Alright, it seems everyone is doing this these days, but I certainly don’t want to recieve to much flack about this ( so shut it, seriously). A decent amount of my blog viewers are non-HPCers. This is for you.

This is a compound shout-out.

First of all, I have to give some love to Kaycee Smith. For those of you that don’t know, she is one of the interns at HPC in the Elevate program. However, that’s not why she is recieving attention right now. Since she created her blog, she has had around 120 visitors to her site. in the 3 days since I’ve been added to her blogroll, I have consistently had 12 visitors a day that were refered to my site from Kaycee’s blog! You do the math. Anyway, I enjoy her blog, so you should check it out!

This next blogger really caught me off guard. It has quickly earned a place in my top 10 most viewed blogs. He’s got an awesome writing style and you definitely need to check it out! Ladies and Gentleman, let me introduce to you… Rob Gros.

Now this blogger has become one of my best friends in the last year. I love his heart and passion for worship and God. Last night I was able to catch a glimps of him and a friend leading worship at a local youth group and I was blown away. If you are looking for a young guy with some awesome insight on life, please check out Jamie Phillips.

And now, a story.

I am a student in the field of Mass Communication and media at LSU. One of the things that we are constantly having reinforced into us is the fact that we are, in a sense, gate-keepers of information. Whether it is an editor of a newspaper, a producer of a movie, or a book publisher, there is a gate-keeper who decided whether or not to let that information past them. Very few things will ever be heard about on a wide-scale level if there is no media used to push it. This position as gate-keepers is one that is often not as high of a priority in the media realm as it should be.

One of the growing concerns amoung media ethics experts is the issue of bloggers. There is no gate-keeper. No accountability to a large extent. Someone can slander another’s name, and there are no restrictions or consequences.

However, this is not the case in my life. I would like to thank Michael Griffis and JP Brumfield, you guys are my gate-keepers. Not so much in a controling way, but I know you hold a high standard in blogs, and it makes me keep the content up.

I salute you. Griffis, blogger for the people. JP, blog prince of blogorhea.