Ah, another week, another post chock full of links from the nar­row sec­tor of the world wide that I like to call the blogosphere.

I thought I’d get a lit­tle bit geo­graph­i­cally spe­cific with this lit­tle link edi­tion. Just to give you an idea of the spread of blogs that I read (that you should too). This is by no means com­pre­hen­sive – but here are some of the homes of reg­u­lar com­menters, peo­ple I know, and peo­ple I reckon you should dis­cover (along with some choice posts from their sites).

Right-o. Lets go.

Start­ing with those in my own neck of the woods – the Townsville scene… (in no par­tic­u­lar order). 

1. Tim – doesn’t post often and when he does it’s usu­ally a YouTube video.
2. Leah – is the Andrew Bolt of the North Queens­land Chris­t­ian blo­gos­phere, or per­haps the Tim Blair. She also cov­ered North Queensland’s lost and found saga this week where a local lad from a local church went miss­ing in the bush, and was found a cou­ple of days later.
3. Stuss – has picked up the pace a lit­tle, though most of what she’s say­ing is about gar­den­ing and declut­ter­ing. Which is fine. Because both are good things.
4. Phoebe – hasn’t really said any­thing for 21 days. I just counted. But no list of blog­gers from Townsville would be com­plete with­out her.
5. Joel – if Leah is the Tim Blair of the Townsville blo­gos­phere then Joel is the Piers Ackerman.
6. Carly – is an edu­ca­tion stu­dent and gives some inter­est­ing insight into the female psy­che with pieces like the one she wrote last week about Oprah.
7. Chris barely posts enough to rank a men­tion. But he’s a blog­ger. In Townsville. So he sneaks in.

If you’re in Townsville, and I’ve missed you, let me know in the comments.

Mov­ing south, here are some of the nota­bles in Brisbane…

1. Kutz – I men­tioned his new endeav­our last week. It’s been trick­ling along. I’m sure more com­ments from nice friendly read­ers would keep his moti­va­tion lev­els up.
2. Tim and Amy – The same could be said for these two. They’ve kept a pretty steady pace and you should go over, read what they have to say, and say hello.
3. Simone – well, I’ve talked about her blog enough for you to know what goes down over there. She gets a prize for being the third blog­ger to men­tion my dad* this week. Her lit­tle piece of spec­u­la­tion about nar­ra­tive in the new cre­ation was inter­est­ing enough to get my hip­pocam­pus fir­ing today.
4. Will Hen­der­son – gets the prize for being the first to men­tion dad*, and also for being the first Acts 29 affil­i­ated church planter in Aus­tralia – a story that appar­ently hadn’t received all that much cov­er­age before I men­tioned it the other day (based on some posts like this one from Jeff Attack)… check out the web­site for his upcom­ing plant. Unfor­tu­nately it’s a bit grungy. And we all know how I feel about grunge.

Now, on to Syd­ney. The city of my birth and home of many good blogs.

1. Izaac is back from a hol­i­day and tak­ing on the chal­lenge of post­ing about Chris­t­ian love and social jus­tice.
2. Ben cel­e­brated his birth­day yes­ter­day – and I promised him a link. Then he posted a story about how the Gov­er­na­tor has the Conan sword in his office – that I was all set to fea­ture in my next lit­tle string of “Curiosi­ties” posts.
3. At the foun­tain­side Soph asks the impor­tant ques­tions about train eti­quette – some­thing we’ll have to (re)familiarise our­selves with next year.
4. Ben (of the Bath­gate vari­ety) lists five things that made him tough(er). I score one on his list.
5. Dave Miers man­aged to scoop Mikey Lynch by post­ing an inter­view with Andrew Heard, one of the Geneva Church plant­ing crew (another post on the net­work from Dave), before Mikey could wrap up his series of sim­i­lar inter­views with church plant­ing fig­ures (includ­ing Will Hen­der­son and Al Stew­art).

Mikey (from Tas­ma­nia) was also the sec­ond per­son to, some­what vic­ar­i­ously, men­tion dad this week because his name came up in one of the posts from the afore­men­tioned series of interviews.

It has also become appar­ent – from what Andrew Heard said on Dave’s blog and what Al Stew­art said on Mikey’s – that the Geneva port­man­teau was only a vicious rumour, and that the name is actu­ally a ref­er­ence to Calvin’s work in that city. Which is a good thing.

And to con­clude, here are my favourite ten posts from my blog this week (includ­ing bits from Robyn and Benny).

1. Benny on Ministry
2. Robyn on Gram­mar (PS – you should all encour­age Robyn to blog more – she needs some com­ment love…)
3. Good bad haircuts
4. Bad rel­e­vance
5. How to pick a cafe
6. Cool stuff to do with your photos/iPhone
7. Tips from a guru (my dad – since he’s the flavour of the blo­gos­phere these days…*)
8. The one about being wrong.
9. The one about yawn­ing.
10.  The one about being a PK, and the fol­low up about being a PK being a bit like being Harry Pot­ter.

* I should point out that these con­stant men­tions of dad being men­tioned are a mix­ture of patri-pride and because I think it’s slightly funny that he feels a sense of dis­com­fort about being in the spot­light. It’s not because I think he’s super spe­cial (though he is). And if you want to join the fan club here’s the video I made for his 50th.

Author: Nathan Campbell

Nathan runs St Eutychus. He is currently a student at the Queensland Theological College. In a previous professional life he worked in public relations for an economic development and tourism marketing organisation. He is married to Robyn. He likes coffee and the internet.

Read Nathan's 3665 articles.