Add Quaker Blog Watch to your site

A few months ago I started keeping a links blog that evolved into the "Quaker Blog Watch" (formally at home at nonviolence.org/quaker though included as a column elsewhere). This is my answer to the aggregation question that a few of us were tossing around in Sixth Month. I've never believed in an uberBlog that would to supercede all of our individual ones and act as gate-keeper to "proper" Quakerism. For all my Quaker Conservativism I'm still a Hicksite and we're into a certain live-and-let live creative disorder in our religious life.

I also don't like technical solutions. It helps to have a human doing this. And it helps (I think) if they have some opinions. When I began my list of annotated Quaker links I called it my "Subjective Guide" and these links are also somewhat subjective. I don't include every post on Quakerism: only the ones that make me think or that challenge me in some way. Mediocrity, good intentions and a famous last name mean less to me than simple faithfulness to one's call.

There's no way to keep stats but it looks like the links are being used (hours after I stumble across a previously-unknown site I see comments from regular Quaker Ranter readers!). Here's the next step: instructions on adding the last seven entries of the Quaker blog watch to your site. I imagine some of you might want to try it out on your sidebar. If so, let me know how it works: I'm open to tweaking it. And do remember I'll be disappearing for a few days sometime soon (still waiting, that kid can't stay in there too long.)