t have mad photography skills and are only able to finagle your way through Microsoft “paint” ?

Thanks for the kind props. Great post.

NAF

I did it once off David “JollyBlogger” Wayne’s site and coined the word “piggy-tracking” to define the action.

And I guess I just did it again.

Bad blogger. (slaps my own hand)

SDG,
Carla