Tsumani

"My name is Anthony Pratley, I am a Youth and Family Director at Trinity Lutheran Church in Frankfort, MI. My high school youth group has started a project to raise money for the tsunami relief efforts. We decided to sell "virtual bricks" on our website at http://www.rebuildinghope.org. Each brick costs $1. Our goal is to sell 1 brick for every victim of the horrible disaster.

Luckily, all of our efforts will be matched dollar for dollar by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

Could you please help spread the word? Send emails, post on blogs, forward to your contacts, or buy bricks for friends and challenge them to do the same. Thank you!"

Thoughts of Many

"Thing is, deleting a blog and it's archives may make one feel safer. But it is the world wide web, and out there in some search engine somewhere, or linked on another blog, are old words that can come back to haunt us."
- Benediction Blogs On

Fifth Annual Weblog Awards - The 2005 Bloggies

"The Bloggies are a set of 30 publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs. This is the fifth ceremony... Everyone's invited to take part in the awarding process...

From now until 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) on Monday, January 10, 2005, anyone can nominate their favorite weblogs.

That Wednesday, January 12, three panels of 50 voters will receive an e-mail. It will list the weblogs that have receieved the most nominations in ten categories. They will have until 10:00 PM EST on Monday, January 17 to privately submit their five favorites (six for Weblog of the Year) for each category. The five (or six for Weblog of the Year) receiving the most votes will become finalists.

On Thursday, January 20, the finalists will be announced and voting will be open again to choose the winners.

Voting will close at 10:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 31. The winners will be posted sometime between Sunday, March 13 and Tuesday, March 15."

Go here to nominate your favourites now.