2011-05-04 16:41:20

Insights from the Blogosphere


It was the first ever meeting of its type held in the Vatican. The participants were 150 mostly Catholic bloggers who had come from all over the world to attend a meeting this week for bloggers organised jointly by the Pontifical Councils for Culture and for Social Communications.
But what was the feedback from this meeting from the bloggers themselves and how do they see the future of blogging evolving? To find out more about their hopes and concerns, Susy Hodges spoke in turn to Carol Glatz, correspondent and blogger for Catholic News Service, and Lisa Hendey, a housewife from California, who's founder and editor of the blog: Catholicmom.com

Glatz says one of the concerns raised at the meeting by both the bloggers and Father Lombardi (the Vatican spokesman) was the sometimes heated nature of the exchanges on blogging sites: "it's very easy for an (overbig) ego to get in the way... and it's easy to get caught up in the emotions" ... "but it's not very Christian." She said Father Lombardi urged the bloggers to be more charitable and remember that their job is "being at the service of the Church, at the service of others."

Asked about the rewards of blogging, Hendey says: "It's really the sense of community, of a shared sense of purpose and the drive to share our faith in this way, to be a family together, journeying towards Christ." When it comes to how blogging will evolve in the future, Hendey believes (like Glatz) that the "technology related to Twitter and Facebook is already impacting on blogging which means "a trend towards micro-blogging" with much shorter messages than traditional blogs.

Listen to this report by Susy Hodges: RealAudioMP3










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