Bene Diction Gives the Good Word
While Bene Diction is on vacation, I’m supposed to be helping out by posting at Bene Dicition Blogs On (BDBO). Instead, I’m posting about BD here.
Back in March when I observed my fifth anniversary of blogging, I promised to write about some of my blogging influences. I posted a couple and then the lovely summer weather set in and I spent more time outdoors than posting. Autumn is truly and properly here and it’s time to get back to the bloggers.
BDBO came on line three or four months after I did. I’m not sure where I first came across BDBO, but I suspect it was Martin Roth’s semi-definitive list of Christian blogs. While BDBO has had a few server hiccups, he has managed to preserve most of his archives; unlike yours truly. A search of those archives for “Ian’s Messy Desk” returns eight pages of posts; one of my better blogosphere linkers.
I’d like to tell you more about the real BDBO, but he’s an anonymous blogger. BD is a Canadian blogger. If you read his short bio at Spero News, you will see he’s a journalist. Even the gender is a mystery. The writing at BDBO seems masculine to me, so I use the appropriate pronouns. Periodically, someone will take exception to my judgement and call BD she.
I have commented to BD that, if it weren’t for reading his blog, I would be out of touch with the state of current affairs, particularly in Canada. BDBO devotes a good portion of posts to observations on current affairs.
One of the things I like about BD’s posting is the personal focus that comes to the story. When BD makes an observation about an event in the news, it’s not just the regional or national or international implication of the event, but how it affects the people involved. To BD, current events are more than social studies or cultural science, they are about people.
I’ve been influenced by one of BD’s blog reading habits. Some time ago, he shared that, while blog hopping, he would spend time praying for the blogger behind the blog. What a great idea. Here is a forum where one can catch a glimpse of the person behind the page and turn that to a basis for prayer. While I’ve never exhibited BD’s consistency, I have used posts to trigger prayer for that blogger.
I’m glad to be a part of the Bene Diction blog roll, to benefit from his contributions to the blogosphere. If you haven’t check out Bene Dicition Blogs On, do so now.
BD, I hope you’re having a good break right now and, as you always say, “blog on”.
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Bless your heart Ian! Thank you for your kind words. I can’t take any credit for the preservation of the archives, that goes to cre8d-design, who when my blog was taken painstakingly went through Google and restored archives without a word of complaint. Through every server move Rachel has the heavy lifting done in the hours I sleep and I wake up to a blog in order.:^)
If it wasn’t for such quality tech help, I’d be stomping around sputtering instead of enjoying all the great blogs out there, including yours. Your quotes are awesome, your steady posting is a great example to the rest of us who enjoy this medium, and I’ve come back to your tech finds on more than one occasion. Blog on!