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Apologies for being offline and out of touch folks – I’ve been on my annual holiday (!)

But I’m back, refreshed and raring to go and sort out these horrible gremlins that are affecting our new site.

In the past two weeks blogging has been condemned by the Archbishop of Canterbury * and commercialised Now it seems blogs are getting better publicity in thee wake of the London bombings:

“Blog tracking service Technorati said there were more than 1,300 posts about the London blasts by 10.15am yesterday, just an hour after the last explosion. Many expressed concern for those caught up in events, while others speculated on who was responsible. Photo-sharing sights such as Flickr received images from the areas affected.”

Meanwhile I was given a cool presentation by a Vlogger (from video-log) yesterday about the fun and funky world of vlogging.

For two different styles of vlogs take a look at Amanda Congdon’s daily and Duncan’s

* The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, criticised the new web-based media for "paranoid fantasy, self-indulgent nonsense and dangerous bigotry". He described the atmosphere on the world wide web as a free-for-all that was "close to that of unpoliced conversation". In a lecture to media professionals, politicians and church leaders at Lambeth Palace in London Dr Williams wondered whether a balance could be struck between the professionalism of the classical media and the relative disorder of online communication. (ed- sheesh!)