A third method of ranking biblioblogs was introduced recently by Daniel McClellan, who decided to ignore Alexa ranking and the Lacanian-Wrongian objective scale, and take a democratic approach, asking people to vote. The biblioblogosphere has spoken, and Exploring Our Matrix has been crowned the #1 biblioblog using this new method. Thank you to everyone who voted.
Of course, it may be that two people voted for me, and one for everyone else, since Daniel said that the total number of voters could be counted on one hand. Or perhaps one person voted, and they voted for me? But at least I got the privilege of being caricatured. Thanks, Daniel!
The whole ranking thing is meaningless if it is treated as anything other than a fun bit of pseudo-competition. The number of hits will not tell how much attention people are paying to what you write. And voting may indicate more about the motivation of a blog’s readers than about the blog itself.
Plus, as Dr. Jim Linville suggests, all this competitive posturing, even in gest, may be one of the reasons that female bloggers avoid our company.
But I’m glad that some readers have been finding things I’ve posted helpful, meaningful, entertaining, and various other things that I hoped they would be.
And I admit that I find the fact that there is a spoof ranking using the Urim and Thummim – an appropriate Biblical method for evaluating Biblical studies blogs!
Meanwhile, life and blogging go on, and Jim West is already looking for submissions for the next Biblical Studies Carnival.
Meanwhile, around the biblioblogosphere, bloggers are making resolutions (for themselves and in some cases for others) and sharing intentions for the new year. Ken Schenck, Doug Chaplin, and Michael Halcomb are among those who have gotten the ball rolling.
My resolutions for this year are to join the Dharma Initiative, train as a Jedi, captain a starship, learn Klingon (largely for the purpose of family history research), and last but not least, to make fewer frivolous resolutions and more serious ones.
If I ever get around to that last one, I will surely blog about it.
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