No, I was not hit by a car (though I did almost hit a deer). And no, I haven’t dropped off the face of the planet, though that trip is at the tail end of the planning stages, and I expect to go through with it in the next few months. I hear it’s quite a blast, though getting back on the face of the planet is kinda troublesome. Let’s just say that, with a new job position, new hours for that position, and new forms of recreation at a friend’s house, I haven’t really been home all that much to do a lot of blogging. And let’s face it - the age of the personal blog (excluding those blogs that are specifically focused on a certain topic or area of expertise) has just about seen it’s demise, courtesy of “new” (not really new, but perhaps mostly mature) outlets like Twitter and Facebook, to name a few. For self-published news digests, how-tos, and other related miscellany, blogs remain the sine quo non of their fields. But for personal communication, social networking sites have taken over as the new standard in forcing your up-to-the-second status on people. Hey, at least with blogs people could choose whether or not to view what you were having for dinner.
All that to say, things have been quiet around here, with the exception of that HCSB thread that keeps getting traffic on a consistent basis. To all who have commented - you should be receiving yours shortly. My source apologizes for the delay.
And what back-from-the-grave update would be complete without a notification that more bloggers have been added to the list? Check this out:
- Title: GraceFlow
- URL: http://www.graceflow.org
- Author: J. D. Coleman
- Title: The Mercied
- URL: http://themercied.blogspot.com/
- Author: Rebecca Phillips
- Title: The Confessing Historian
- URL: http://timtaylor.edublogs.org/
- Author: Tim Taylor
- Title: One Little Hour
- URL: http://paulmatzko.edublogs.org
- Author: Paul Matzko
- Title: Cafe Biblia
- URL: http://www.CafeBiblia.com
- Author: Craig Johnson














Comment posted by filosofo (member) on April 18th, 2008 at 8:44 pm.
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Glad to see you’re back!
I hope you’re wrong. Facebook is all about building value for someone else: they control all the content–their user agreement grants them all rights to your photos, for example–and make it impossible to export your data or export your friends’ contact info, and they decide what ads to stick in your feed or intrusive promotions–like Beacon–to allow.
Instead, I’m excited about projects like DiSo, which will help keep social networking open and tied into things of value to us as individuals, such as our blogs.
Comment posted by John Mount (guest) on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm.
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With all the references to the word “Mount”, I thought I would ask about you? I am also a BJU grad ‘88 SAS, Aircraft Maintenance. I live in Tucson now.
There are not many who have the last name of Mount who are alum of BJU. Are you a Mount and what is your story?
Thank you,
John Mount