I've posted a copy of my paper for the 2005 SBL conference in Philadelphia. I'm presenting in the CARG (Computer Assisted Research Group). The paper has to do with "biblioblogging". My subject is this web site, PastoralEpistles.com. I've used it to experiment with things I see as shortcomings with existing blog software. The paper examines those shortcomings and the approach of PastoralEpistles.com in addressing them.

Session Info:

• S20-12, Computer Assisted Research Section
• Sunday, November 20. 9:00-11:00 AM

Paper Title: Biblioblog Problems and Solutions: PastoralEpistles.com as a Sandbox.

Biblioblogs have come to serve a valuable role in the academic community: they disseminate information throughout the academy while serving to humanize their authors. But the information produced by bibliobloggers, while searchable via Google and able to be displayed upon request, is locked in an environment that stores content as a sort of lowest common denominator. Salient bits of information, ranging from discussions of particular Biblical passages to impromptu book reviews, are unable to be easily retrieved unless one happens to fortuitously stumble upon them. Most biblioblog content is first-rate, but the blogging software that typically generates and archives the content could be better. This paper further defines some of these “lowest common denominator” problems and explores methodology used by PastoralEpistles.com to address them.

You may download the paper. I won't be reading it word-for-word at the session; but it will serve as my basic outline and content guide. If you link to it from your own blog please use the trackback functionality and post a trackback so that other folks (myself included) will be aware of any further discussion that may occur. Otherwise, as always, feel free to use the comments on this post.