Flickr has recently added a couple of new things to their options which I really like. The first is the optional layout from small to medium photos (see my Flickr page for the medium layout). Also, Flickr has a new tool called collections. To read more about it, go here.
On another note, let me encourage you to check out Said At Southern Seminary. It is a blog dedicated to providing the feeds of SBTS bloggers as well as podcasts and other audio. This blog is a great replacement for the now defunct SBTSblogs which began having problems about two months ago. I am adding Said At Southern Seminary to my blogroll and encourage you to do the same.
Finally, David Wayne (JollyBlogger) recently shared the top 11 reasons why people unsubscribe from blogs (original article found here). Here they are:
- Too many posts (the post levels are too overwhelming) – 37
- Infrequent Posting (or the blog is effectively dead) – 29
- Partial Excerpts Feeds – 25
- Blog Changes Focus (too much off topic posting) – 23
- Too many posts that I see elsewhere (Redundant, Repeated or Recycled News) – 19
- Uninteresting Content – 16
- Irrelevant Content – 13
- The Blogger’s Ego – Too much self promotion – 11
- Low Quality Content – 11
- Too many posts that are too long – 10
- Negative blogging – 7
Thanks. I’m still working out how it will work. Can you make me a graphic header? I know you’ve got some great SBTS photos.
Tony, are you responsible for the Said @ Southern Seminary blog? Yeah, I would be happy to put some headers together. Let me know the size and/or resolution requirements, and I will see what I can come up with.
I like the new SBTS blog.
I’m still trying to figure out the collection feature and how I will utilize it. It seems like a good idea.
Pretty interesting insights into unsubscribing to a blog. My version of subscription is to just add to my blogroll and check it out periodically when I want to. Then I don’t feel obligated to read.
I am a man of much mischief. I was just fooling around with some feeds and out jumped this thing. It is easier for me to keep up with everyone. I have live bookmarks all over Firefox but wanted something more aesthetic. I’ll let you know on the specs.
Very cool. I think it could prove to be a valuable and time-saving stop for many people. I enjoyed going to SBTSblogs when it was working, and this blog you have put together does that and offers much more. I hope it catches on . . .
Tony and Timmy,
I like the new blog. It looks great. Thanks for adding my feed, Tony!
Hey guys,
That was me above. I’ve been experimenting with some sites on WordPress and it logged me that way.
Steve
I’ve gotten good feedback for something that happened on accident Friday night.
Timmy,
I linked Pipers 1999 sermons from Southern and I basically challenged you to get an interview with him. Maybe you could get an audience with a group of bloggers like you did for T4G. Or just do it for P&P. Either way I would love to read it.
You call it an accident?! You better not have been drinking anything, you know . . .
Tony,
I just commented over at SBTSbloggers. Getting an interview with Piper is a tall order (who do you think I am – Mark Dever?!), especially given the latency of the idea. It would be a lot fun, though. To be the guy who has (I think) the largest collection of John Piper photos on the Internet, it is tragic that I have never actually met Piper.
A challenge huh? What in the world would I ask him? Maybe I could solicit questions from the good folks in the blogosphere. I think my first question would be something like, “Do you believe every self-respecting Christian hedonist should be a seven-point Calvinist?” To follow up, I might ask, “Are you really that bad?”
Lame, I know. But it’s a start . . .
Timmy,
You know you have more readers at P&P than the Courier Journal. Work your Band of Bloggers magic with Dr. Mohler. In 1999 he went around all the classrooms.