I’m now blogging at Hyperbole for 1000, Alex. Come visit!
Dec 08 2009
Where You Heading, Son?
For the time being I will be posting at Pursuing Holiness (where Laura has kindly invited me to share occasionally) and once in awhile at Grumpy Old Men–The Prequel (where the Minnesnowtans are apparently screaming for real content).
Nov 27 2009
Things I’ve Learned in 5 Years of Blogging
A week short of five years ago, I launched a blog called King’s Kid at Blogspot.com. It was a great experience, but I found – and still find – that Blogger/Blogspot is too limited in its capabilities. I moved on to a hosted site at Wordpress with carefulthought.wordpress.com. That was a great experience as well; in fact, I liked it so much that I started this blog on my own servers and domain, but still using the WordPress framework. It’s time to move on to bigger and better, or at least other, things. I’ve received a couple offers to post on other sites, and I may take up those offers, but this is it for this venue.
Here’s what I’ve learned in five years, in no particular order:
- God is faithful, even when we fail Him
- Blogging is a great way to vent, but venting is no substitute for real content
- Your blog is unique, just like other the other 200 million blogs out there, so give people a reason to visit you
- Stay faithful. If you have a political blog, focus on that, if it’s a faith blog, focus on that. Readers seem to prefer blogs with a single topic or theme
- Don’t dwell on stats, but if your stat counter is stuck on zero, that’s a bad sign
- Post regularly
- Appreciate your readers
- Don’t be afraid to step on toes, but do with grace
- Trolls are a fact of blogging life. Deal with it.
- There’s a huge amount of information available on the internet. Some of it is even accurate.
- Give full credit for your content. If it ain’t yours, attribute it.
Thanks for reading!
Steve
Nov 26 2009
Anybody Out There? Anyone?
[[Sound of crickets chirping.]] Just Checking… Readership has dwindled quite a bit of late, so I think it’s time to put a bow on Careful Thought and put it on the shelf. It’s been a slice, folks. Be blessed.
Nov 23 2009
Careful Thought?
My new friend Joyce is taking me to task on my use of the Obama Joker image. The point – is it a good Christian witness to portray the president, or anyone, in a negative light. She has a valid point and I struggle with this. Is it a derogatory image or is it simply drawing attention to our duly elected president’s political agenda? What is our role as believers in confronting wrongs? Jesus himself called the Pharisees hypocrites and whitewashed tombs.
She quotes Gary Thomas: “Just because someone I’m opposing is wrong doesn’t make me right.” Not sure I agree fully. We are called to be meek, which I understand as ’strength under restraint’, and not as a synonym for weak or inoffensive.
Am I off base here?
Sep 02 2009
At Last, Adult Supervision or Something
Greg has graciously returned from an extended hiatus, so you’ll be seeing an occasional post from someone other than yours truly. There may be others as well, who knows?
Jul 30 2009
Camping and SOA, what fun…
Tomorrow we’re off the the Crags on the back side of Pikes Peak with the boys and the Scout troop. I get back Sunday noonish and jump on a plane to DC for SOA training. What’s that mean to you? Not much, probably. The camping will be a lot more fun than the SOA training, but at least I will finally be a Certified SOA Professional. Woo hoo.
Posting has been way light for awhile. Between the job and some web hosting issues I haven’t time or access to blog for a bit. But all is well. Many thanks to Levi at CricketSoda for getting things rolling again!
Jun 09 2009
Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
The first athletic cup to protect ‘the boys’ was used in professional hockey in 1874, but the first helmet wasn’t used until 1974.
Why did it take 100 years to realize that the brain is also important?
Jan 30 2009
French Workers Strike Over Bushes Shoes…or Something
There’s a Fox News story about a monument to the Iraqi show-thrower, but the thing that caught my eye was the caption. Either Fox goofed or the shoe has apparently migrated to Nice, southern France – the home of some very small striking workers.
Dec 07 2008
I’ll Be Back…
Sorry for the light posting. I have a new job and there are lots of government entitlement programs that my taxes have to pay for, so I’m trying to get caught up. Actually, the new job has me pretty busy and I just haven’t much time, but I should be back online shortly.
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