Latter Day Blogs is pretty good, but the strength of St. Blog’s is that it suggests a place in which this online community exists.

They used to refer to on-line LDS posters as members of the virtual ward.

Some object on the grounds that a choir is a better analogy than a space. Note that the founding metaphor of the blog community is spacial–the blogosphere. Note also that a choir is rather more directed and harmonious than we expect to be, that admission to it is controlled by the choir whereas admission to the sacred precincts of a tabernacle is at least in conception controlled by God. While singing ought to be an act of praise, we tend to think of it as entertainment, whereas we are always aware of our presence before God in a tabernacle. Getting down to specifics, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a somewhat unhip public relations gesture. It serves to present an friendly face to an antipathetic world, and is thus at root defensive. The tabernacle, on the other hand, is the sacred space that conceptually contains the world; it is at root expansive.

10 percent to 20 percent of those are related to religion.

Many blogs, particularly those by the most fervently religious, are anonymous.

She guards her anonymity because it lets her write things that some in her community might perceive as less than flattering, which could potentially compromise her daughters' ability to marry well, she said, though they are now respectively an infant and a toddler.

My hope is that it'll be very positive in bringing people together around the planet, because it'll make communication between different countries more possible.

building of something very new and special,