Posted on April 24, 2008 by Chris
Apologies but I have made the decision to pull the post on ‘Policing Innocence’ - CCPAS Question Its Conclusions as it seemed to me the comments were descending to a point where they were only producing heat rather than any light.
While this blog welcomes debate (and recognises the importance of it), it seems to me that it [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Chris
Sorry for the absence. I was away for two weeks of Spring Harvest in Minehead, one as a punter, and one helping on the Distinctive (11-14s) team. Following that it has all been slightly crazy at work, with my laptop giving up the ghost. It has now been fixed so back to blogging.
The next few [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2008 by Chris
Cartoon Dave points out that the BBC has issued a set of guidelines for its employees on blogging. They seem fairly sensible, and some might even say helpful, with the general message being link with your line manager. I think that could work fairly well, so long as the line manager has the time and [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008 by Chris
Maggi Dawn is running a great series: Blogging the Archbishops - she managed to interview the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and is blogging some of their answers bit by bit.
Check these links out:
Blogging the Archbishops 1
Blogging the Archbishops 2 - the Future of the Church of England
Blogging the Archbishops 3 - Church and State
Blogging Archbishops [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by Chris
Victoria Derbyshire (from Radio 5 Live) recently started blogging, and last week asked a guest blogger to write about his life. Georgie, who’s 18, is blogging partly out of response to a promise Victoria made on air during a discussion about anti-social behaviour when some listeners made the point that the media only ever seems to [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2008 by Chris
I have been thinking recently about ways in which to improve this blog: more original thoughts, less content, change the background, change the name and url to better describe it, have more structure, e.g. days with certain expectations and/or themes over a period of weeks.
What do you think? How could I make this better, [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2008 by Chris
Bible.org has launched a new blog, Jesus in Prime Time: Engaging the Public Square about Jesus. They describe it as being “made up of leading Christian professors, writers and thinkers who have come together to engage the media and culture about the person and work of Jesus Christ.” The contributors include Craig Blomberg, Darrell Bock, [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2008 by Chris
C. J. Mahaney, with the assistance of Tony Reinke, is starting a blog. Here are the closing words of his first post:
I think you can anticipate a disproportionate number of posts on one topic, “Christ and him crucified” (1Co 2:2), for that, by the grace of God, is what I am most passionate about. [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2008 by Chris
LifeHacker have linked on the way in which Google Reader now allow you to discover when a blog post was actually published as well as received, i.e. how long it took Google Reader to show you that post? If you hover over the time block on the upper right hand side to get a tool [...]
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Posted on December 31, 2007 by Chris
As I have thought about next year one of the things that has taken time this year that isn’t necessary is that amount of stuff that comes to me in terms of post, emails, blog updates, podcasts etc. While it is important to stay up-to-date I am certain that I don’t need all the information, [...]
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