interesting post and debate in the commets on the post at living room on holy huddle blogging which is about whether christian blogs are just read by christians and therefore insular. i confess that i whilst it’s interesting, just get on with it!!!!!
i think by virtue of putting stuff out there you’ll get readers of all sorts. i blog with typepad. like many people i often click on some of the latest updated sites – i’m sure i get readers that way. i get plenty of readers via google often as a result of typing in strange things (i remember the discovery at one stage that we had had visitors to the grace web site who had typed naked fat men wearing tights into google!!!) – visitors who type say ‘thom yorke’ who find out i’ve written about radiohead or ‘alternative worship’ and discover some groups they can relate to. does it matter what is christian and what isn’t? not to me…. i want to live life – part of that is a buzz about following christ and particularly the adventure of the connection between faith and new media/culture stuff – hence the worship tricks, but it’s also a genuine interest in film, music, art, flash, fun stuff, resistance to capitalism and a whole host of other stuff…
if all you do is church stuff yes that’s a problem but other than that chill out and get on with it….
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got to agree with you there Jonny – we get loads of visitors from people searching from google. we had one last night from Iran who was searching for ‘mt sinai muslim mosque’, very random.
agreed Jonny…
I get too distracted/fixated sometimes
cheers
I’m with ya… I think I tend to attract more Christian readers then not, but when I talk about culture stuff, particularly ads that have struck me, I tend to get loads of hits off google as a result.
It’s a debate worth having, but one that seems to recur. I wrote about this two years ago in The Church-Internet (dis)connection.
Jonny I have met lots of ‘non Christians’ who have never heard of ‘a blog’ – so maybe it is just that Christians have got too technical???!!!
moya trust me there are lots of people who have never heard of blogs – christian or not… but hey it’s nice that so many christians are on thr front end of the curve (as christians have often been actually – see tallskinnykiwi recent post for a good spiel on it) or are we just sad losers?!
I get a few non-Christian readers on my blog, but mostly it’s because I’ve met them while playing in a pub somewhere. My blog is meant primarily for Christians, but I welcome any visitors. Most of my “connecting” with non-Christians comes from playing in pubs — more of an ‘analog’ thing…
Is a church considered POMO if it loses the litergy? This was a question I was asked. Kinda caught me off-guard.