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13/08/2009
Just a quick note to point you dear readers over to Posterous if you’d like to chat. A while back I had disabled comments on this website for esthetic and logistical reasons, yet now a place like Posterous opens up a few interesting possibilities.
There is a link on the top right hand side of this page, or you can just click here: Apoposterous! (shout that as Harry Potter would).
There is a link on the top right hand side of this page, or you can just click here: Apoposterous! (shout that as Harry Potter would).
Important RSS feed update
02/08/2007
Yet another update of my blogging software (RapidWeaver) has allowed me to implement the cool features provided by FeedBurner. This will lift some of the blind spots that prevent me from knowing what my readership actually reads, and this will eventually help me decide what topics and what kind of posts (series or stand-allone articles) are generally preferred.
Please use this url for your news readers, from now on: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Apokatastasis
The previous url will reach its end-of-life very soon...
Carnivals...
20/06/2007
Sarah, from "SnoringScholar" has done us the great honour of featuring my post on the Vatican's International Theological Commission's report on unbaptised children on her beautiful blog. Please make sure to check her fine blog over here, especially if you like flowers! Living in Scotland sometimes makes you forget that this is the season during which they grow.... as I write this, rain is pouring down, and it's cold enough for me to be wearing winter clothes. Oh well... Sarah has done a great round up of recent Catholic-oriented posts in the blogosphere... let her guide you through them!
Updated RSS feed
14/06/2007
Those who had previously subscribed to my RSS feed, please note that the url has changed, as an unintended consequence of my recent tinkering...
Therefore, please take a couple of seconds to reset your RSS aggregator by clicking on the RSS link in the sidebar on the right of this page.
Right, that's enough procrastinating for me... back to regular posting!
Therefore, please take a couple of seconds to reset your RSS aggregator by clicking on the RSS link in the sidebar on the right of this page.
Right, that's enough procrastinating for me... back to regular posting!
Have your say!
12/06/2007
As you have certainly noticed, I have been experimenting various layouts and presentations for this blog. Basically, I’m looking for something minimalist, elegant and yet powerful enough to allow readers to browse contents easily, in a way that adapts to their needs, rather than them having to adapt to the way the blog is structured.
One noticeable consequence of this tinkering has been an increase in the number of hits from search engines, Google and Yahoo. The audience of this blog is gently increasing, and a number of readers are returning, which is a good thing indeed!
Currently, there are three ways for the reader, that would be you, to browse the contents of this blog:
- categories: these are “Church Fathers”, “Symbolism”, etc. that are listed in the top section of the sidebar, on the right of this page.
- by date: although usually of little significance for the topics I cover in this blog, each post gets a time stamp that allows you to group posts by date. This may be useful if you wanted to see the evolution of the topics I cover over time...
- tags: this is a new feature of this blog. Each post gets several tags, or keywords, that reflect the contents of the post. Several posts cover the same topics with different angles, e.g. “Reintegration”, and this overlap is reflected by the relative size of each tag in what is called a “tag cloud”, which you can see on the bottom of the sidebar.
Click around, experiment, and let me know how it feels in the comments.
I have also chosen to give the blog a different feel from the rest of the website, in order to reflect the different style and content it offers.
Additionally, and this is an important aspect for me, I want to create a very comfortable environment for the reader, with a pleasant layout that makes you want to come back and read more...
Lastly, and most importantly, I aim to develop a network of related posts that give a variety of sources that treat of the same topic, reintegration of course, and the ways that it impacts our lives.
On all these points, your feedback will influence the evolution of this blog, regarding both format and content. If there are things you think I should cover that I haven’t, or things that I should be doing differently, feel free to leave your comments in the comment section or by email. I will give them my most open-minded consideration ;-)
I still am not entirely satisfied with the present system—can one ever be?—and one likely change ahead will be the hosting of the website on a better server than the current one. That transition, hopefully, should go unnoticed by the readers in most cases...
Remember that you can subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog so you can be sure never to miss a single post, without having to come back to the web page every day... There are plenty free RSS readers around for both Mac (I use NewsFire, but can recommend Vienna as a free alternative) and Windows.
One noticeable consequence of this tinkering has been an increase in the number of hits from search engines, Google and Yahoo. The audience of this blog is gently increasing, and a number of readers are returning, which is a good thing indeed!
Currently, there are three ways for the reader, that would be you, to browse the contents of this blog:
- categories: these are “Church Fathers”, “Symbolism”, etc. that are listed in the top section of the sidebar, on the right of this page.
- by date: although usually of little significance for the topics I cover in this blog, each post gets a time stamp that allows you to group posts by date. This may be useful if you wanted to see the evolution of the topics I cover over time...
- tags: this is a new feature of this blog. Each post gets several tags, or keywords, that reflect the contents of the post. Several posts cover the same topics with different angles, e.g. “Reintegration”, and this overlap is reflected by the relative size of each tag in what is called a “tag cloud”, which you can see on the bottom of the sidebar.
Click around, experiment, and let me know how it feels in the comments.
I have also chosen to give the blog a different feel from the rest of the website, in order to reflect the different style and content it offers.
Additionally, and this is an important aspect for me, I want to create a very comfortable environment for the reader, with a pleasant layout that makes you want to come back and read more...
Lastly, and most importantly, I aim to develop a network of related posts that give a variety of sources that treat of the same topic, reintegration of course, and the ways that it impacts our lives.
On all these points, your feedback will influence the evolution of this blog, regarding both format and content. If there are things you think I should cover that I haven’t, or things that I should be doing differently, feel free to leave your comments in the comment section or by email. I will give them my most open-minded consideration ;-)
I still am not entirely satisfied with the present system—can one ever be?—and one likely change ahead will be the hosting of the website on a better server than the current one. That transition, hopefully, should go unnoticed by the readers in most cases...
Remember that you can subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog so you can be sure never to miss a single post, without having to come back to the web page every day... There are plenty free RSS readers around for both Mac (I use NewsFire, but can recommend Vienna as a free alternative) and Windows.