Catholics Alive and Well in the Blogosphere

As I'm writing this, the Catholic Blog Directory shows there are 1,281 Catholic Blogs. (I haven't counted them myself.) Technorati today identifies 3,759 "blogs about Catholic" (as I was writing this sentence, 4 more "Catholic blogs" were added to the list). On February 11, Anne Helmond mentioned in The Blogherald that Technorati reported tracking 112.8 million blogs while wondered about blog counting itself:

I don’t think the blogosphere is quite mature yet. Technorati currently states it is tracking over 112.8 million blogs, a number which obviously does not include all the 72.82 million Chinese blogs as counted by The China Internet Network Information Center. Blog statistics often concern the English language blogosphere but we should not forget about the millions of other blogs that are not always included in estimations.

How do you find the Right Blog for You? Talk to your friends about blogs they read. Check Catholic websites for mentions of blogs. Search online. Find out what Catholic blogs are popular, as shown by blog awards results. Googling for Catholic Blogs, you might have discovered that nominations are open for the 2008 Catholic Blog Awards - the 5th year of the awards. The two-week nomination period ends Friday, February 29, and voting will be open March 3-17, 2008. All the details are available online, along with a kind of "History of Catholic Blogging" reflected in the lists of each year's winners - which goes all the way back to 2004.



However you find them, it's important to read the blogs, and read about the blogger. Find what you like, what engages you, what you get passionate about. Haven't found that yet? Keep looking...or better yet, think about adding your voice to the online conversation by posting comments on the blogs - or starting your own.