{"id":715,"date":"2010-05-31T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:46:24","slug":"five-years-of-blogging-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Five years of blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first post on this blog<\/a> was uploaded on 31 May 2005. I didn’t have much idea of where it was going to take me, but I think I’m one of those people for whom blogging is a natural medium and so, despite having all sorts of sympathy with those who keep it<\/a> at arms length<\/a>, or have abandoned it<\/a>, I’m not going to stop. Rather the reverse, in fact \u2013 I have various plans for developing my blogging further, once I get fully well again. <\/p>\n

In five years I have posted 3162 times here, of which more than a third were photos<\/a>! I’ve also had thousands of comments \u2013 one of the most frustrating things recently has been the (hopefully temporary) loss of historical comments, when I was forced to shift from Haloscan to the new Blogger template. I still have the old comments on file, so if anyone comes across a straightforward way to import haloscan comments into Blogger, please let me know. I read and value every comment received.<\/p>\n

A handful of highlights:
– Playing a very small role<\/a> in the SPCK controversy, which led to me getting a mention in Private Eye<\/a>
– Seeing some of my more autobiographical musings<\/a> feed into an excellent book about ministry<\/a>
– Having some of my Peak Oil posts published on Energy Bulletin
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There are reams of advice on the internet about how to maximise your blog ratings and numbers, but whilst I did spend time on those a few years ago, I decided that wasn’t the direction that I wanted to take the blog in. This is my thinking space (my pensieve)<\/a>; as such, I have no wish to see it specialising in one area rather than another. That would feel like a form of gagging or self-censorship. It will continue to be a place where I think aloud about my ministry<\/a>, where I make notes on the films<\/a> and books<\/a> and other culture<\/a> I consume, where I continue to work out the implications of our ecological crisis<\/a>, where I throw up the things that amuse and delight me<\/a>. (The one exception to that was setting up my ‘daughter blog’, where my talks and sermons get posted<\/a>; I’m still musing over whether that is the right thing to have done, but so far so good.) I believe that I have a small but dedicated readership, and that’s enough to keep me going.<\/p>\n

In so far as things may change in the future, I am hopeful that I will have the time to write more substantially on theological<\/a> and philosophical<\/a> questions<\/a>, especially book reviews, and possibly film reviews too (in other words, more reviews like this one<\/a>). I hope to begin that quite soon \u2013 I have a particular debt needing paying on that score.<\/p>\n

Thank you<\/span> for reading.<\/p>\n

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