I’ve enjoyed reading the non-meme going around where bloggers post the blogs they read most. I was not entirely sure I could be fair or unbiased, so I checked the “Trends” in my Google Reader to see what I have been reading. Here are the results:
It seems there are 8 blogs where I’ve read 100% of the posts (excluding my own, of course), and they are:
- Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth (a must read)
- New Leaven (if I ever move to sunny CA, I’m joining his church)
- Ancient Hebrew Poetry (sheer genius)
- The Writing on the Wall (sheer comedy)
- Scripture Zealot (what can I say, sheer Jeff)
and not appearing because of the infrequent postings of late, but still at 100%:
- He Is Sufficient (it’s great to have him back)
- Gentle Wisdom (always the voice of reason)
- Katagraphais (a new found friend)
and rounding out the top 10 at 97%:
- Jack of All Trades (I’m sorry, I skipped some of the Carolina news)
and tied at 94%:
- The Church of Jesus Christ (another new found friend)
- Living the Crucified Life (another relatively new found friend)
- Jim West (sheer frivolity disguised as a biblioblog).
Disclaimer: It took at least 13 posts in the last 30 days to make it into the top 20, an issue you may take up with Google. There are other 100%ers who wrote under 13, but it didn’t seem fair to say I’ve read 100% of a blog’s posts if they’ve only published 3 posts in the last month.
#1 by Bob MacDonald on July 8, 2009 - 3:06 pm
Peter – after the competition for facebook friends – what should be done for Biblioblogs!
I am grateful for you as a reader. As you will have seen, I have finished a first draft of Job – and I have updated the PDF with a better title. My title for the poem is ‘A Parable of Dust and Ashes’.
I am almost ready to defend my tone and word choices. Though I would do this with no readers at all and subject my reading to Leviathan alone, with Behemoth as a kibbitzer, I am very glad for real feedback – I know that after 4 months work, feedback on such a subject is not an easy task.
#2 by petermlopez on July 8, 2009 - 3:34 pm
I am grateful to you as well, and I look forward to the completed work. I will try my best to provide whatever feedback that I can. Thanks.
#3 by Polycarp on July 8, 2009 - 6:11 pm
Thanks, Peter! I read mine in Outlook – but I wonder what it would look like. Thanks, again.
#4 by petermlopez on July 9, 2009 - 5:51 am
No sweat, keep up the good work.
#5 by hiscrivener on July 10, 2009 - 3:02 pm
Got a new name below, big guy…
#6 by Jim on July 8, 2009 - 8:23 pm
well you hateful thing…
#7 by petermlopez on July 9, 2009 - 5:53 am
Hateful? Jim, I thought you would be flattered. Should I have said “brilliant biblioblog disguised as sheer frivolity”?
#8 by Scripture Zealot on July 8, 2009 - 10:30 pm
I’m honored. I don’t look forward to being sheered though.
Jeff
#9 by petermlopez on July 9, 2009 - 5:53 am
No sheering, I promise, or shearing either.
#10 by tc robinson on July 9, 2009 - 1:54 am
PeterM, what I’m I going to do without you, my friend? But I’m truly honored.
#11 by petermlopez on July 9, 2009 - 5:56 am
I’m happy to, my friend.
#12 by ElShaddai Edwards on July 9, 2009 - 11:54 am
Thank you, Peter – I’m grateful to have *any* readers at this point!
#13 by petermlopez on July 9, 2009 - 1:21 pm
It’s my pleasure. Keep up the good work.
#14 by Bitsy Griffin on July 10, 2009 - 1:34 pm
I am so honored to have made your list. Carolina news aside
I’d go to TC’s church too – at the drop of a hat. Bit of a commute from the East Coast though.
I’ve looked at this post several times thinking it’s really a pretty good method, but I don’t read everything through Google Reader. I’ve got those that I read through WordPress just because it’s so very easy to subscribe that way – that is how I access this blog and quite a few of the others you’ve got listed. St. Pete’s comes through my Google Reader.
Also, since I’ve been job hunting, I “touch” every post, so it looks like it’s been read even if I scrolled over it looking for job titles. Everyone/thing is at or near 100% right now because of this process. I guess that makes everyone tied for first! I wonder how long the percentages will take to correct themselves when I can pull those job feeds off? mmmmmmm
#15 by petermlopez on July 10, 2009 - 1:41 pm
You’re right, this method might not work for everyone. And I’m not saying mine aren’t a little skewed. After all, some feeds just have 1 paragraph feeds that you have to click through to read, and I don’t always do that unless I really want to read it. But I actually read the vast majority of mine on my iPhone (through Google Reader) while killing time. I can consume 20-30 posts while at the courthouse waiting an an hour for a five-minute hearing.
#16 by hiscrivener on July 10, 2009 - 3:02 pm
Aw, shucks (kicking the dirt below). Garsh (wiping a tear from his eye).
“He likes me. He really likes me.”
(He says jokingly to deflect his real feelings of humility, love and adoration. Honestly, thanks brother. That means a lot).
Now… back to the Wall-cave to decipher how I can beat [eh hem, get this one, Lopez] ‘Multitudinous Mekong Puffer” on #read ratings. Whatever that means
).
#17 by petermlopez on July 13, 2009 - 9:17 am
Thanks, my friend. Happy to read.
#18 by brian on July 12, 2009 - 6:46 pm
I think yours is the only list I’ve made so far though I do tie in with West and Polycarp at 94%.
#19 by petermlopez on July 13, 2009 - 9:18 am
brian, I so completely missed that you were tied at 94%. I don’t know how that happened. It is an error I am correcting right now.
#20 by brianfulthorp on July 15, 2009 - 2:00 pm
I forgot that I was mentioned on Mark Stevens’ blog too. So I know at two people read my blog now and again!
#21 by petermlopez on July 15, 2009 - 3:16 pm
and a better two you couldn’t have.
#22 by brianfulthorp on July 15, 2009 - 3:27 pm