I do read David Black’s blog, although there is still no RSS feed available. This means I have to check the site regularly rather than read it via Bloglines. Still, I find it’s worth the bother.

Anyway, the thing is that yesterday morning he pointed to an interesting blog article on The Spiritual Perils of Blogging. In it, David W. Opderbeck talks about what he considers the “key problem areas for Christian bloggers”, i.e.,

Self Aggrandizement
Envy
Argumentativeness / Competitiveness
Substituting / Neglecting Physical Community
Disaggregating Theory and Praxis
Ghettoizing Dissenting Voices
Confusing Popularity with Substance
Reverting to the Mean

I think he’s only developed the first item so far, but I could not avoid thinking how much of what he says is relevant to bibliobloggers in general (and me in particular). Hmm… food for thought.

Over at CMUG, David Lang has posted an article in which he comments on the results of the recent Bible Software Survey. Very interesting, as usual.

Madrid, March 11, 2004. We will never forget!

Among the recent releases in the growing Bible software market for handhelds we can find the following titles:

GMPSoft announces the availability of a new Palm Bible Bundle (NRSV/Oxford/Images), and the Complete Jewish Bible.

Laridian has released the King James Version Bible with Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance for use with PocketBible.

OliveTree Bible Software has added the New International Version to its current offer of Bible texts.

Logos has been running a Pre-Publication Specials program for quite some time. A new pre-pub program, called Community Pricing, has now been launched. In their own words:

If it costs $4,000 to produce an electronic edition of a book, the costs can be covered by 4 people paying $1,000 each or by 1,000 people paying $4 each. The more likely scenario, though, is that no one wants to pay $1,000 and there aren’t 1,000 people interested in the title, even at $4. But there may be 200 people who would pay $20 each.

Community Pricing is about finding the lowest price that covers the production costs.

This means that through this kind of bidding auction users of the Libronix DLS can actually get involved in the decision-making process of what gets published and at what price. According to the company, this program is specifically intended for public domain and out-of-print works. Current bids can be found here.

Incidentally, there are RSS feeds available for both of these pre-publication programs.