procrastinators are the leaders of tomorrow

Man, the internet is a great seducer and excuse for procrastination. As you may have seen under my ‘blog-bling’ bar, I’ve been exploring the SA blogosphere some. I’ve signed up with two local blog aggregators, Afrigator and Amatomu, and now find myself constantly analysing stats and graphs and things. I’ve worked out what ‘link-love’ is, and that my Technocrati ‘authority’ is a massive 4 points! Together with an ever increasing Bloglines subscription list, there is always some new information to distract me from work. (Distracting isn’t very hard, considering ‘work’ for the next week will be transcribing tapes of the Child Rights Symposium sessions from last month.) The whole SA blog scene is rather small, full of mainly white, wealthy people, but if you do want to check it out, have a look at these two aggregators. I filed my blog under ‘religion’ on the Amatomu site, and am already at number 16 in SA! Woohoo! Thanks everyone! (please ignore the fact that it is only16 out of a total of 29 religion blogs! As i said, rather small.) Again, I’m still getting a feel for the blog world here, but it is encouraging to recognise a bunch of the names and blogs on the various lists already.

However, I do wonder what the role this online, niche, religious community can play in SA in seeking to transform the country and the ecclesial institutions.

Once I’m a fluent SA blogger, and have an answer to the above question, all that remains is to develop a healthy time management system to make sure half the day isn’t spent surfing and blogging and procrastinating - as I’m doing now! ;)