Update - if this post looks a bit weird to you, it is so for a good reason. Allow me to esplainify myself.
The download on this page is a paper I prepared for my seminar on Theological Blogging at GodBlogCon05.
The idea was to make it available for the participants in my seminar, let them take it home and critique it and send it back to me. Then I would post a final version later. I wanted to just make it available to them because we would be dialoguing about the paper in the seminar and they would know where I was coming from very well.
So, the idea was that I would create this throwaway post with a link to a download of the paper. I titled it XYZ Theology because I am quite sure I have never had a post with a title like thisSo and it with a title like that it would be easily searchable and findable using the google search. The plan was to backdate the post (a feature you can use in Typepad) and bury it several months ago where no one would find it. Then I was going to tell the seminar participants to just go to my blog and do the google search for it and voila, there it is. Trouble is, since I was posting this thing 10 minutes before the session started google doesn't exactly do their indexing on my schedule. So, I just had to go ahead and post it right away.
Thus the saga of the weird post, I supppose I'll just leave it here with the caveat that this is a work in progress. Haven given the talk at GodBlogCon I've already received some helpful suggestions for revisions and am getting editorial help. So, if you want to download this, read it and critique it. I would appreciate general editorial suggestions, correcting grammar and spelling mistakes, but suggestions for content revision are also welcome. I'm thinking that I'll probably also just start serializing it here and at Theologica and get feedback that way. And like I said, I'll post a revised version sometime later.
Jolly David Goodness! 33 pages on theological blogging?! Looks to be a white paper in its own right, perhaps rivals the "we know more than our pastors" white paper by Tim Bednar over at e-church.com :)
Hope to find 2 hours some where to read it, and provide some feedback and reactions.. looks like a good work, and worthy of a Presbyterian :)
Posted by: djchuang | October 17, 2005 at 03:14 PM
DJ - think of this paper as the blob. The more I think about it and the more feedback I get the bigger it grows. I'm thinking that with just a few suggestions over the last couple of days I can get this thing up to pushing 40 pages.
Posted by: David Wayne | October 17, 2005 at 04:04 PM