Comments on: Mormons on the Internet

By: Seth R.

Seth R. — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:46:22 +0000

One tool I’ve found extremely handy is the Clipmarks plugin for Firefox. It allows me to easily “clip” webpage content that interests me and save it to a searchable collection.

Mskes it easy to keep track of content that would make good blog posts.

By: danithew

danithew — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:15:51 +0000

Thanks for the mention and link Susan. Just to help get the word out … anyone with a WordPress blog can use this plugin to create their own on-blog aggregator. For a few reasons I prefer using an aggregator than a blogroll:

1) To some degree, it’s self-maintaining. It posts links to actual posts - links to a blog’s posts won’t show up if a blogger stops posting or a blog goes defunct.

2) Internally, the aggregator actually tells you how long it’s been since a blog has posted. This makes it very easy to identify which rss feeds are declining in usage. Then, in turn, it’s a simple step to check a blog to see what has changed - whether the rss feed has been altered, the site has moved to a new site or if the blog is simply dying.

If anyone has questions, let me know. John Dehlin is using the same plugin for his aggregator. Again, anyone with a WordPress blog can add this feature to his/her blog.

Theoretically, the more WordPress blogs in the ‘Nacle that use this, the better placement the ‘Nacle as a whole will get in Google searches.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:14:58 +0000

I remember those mailing lists. I haven’t posted on any of them in years though.

Clark, I bet that is why your name sounds so familiar. Of those listed, I was on Scripture-L the most; although, JOSEPH was probably a close second.

I also remember when Laura was writing her book. I believe I have a site or two in there.

By: Jim Cobabe

Jim Cobabe — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:09:22 +0000

I’m reminded again of the joke about St. Peter warning newcomers to the kingdom of heaven to tiptoe past the one isolated group, because “they think they’re the only ones here”.

By: Susan M

Susan M — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:23:20 +0000

Oh yeah, I meant to mention sustain’d.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:17:05 +0000

Sustain’d would be a fantastic tool for showcasing the best of the latest posts/lds content if more people would support it. With so many blogs refusing to add the “sustain this” icon to their site… well… it just hasn’t been able to gain the momentum it needs…unfortunate.

By: cchrissyy

cchrissyy — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:03:16 +0000

oh wow, I need Commentful! Google Reader lets me see new posts so easily, but I’m still using bookmarks to read new comments.

By: clark

clark — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:13:46 +0000

LDS-phil is alive and well. Eyring-L has sort of slowed to a trickle the past year or two. LDS-Hist is largely dead and has been pretty much since I stopped running it. I don’t know about Scripture-L. I was on it in the 90’s but haven’t heard much about it since that bok came out.

AML is a very active mailing list and is well worth joining. FAIR has a mailing list I used to be on but recently left as I couldn’t keep up with the volume.

But by and large most of the mailing lists are dead - blogs have overtaken them. Although a lot of the old timers, I note, never made the transition to blogs.

By: HP

HP — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:02:11 +0000

I used to read Mormon email lists a lot. I learned about them through Redelf’s site. Some wierd stuff went down.

Thanks for Commentful, Susan. That is so cool I could spit!