CHARISMATICA

"How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them"
By Bob Walsh (Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2007, 351 pages)
An excellent book on why one should blog and how to get started. Bob suggests that one starts by reading lots of blogs and become initially engaged in the blogoshere by leaving comments.
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This blog now has a slightly different address since moving to a new host. Before, there were 2 addresses that could be used to get to the front page: charismatica.com and charismatica.com/blog.
Now www.charismatica.com is the sole proper address.
There are a bunch of you out there which have linked to this blog using charismatica.com/blog. It [...]

I have just spent over a month dealing with a major hacker/spammer problem in my websites and databases. One data base that I ran 7 blogs out of was taken over and the hacker had changed the root passcodes so that I no longer had the necessary permission to change my own database nor did [...]

Please bear with me while I rebuild this blog. We recently experienced a serious hacking/spam attack that saw more than 100 pages of spam links somehow added to our blog footer and made it necessary to flush our data base and start over in order to get control once more.
In the process I decided [...]

The 2nd Anniversary of this blog went unnoticed while I was flat on my back nursing some kind of bug.   Charismatica Blog started two years ago on April 2, 2006.
 This actually makes me a ‘tweener’ in the blogosphere. The ‘ancient sages’ came before 2003, the ‘mature’ webloggers started in 2004-5, then came the popular [...]

By Lisa Sabin-Wilson (Hoboken,NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2008, 384 pages)
Brand new for 2008, an essential book for those using WordPress in publishing a blog. <Read the Review on my Blogging Ministry site>
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Day two at GodblogCon started with Paul Spears, from Torrey institute of Biola University and a contributor @ ScriptoriumDaily.com; talking about “Substance in Blogging and the Case for Blog Euthanasia”. Dr. Spears pointed out that millions of blogs are started every month and multi-millions are abandoned or flushed. The fact is that not everyone is [...]

Greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada, I am here at the Blogworld & New Media Expo and GodblogCon 2007, along with thousands of fellow bloggers. Today has been an eye opening experience. I am like a kid in a candy store. < Read the rest on my AFTF blog>
Note: Podcasts of the GodblogCon sessions are [...]

I have been tagged by Carl Thomas of Revival Blog. They call this a ‘meme’, I didn’t even know what a meme was until I got tagged and read all about it on Rich Tatum’s blog. I borrowed the following from Rich:
Here are the rules, according to John Smulo, the originator of the meme:

Those [...]

Carl Thomas is gone with his youth group this week but there are several great articles by guest writers that are well worth reading on his Revival Blog.
First, there is an article by David Copeland: “What I have Learned From Revival“. What a great article and summary. Believe me you could read a dozen books [...]