{"id":1395,"date":"2011-02-27T23:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathyschiffer.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2016-09-08T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T00:52:18","slug":"readers-choice-what-do-you-want-to-read-about-vote-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/2011\/02\/readers-choice-what-do-you-want-to-read-about-vote-now\/","title":{"rendered":"READER\u2019S CHOICE: What Do YOU Want to Read About? VOTE NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"OK, your chance to weigh in:\u00a0 <\/strong>Please take a minute to vote!\u00a0 What do YOU most want to read about on a Catholic blog?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here are the categories:<\/p>\n

\u2713 Faith matters<\/strong>:\u00a0 liturgy, sacraments, prayer, explanations of doctrine<\/p>\n

\u2713 Political matters<\/strong>:\u00a0 Congressional actions, political candidates, the military,<\/p>\n

\u2713 Cultural matters<\/strong>:\u00a0 film, television, literature and the arts<\/p>\n

\u2713 Family matters<\/strong>:\u00a0 marriage, childrearing, education, cooking<\/p>\n

\u2713 Humor<\/strong>:\u00a0 the everyday humor in family life<\/p>\n

[poll id=\u201d3\u2033]<\/p>\n

When the Catholic Blog Awards were announced<\/strong><\/span> earlier this year, I found myself straining to see who, from among the bloggers I follow regularly, would emerge near the top of the \u201cMust Read\u201d lists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I could learn<\/strong> from the highest-ranked writers, I was sure, and my prose would take on a new fervor or an as-yet-unseen panache.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But what I found, in perusing the top titles, was that I had no inclination to become like them.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019m 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.\u00a0 I\u2019ll never match the life-long media experience of Deacon Greg Kandra, or the ecclesial experience of Fr. Zuhlsdorf.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No, I am who I am.\u00a0 Some people will read my blog, others won\u2019t bother.\u00a0 And that\u2019s OK.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What would happen, I pondered, if Arthur Conan Doyle were to write the sequel to Anne of Green Gables<\/span>?\u00a0 Or, in the Catholic world, if Donna Marie Cooper O\u2019Boyle were to pick up her pen and ghost write Glenn Beck\u2019s next political best-seller?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0But drawing wisdom from Mother Teresa\u2019s famed quote about many kinds of children and many kinds of flowers, I note that there are many kinds of bloggers.\u00a0 The most successful bloggers write about things large and small, about things sacred and mundane,\u00a0the things about which they\u2019re most passionate.<\/p>\n

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Author\/editor Wally Metts, chair of communication and media at Spring Arbor University and author of The Daysman<\/strong> blog, offers a humorous look at the stuff bloggers like:\u00a0 ordinary stuff like comments and pageviews.\u00a0 He writes about how he knows just who is reading, and how they found their way there:<\/p>\n

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 \u201cjamba juice cheeseburger chili\u201d, \u201cwedding homilies ephesians 5\u201d, and \u201cargentina casa rosa.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read Wally\u2019s essay in full here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

NOW GO<\/span>!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> Click on your favorite topics in the poll above!\u00a0 I\u2019ll be chatting about the results in the near future.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, your chance to weigh in:\u00a0 Please take a minute to vote!\u00a0 What do YOU most want to read about on a Catholic blog?\u00a0 Here are the categories: \u2713 Faith matters:\u00a0 liturgy, sacraments, prayer, explanations of doctrine \u2713 Political matters:\u00a0 Congressional actions, political candidates, the military, \u2713 Cultural matters:\u00a0 film, television, literature and the arts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,279],"tags":[2764,2779,2780,2812,2864,2865,758],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls","category-writing-2","tag-culture","tag-faith","tag-family","tag-humor","tag-politics","tag-polls","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"\nREADER'S CHOICE: What Do You Want to Read About? 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