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Utter Muttering (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Russell Shaw has an excellent article at Inside Catholic on clericalism in the Church. The reason it's good is that it doesn't take just one side or the other but explores it and, as one could expect, finds that the truth is "in the middle". One of my favorite quotes is this: Not only that, one-dimensional emphasis in official Church circles on "lay ministry" is at the expense of time and energy that...
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Charlotte was Both (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Over at Inside Catholic, Russell Shaw has an article about clericalism. The indication is that it is the first of many, which is good, because the article doesn't exactly confront clericalism directly, but does an end run via the growth of ecclesial lay ministry. Clericalism, however, is not an affirmation of these sacred realities but a [...]
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The Curt Jester (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Russell Shaw writes an absolutely great article on clericalism at Inside Catholic. This is the first of a multi part...
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Happy Catholic (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
A good article from Russell Shaw about the problem of clericalism in the Church . He does define it partway into the article, but for those who, like me, haven't got a clue I will provide the definition that broke the article open for me: Main Entry: cler·i·cal·ism Pronunciation: \ˈkler-i-kə-ˌli-zəm, ˈkle-ri-\ Function: noun Date: 1864 : a policy of maintaining or increasing the power...
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Dad29 (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Russell Shaw defines it neatly. “By clericalism I mean an elitist mindset, together with structures and patterns of behavior corresponding to it, which takes it for granted that clerics – in the Catholic context, mainly bishops and priests – are intrinsically superior to the other members of the Church and deserve automatic deference. Passivity and dependence are the laity’s lot.” It...
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Avatar Briefs (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
"In March, 60-year-old Russell Shaw, a prolific US blogger on technology subjects, had a fatal heart attack. In December, another American technology blogger, Marc Orchant, also had a heart attack and died, aged 50. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack the same month. There is no official recognition of death by blogging and the premature demise of two people does not qualify...
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Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
It started earlier this week with a piece in the New York Times titled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop. Highlights: Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In [...]
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Know More Media - Education (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
I can find blog material almost anywhere. That's a problem. Trying to make a living at this blogging thing has me looking everywhere and always. That's the problem. I can think of 5 reasons to not be a blogger, or to not try to make a living at it. 1. Russell Shaw - a prolific blogger on technology died from a heart attack while covering something in San Jose, my neck of the woods. He...
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GJ (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Russell Shaw was a prolific blogger on technology subjects. I say "was" because, sadly, Roger died of a heart attack a few weeks ago at the age of 60. Marc Orchant , a blogger with the publishing giants ZDNet also passed away recently at just 50 years old, also from a heart attack. The similarity between these two men and their untimely deaths has not passed the mainstream media unnoticed....
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Truemors (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Matt Richtel writes in the New York Times about how the piecemeal blogging that drives the Internet’s 24/7 news cycle is killing bloggers, making them fat, and even disrupting their sleep patterns. Richtel cites the recent deaths of bloggers Russell Shaw and Marc Orchant from heart attacks as evidence that bloggers are working too hard [...]
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Project Heavy Traffic (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
There was a report in our local newspaper about deaths of two bloggers which shocked me.This news brings me down to earth in the midst of my chasing for search engine ranking and web traffic numbers. Weeks ago, two technology bloggers- Mr Russell Shaw and Mr Marc Orchant died of heart related problem. Many professional bloggers were pressured to write and come up with fresh content to...
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Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The deaths of two American bloggers has been blamed partly on the amount of time they spent updating their blogs and dealing with other blog-related matters: “Fatal heart attacks suffered by Russell Shaw, 60, and Marc Orchant, 50 - two prolific technology bloggers - as well as the case of another, Om Malik, 41, who survived [...]
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John Chow dot Com (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
OK, the headline is a bit on the sensational side but that’s what this NY Times story is implying. The writer, Matt Richtel, tells the story of two recent deaths that was apparently caused by too much blogging. Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger [...]
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Performancing (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
A frightening NY Times article [free reg. possibly req'd] talks about the health problems of some well known bloggers. Actually, I'm shocked to find that two bloggers in the VoIP technology niche passed away recently - Russell Shaw in mid-March and Marc Orchant in December. RIP Russell and Marc. Om Malik, whom many of you might know more readily, apparently beat a heart attack...
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Tom Foremski: IMHO (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Matt Richtel’s New York Times article about the heavy stress of making a living as a blogger is not about the blogger life at all. It is about the life of a freelance journalist, which often sits at the bottom a very shallow barrel in terms of journalist compensation. Russell Shaw, our much missed colleague on [...]
