The October rankings for the top Bible Blogs are in and Dr. Jim’s Thinking Shop has made it into the Ten Ten at number 8!
Whoot!
Last month I was #16, and before that 69, or thereabouts.
The rankings are determined by Alexa, which works by… oh hell, I haven’t a clue, but I suspect Jim West and Joel Watts have shares in the company.
Here is the breakdown of the top 10 according to Ale
| Rank | Prev. | + / - | Blogger | Blog Name | Alexa Ranking |
| 1 | 1 | - | Jim West | Jim West | 70,585 |
| 2 | 2 | - | Joel L. Watts | Church of Jesus Christ, The | 94,324 |
| 3 | 3 | - | Matt Dabbs | Kingdom Living | 226,058 |
| 4 | 36 | 32 | Jeremy Thompson | Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog | 239,040 |
| 5 | 5 | - | Mark Goodacre | NT Blog | 266,552 |
| 6 | 20 | 14 | Ferrell Jenkins | Ferrell’s Travel Blog | 269,277 |
| 7 | 15 | 8 | John Hobbins | Ancient Hebrew Poetry | 279,443 |
| 8 | 16 | 8 | Jim Linville | Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room | 280,504 |
| 9 | 4 | -5 | Jeff Oien | Scripture Zealot | 285,934 |
| 10 | 28 | 18 | Stephen Smuts | Biblical Paths | 291,969 |
I feel like the token heathen, but what the heck?
SO, LET’S CELEBRATE!
I haven’t posted a Slinky Jazz Babe on this blog for ages. I when ever my Technorati rank jumped I would celebrate by encouraging all my readers to buy all the albums of one of my favourite jazz vocalists. Technorati has been gibbeled and gefucked for weeks now, so I ignore it. But now I have a new reason to party.
Amanda Martinez is an award winning Latin Jazz singer from Toronto (of Mexican and S. African ancestry). She is also very brainy. Here is a bit from her bio:
Although she spent her school years studying classical piano and ballet, Amanda obtained an undergraduate degree in biology and later completed her master’s degree in international business. It was only after her first year as associate director of finance at one of Canada’s leading banks that she made the decision to pursue music professionally. Over the last 3 years (2007-2009) Amanda was nominated Latin Jazz Artist of the Year at Canada’s National Jazz Awards. Her debut album “Sola” won Best World Music, selling over 6000 copies and becoming Toronto’s top selling indie release.
She has a new album out too, but I haven’t seen it in the shops yet (not that there are many music shops in Lethbridge in which to see it… Just a little HMV with not a great collection of Jazz at all, and Fudger Shop which is even worse.
November 1, 2009 at 12:09 pm
token pagan… i love it.
November 1, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Congratulations. We love your work. And you’ve had a meteoric rise since you were a 69er.
November 2, 2009 at 8:39 am
Congratulations, Dr. Jim! I was a little surprised by the results: according to wordpress I more than doubled the hits I had in the previous month and I fell 21 places on Biblioblogs. What was it Mark Twain said about “lies, damn lies, and statistics”? Call it sour grapes in my case!
November 2, 2009 at 9:13 am
What’s the secret of your success? Oh, I know, babes and cats.
November 2, 2009 at 9:32 am
in fact his success is based on only one criterion: he’s interesting.
November 2, 2009 at 11:58 am
I suspect the babes have something to do with it…
November 2, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I just put a barcode on her new disc this morning, but I can’t send it out to the library branch that owns it until sometime next week. Stupid new library catalogue system thing has our work all halted right now while we wait for the company to sort out our stuff. What a hassle.
November 2, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Secret of success, utterly insane wit, clearly articulated and definite opinions, total fairness without ever offending any particular social sub group. And cats. Even Jimbo can’t resist them
November 2, 2009 at 5:15 pm
right- except for the cats bit.
November 3, 2009 at 1:57 pm
dude- on another matter altogether…
http://kevinscull.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/biblical-studies-carnival-xlvii/
you’re not even mentioned in passing!!!!! i know, i was shocked too!
November 3, 2009 at 2:10 pm
yeah and that was a shocking example of bad taste in which posts were deemed to be ‘interesting’
November 3, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I know! I self-nominated 3 of my posts, too, including the initial announcement of the secular biblical studies thing. I guess that’s not important.
Oh well.
November 3, 2009 at 3:43 pm
gasp! lazy, dull and uninteresting with no sense of imagination, creativity, the insane or the funny or what is of fundamental importance to academia and scholarship.