The Zion Chronicle

Tag: blogging

  • Backfilling

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    When I came back to WordPress in February of 2007 the focus of the site (Recovering Technophile) was technology and social/political commentary. I imported my writing from the blogger blog I was leaving and those posts which fit that focus from my earlier blogs. After the technology portion withered and the politics portion blossomed I…

  • Two Years (By One Way of Reckoning)

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    Last year I recorded my first year back to blogging. I recorded the statistics at the time and set a goal to average one post per day. In the last year I have: 365 posts 1364 comments ~20,000 spam comments (the spam count got reset when I upgraded to WP 2.5 so the count listed…

  • Family Vacation

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    I’m trying to decide if my expectations are delusional, or simply higher than necessary. This week I am taking an extended family vacation for the first time since I got married. There have been a few gathering similar to this which we have been unable to attend, but mostly our extended family events are holiday…

  • Old Goals, New Goals

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    I have made a goal ever six months for the last couple of years to review every talk from general conference before the next general conference. I have to make the goal anew each conference because each time I fail – until now. Thanks to my introduction to ScriptureCast I reviewed the final talk from…

  • Open Up on Blogger

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    This is an open suggestion to Bloggers who use Blogger – specifically those who are restrictive on allowing comments. Once upon a time there were three options for who could comment (assuming that you allowed comments on the blog in the first place). The options were Anyone, Registered Users, and Members of the Blog. I…

  • Seeking Feedback

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    As I have been reorganizing my site and evaluating my purposes I have come to realize that one of the goals I have for this endeavor is to get feedback – to bounce my ideas off other people to see what they think and get some perspective on the topics I am thinking about.  For…

  • What is Blogging?

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    Start of Series In order to substantiate my claim of what benefits blogging provides for me, I think it is important to define what I mean by when I talk about blogging. I have already indicated that blogging is more than simply posting thoughts here. Part of blogging, for me, is reading other blogs and…

  • Benefits of Blogging

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    Start of Series When I started blogging, I noticed that there were a lot of people blogging about blogging, especially in the circle of educational bloggers. Very soon I began to dislike those types of postings. This leaves readers here to wonder – why am I doing the same thing now? In the past few…

  • Why Blog?

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    This is going to be short, and almost without substance, but my history of blogging comes from a background of education where the question has been asked, but never completely answered, what is the benefit of blogging? I can only answer that question in regard to my personal experience. Even with that limited scope it…

  • Blogging or Thinking

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    I made a little discovery yesterday about the pattern of when I post to my blog and when I don’t. It comes down to the “Time Matrix” discussed in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey. The time matrix suggests that all activities and concerns can be broken down into four quadrants. Quadrants…