http://www.stumbleupon.com is pretty good.

I've been hoping someone would come up with a Christian Digg for a while now. So far I haven't found one. I took a look at gospelshout.com and its dominated by news articles that don't have anything to do with Christianity. Too bad.

GospelShout.com is owned by a friend of mine, and is still in the 'beta' stage. Apparently, all articles listed are pulled from RSS feeds from numerous Christian sites. As soon as a few contributors could be found, there won't be any more need for RSS feeds to be used /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />.

I'd love to see a Digg-like Christian site, if Gospel Shout can pull it off - great, it definately needs more work there though. Moving in the right direction - I'll have to keep it on my radar.

Hi all! GospelShout is my site. It is not technically done, but your right, it needs much work.
I need human contributions from Christians, and I need good reliable moderators.
Also I need incentives for people to post and use the site.

Currently, all the news is coming from multiple RSS feeds from Christian Sites. But even then some of the news and stories I would rather not be on the site. It is automatically imported for now. Because there is much more Christian News out there, and less faith sites, its pulling more of that in. I need good posts on the site and people to start using it.

Stories out of here would be great contributions to the site.

Any suggestions for the site also?

John,

I'd be happy to discuss some things with you. Feel free to email me, PM me or the best way to get ahold of me is via IM.

James

I would like to see a Technology and a sports section on http://www.gospelshout.com/

So is there any .NET software that can be like digg?
I know pligg is PHP and is good, but its PHP

OtherJohn,

How interesting of you to bring that up. It just so happens that today I launched http://www.digitalministry.info, which is a blog focused around ministry and how it can be accomplished using the net. I'm seeking to equip, educate, and enable people for digital ministry. Don't know if it exactly fits in with your site, though...

Hi Kenaniah, welcome to the ministry tech blog club. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Looks like you're off to a good start. I look forward to reading more of your articles.

Digg is a Web 2.0, user-generated, user-ranked news site with articles from lots of sites and authors. Quite different from what you're doing.

In addition to GospelShout, Blogs4God is another Digg-like Christian site focusing on Christian blog articles. I would encourage anyone who has a blog to submit their articles to both of these sites and participate in the voting/discussion.

For more information about them, you can read this article:
http://blog.ourchurch.com/2007/05/15/blogs...ian-news-sites/

- Paul

Paul,

Thanks for the link...

I read through the article and it certainly looks like a very interesting idea. I'm not quite at the point where I can start posting content, but I will bookmark with the hopes of possibly getting involved in the near future.

All the best!

you can check out blessedit.com. it's more than just social bookmarking from a Christian perspective. it also includes streaming music videos, sermons, inspirational clips and well as an online church directory.

http://blessedit.com
http://video.blessedit.com

Hi, I'm new here, but I've been working on a tagging site called CrossCheckr.com.

We're working on building up our user base this month, by asking bloggers to include our External Voting button for a 30-day trial, to test how much additional traffic we can generate for their sites.

Chazm

I am starting up a new site called News Over Load. http://www.newsoverload.com/pligg. I hope to make it into a digg site for christians. I got it going this weekend and I dont want to fill it up with auto rss feeds. Please stop by and let me know how you like the site.

Make some posts and comment on others. If you have a site that has how to's and such please feel free to submit them for others to see.

Thanks

May I just put in a comment that is somewhat related?? This is not directed at any individual who posted above, but at a pattern I've observed here at CWM and elsewhere on the web.

I think it's wonderful that Christians want to establish a presence on the Internet, I think this is terribly important. It's also good to have value-driven alternatives sometimes. however... how many Christian web developers are creating little weensy Christian enclaves that will never grow that big because there are so many of them they have the effects of

1) they never make it because their # of participants is so small;
2) 1) is partly because they were started by an individual and not a group;
3) they actually have a fragmented impact because the Christians using whatever purpose they are for have so many options to choose from, i.e. sites like this, the impact of *their* participation and membership is fragmented also... a diluted effect all 'round.
4) they aren't promoted very well, and no one knows about them

So.... what am I getting at?

How many people creating Christian this and Christian that websites have made an attempt to find and take part in a similar site that's already there? Including signing up to help that site's creator? Why start another one? For example, how many Christian family-friendly link directories are there? How many have been started (including domains bought up and used, and then ending up with a "there used to be a site here but now there isn't" hosting pages) and then fail?

What about banding together (possibly jumping off from CWM as a gathering place), a group of you to confab and share ideas and start out with a bigger base than (1) one person?? Or might it not be better to take part in a one or two of the sites already linked to in earlier posts, such as gospelshout? If it doesn't have all the features you're thinking of, why not contact the owner and discuss this before starting another Christian-digg-like-site? What would happen if each person reading this post visited gospelshout (or other already present on the web Christian site) every two weeks and spent 5 minutes there, taking part? How did Digg make it? How can we replicate that, within the expanded network of Christians? (I am not saying gospelshout should be the one, but it *is* already established).

Please note I am *not* saying there should only be one Christian copy of a secular type of site. Obviously more than one is fine, but not gobs and gobs of "more than one"s... I realize working together such as in the above paragaraph would be harder to do than it was for me to type. You might not have the same ideas. You might not have the same level of skillsets. You don't live near one another. Someone has to be in charge. Such a thing would also need a certain amount of time to be done right. 3-4 emails going around is not enough to settle a firm understanding of what is needed, how it should look, necessary programming and coding foundation, etc.

But I'm suggesting this for the same reason I keep the number of forums I sign up for very low. It's like donating to charities. $5 to 3 charities and $10 to 4 others ends up using significantly more dollars in administrative costs, and having a significantly lower impact on need, than it would if you had given $55 to just one.

The same pattern happened after Katrina. many people stepped forward to create sites for people to post on, to find their pets and relatives, etc. However, this divided the effectiveness, and forced people to check MANY sites. It would have been far better for such information to be concentrated (and therefore, indexed and easily accessible) in one or two places. The intent was good, the effect was less helpful than it seemed.

So to sum up, before we start something new, realizing that the web is already so crowded with many little web ventures, ask ourselves this question: is what I'm proposing/starting needed? Or would my energy be better contributed elsewhere, even though I wouldn't be in charge and therefore, taking a lesser role? This is all about, really, a stewardship of the web and of our own time/talents/energy.

I do agree with you, I did not want to start out by doing an adventure by myself. I started by going out to look at the different sites and activily submiting to them for weeks - even a couple of months on 2. I felt that the tech side of things was going no where - that I was the only person doing links and commentting and approving stories. I became moderator on a couple in the tech areas because I was, I guess the only one?

I would love to get a few people on board and do it right. active members are what is needed to get a Digg site up and running. I want to create/assist in getting a site going for me as a christian. I really like digg I dont like alot of the articles that see there and some of the comments also.

I did do some homework on the subject and digg started with 5 guys activily submitting stories and we know how this has turned out.

I would be willing to help get a community going - having something that is chrisian oriented and techy (for me) would be cool.

How about a CWM pligg - I will help out! I do believe that if you do want it to work that you need to stick with it.

thanks

http://www.newsoverload.com

It sounds as if you have a good perspective... but, gospelshout is based on pligg. As is blessedit, also linked above. The number of votes for the top stories of the year at each: 21 and 19. So, obviously they are still needing a lot more members to be really making it.

I mean this seriously and thoughtfully, and not critically of you at all:

What would be different about what you would do? and if a problem at other digg-like Christian sites you took part in (and it sounds as if you made a really good effort at one of them, for sure) is low participation, how does another Christian digg-like site help this? (see #3 in my first post) And how would yours avoid the same problem?

I am not into Digg and so not really looking for or that interested in a Christian digg site. I am a member at gospelshout but don't take part very much as this whole area is not a high priority for me. I would add though that one thing that makes it a lot less likely that I'll add links to it is that there is no easy way to do it without visiting the site. Digg has a Firefox extension that makes this easier.

A side note; some people might say, too, that what Christians should do is be dynamic and frequent participants at Digg, so that a Christian worldview has some influence over the results there.

Check out http://www.godsurfer.com/

It is growing everyday.

And yes, it is my journey that God has allowed me to be a part of.

I agree the Christian Internet community seems to be very disjointed. There is no central hub (minus the major corporate Christian sites). Hopefully, GODSurfer.com (and sites like it) can be a central hub for Christian content.

Thanks and God Bless

Jeff
http://www.godsurfer.com
Bringing God to your ONLINE Life!

There is also Gospel Scoop. This site is still pretty new but coming along very well. It has a pretty good following already and has some good content. It is my favorite "Christian Digg" website. I have been submitting links to it regularly for a couple of weeks now. They also have a facebook group. The site owner is working really hard to release new features. He just released including user pictures on posts and comments.

It's getting contributors that's the issue.

http://news.sensusdivinitatis.com

Reformed theology, philosophy, culture, and church planting news. Ranked by the readers.

It's in beta (as in, released a few weeks ago). PM me if you'd like an invite.