Just a quick note to highlight a thoughtful post at PhilThreeten about the noise of the blogsphere. This is something all of us who like to blog need to constantly consider: are we just making noise, or is our blogging truly part of the work of the Kingdom? I particularly appreciate PhilThreeten’s remarks about spending time in the comments section of popular, fiesty faith blogs. I love arguing with people in those comments sections, but often for reasons that have little to do with Kindom values, and often in ways that take far too much time away from other important things. Blogging is a wonderful way of journaling, expressing, and discussing, but like everything else we need to keep it in perspective.
And, if you get discouraged by all the noise in the blogsphere, try sitting on an important church committee. At least we know in the blogsphere that we’re a self-selecting group of theology and policy wonks with some strong opinions and very different backgrounds.
3 replies on “Too Much Blog Noise?”
Check your link. It took me to haloscan trackback page instead of the post.
“I love arguing with people in those comments sections”
I appreciate all of the commenting you do on TDT. You have left some terrific comments on TDT about philosophy of science (Kuhn and Popper) / economic theory / political theory etc. I don’t consider any of that noise. I appreciate learning from you.
Thanks. Fixed the link too.
David – was going to let you know about the link but Jeff beat me to it 🙂
I guess I’m in a funk mood today and so the post came across somewhat pessimistic. Jeff is right that there is also much good in the disucssions that go on in the blogs…
Thanks for the link!!