2006 Top Sites

Happy New year everybody. Year end seems like a good time to put together another "top X" list. So, this time I decided to pull the top 50. And here they are:

1. The ChaliceBlog


2. PeaceBang


3. Boy in the Bands: Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith


4. Philocrites


5. A Minister's Musings


6. Yet Another Unitarian Universalist


7. A Spiritual Walk Together


8. The Happy Feminist


9. Making Chutney


10. PeaceBang's Beauty Tips For Ministers


11. The Journey


12. Media Nation


13. it's all one thing


14. CUUMBAYA


15. Shadow of Diogenes


16. Authentic Threads


17. Errant Frogs


18. The Wild Hunt


19. ministrare


20. RadicalHapa is Joseph Santos-Lyons


21. Live from UU PLANET


22. Sisyphus


23. Jess's Journal


24. Paul Wilczynski's Observations


25. Sexuality and Religion: What's the Connection?


26. Never Say Never To Your Traveling Self


27. Elizabeth's Little Blog


28. Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show


29. iMinister


30. BiddiesInMyBrain


31. Trivium


32. debitage


33. Unitarian Panentheist


34. Returning . . .


35. Red State Rebels


36. Spirituality and Sunflowers


37. Reignite


38. Unity


39. BiddiesInMyBrain


40. Finding My UU Soul


41. the Socinian


42. Renewed Hope


43. Reflections


44. Root and Source


45. the yes church


46. UU Carnival


47. The UU Enforcer


48. The Ranting Rev


49. Birthing Journey


50. FUUSE

Some blog name changes and other factors might have moved the standings around a bit, for example if your blog name changed from "Arbitrary Name" to "arbitraryname.com" then the links over to your blog would have been split between 2 "different blogs". Also, this is a total over the year. if your blog is new then it is unlikely to reach the top.

How many people clicked through? Well for the folks at the top spots I sent over 2,000 "Unique Views" (as defined by Google Analytics) to each of those sites. For the sites at the low end it's a few hundred, and somewhere in between for everyone else.

Again, happy new year, and start thinking of those Blog Award nominations!

Holiday Song

If, like others, you are looking for something fun and singable at a holiday celebration (yeah I know I am probably way too late on this, maybe next year) then I would recommend checking out Where is the light? by Peter Mayer. If my 3 year old can start singing "The light's inside of me" the day after hearing it for the first time then it seems to be a catchy and easy to remember tune. The five year old loves it as well. We had to play it 3 times in a row on the way home from rehearsing for the holiday play. It was wonderful.

Oh, I always thought that the phrase "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me." had to be Urban Legend. And I do see it referenced at snopes. I thought who could possibly not realize what they consider "normal" is actually a translation? After reading the UU Enforcer calling the German version of "Stille Nacht" the messed up version I guess people can be that silly.

Oh well, whatever you sing I hope you sing it with joy in your heart. Happy Holidays everybody!

Disappointed with Gmail

In general I have really been enjoying Gmail, but recently something has happened which really annoys me. Gmail has tagged some e-mails sent from UUpdates as spam. And, of course, they were not. I think a quick search has revealed the messages and now i am working my way through them. If you sent something along feel free to resend, but hopefully i will be responding shortly. If you do not see a response shortly please do send me a note again.

I don't see an option in Gmail to run a filter that says "if the message matches this criteria then under no circumstances put it in the spam filter". Anyone know how this can be done?