Miscellany: January 2007 Archives

Got this in the mail. How do you say "chutzpah" in Latin?

From: "Lee Anderson"
Subject: Stblogs.com - A new home for Catholic writers
To: leeanderson2000@hotmail.com
Dear Friend,

Please accept a special invitation for a sneak peek to a new community for Catholic writers — Stblogs.com.

StBlogs.com is currently in Beta, and has not yet been launched publicly. We are still working on exciting new features and free services to raise the profile of Catholic writers and cover breaking Catholic news.

But right now we are pleased to offer you and a select group
of others a chance to register yourName.stBlogs.com and claim your space and place in the newest community of Catholic writers on the web.

If your involvement in the blogosphere has been limited so far to lurking or commenting, you will want to open a blog at Stblogs.com immediately.

Isn’t it time you contributed your thoughts, insights or expertise to the Great Catholic Conversation? Stblogs.com gives you the means to do so…quickly, easily and at no charge.

But what if you already own a blog? That's ok. Let me share 3 reasons why you will want to start a Stblogs.com blog too.

First, Stblogs.com is a Powerful Domain — For years Catholic bloggers have affectionately called their community "St. Blog’s." Today St. Blog’s has entered the lexicon, with Google indexing nearly half a million references on the web!

When readers search for Catholic bloggers, chances are good they’ll end up at Stblogs.com. Shouldn’t you be there too?

Second, Stblogs.com offers Powerful Tools — Don’t take my word for it. Spend a few minutes opening a Stblogs.com blog today, and discover how easy and fun it can be. Choose your own template. Reserve your own Stblogs.com blogname. Publish your thoughts and even upload video effortlessly. Our suite of blogging tools is intuitive yet powerful (and more features are being added daily!)

Best of all, as a member of Stblogs.com, your recent posts and your popular posts may be featured on the Stblogs.com homepage, in addition to our homepage blogroll. This is just one of several free promotional tools Stblogs.com has planned exclusively for our members.

Finally, StBlogs.com is Free — Blogging at Stblogs.com is easy and free…so what do you have to lose? Find new readers by reserving your Stblogs.com blogname and uploading at least a selection of your writings. You are already an established member of the St Blog’s community. That's all the more reason to become a member of Stblogs.com too!

As a voracious Catholic reader and sometime-writer myself, I’m very excited about the launch of Stblogs.com. I’m looking forward to helping cultivate one of the most intellectually stimulating and invigorating Catholic communities on the web.

I'm writing especially to you today because I believe your particpation will help make StBlogs.com all the more invigorating and vibrant. I hope you’ll join us there!

Sincerely,
Lee Anderson

P.S. Opening your free Stblogs.com blog, can be done with a few simple keystrokes by going here http://stblogs.com/wp-signup.php/ And if you have any questions, comments, concerns (or words of encouragement!) you’d like to share with me directly, please respond to this email or write to me at leeanderson2000@yahoo.com

It appears to be an effort by book publisher Rick Rotondi. I wish him all the best in his work, but there does seem to be a strong possibility of confusion between stblogs.org -- a non-profit group domain for Catholic blogs, active since June 2003 -- and his stblogs.com -- a new project that runs ads and looks like a commercial venture -- so I'd have preferred he choose some other domain name. Pff.