READER’S CHOICE: What Do YOU Want to Read About? VOTE NOW!

OK, your chance to weigh in:  Please take a minute to vote!  What do YOU most want to read about on a Catholic blog? 

Here are the categories:

✓ Faith matters:  liturgy, sacraments, prayer, explanations of doctrine

✓ Political matters:  Congressional actions, political candidates, the military,

✓ Cultural matters:  film, television, literature and the arts

✓ Family matters:  marriage, childrearing, education, cooking

✓ Humor:  the everyday humor in family life

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When the Catholic Blog Awards were announced earlier this year, I found myself straining to see who, from among the bloggers I follow regularly, would emerge near the top of the “Must Read” lists. 

I could learn from the highest-ranked writers, I was sure, and my prose would take on a new fervor or an as-yet-unseen panache. 

But what I found, in perusing the top titles, was that I had no inclination to become like them.  I’m not a former atheist like Jennifer Fulwiler, or an established author like Amy Welborn, or a media specialist and mother of young children like Lisa Hendey.  I’ll never match the life-long media experience of Deacon Greg Kandra, or the ecclesial experience of Fr. Zuhlsdorf. 

No, I am who I am.  Some people will read my blog, others won’t bother.  And that’s OK.

What would happen, I pondered, if Arthur Conan Doyle were to write the sequel to Anne of Green Gables?  Or, in the Catholic world, if Donna Marie Cooper O’Boyle were to pick up her pen and ghost write Glenn Beck’s next political best-seller?   

 But drawing wisdom from Mother Teresa’s famed quote about many kinds of children and many kinds of flowers, I note that there are many kinds of bloggers.  The most successful bloggers write about things large and small, about things sacred and mundane, the things about which they’re most passionate.

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Author/editor Wally Metts, chair of communication and media at Spring Arbor University and author of The Daysman blog, offers a humorous look at the stuff bloggers like:  ordinary stuff like comments and pageviews.  He writes about how he knows just who is reading, and how they found their way there:

When someone starts a blog, their family and friends may be the only people who read their blog, unless they or their website are already famous. But over time other people find their blog, perhaps by searching for a certain subject or phrase on Google or some other search engine. Searchers have found my blog looking for “jamba juice cheeseburger chili”, “wedding homilies ephesians 5”, and “argentina casa rosa.”

Read Wally’s essay in full here.   

NOW GO!   Click on your favorite topics in the poll above!  I’ll be chatting about the results in the near future.