Mmm... Delicious Christians

I got a comment from Neil that really encouraged me. He is working on finding and connecting "Delicious Christians" - christians that tag. His note was simple - let me know your thoughts about synergies. I posted back a few rough thoughts and suggested that we blog about it back and forth.

First my goal and I believe Neil's too is to support the body of believers in the online arena.
So building up a network's of Christians such as Delicious Christians and venue's such as Bibleicious are just ways of making opportunities. Opportunities for the Holy Spirit to do what He wants through the lives and thoughts of believers.

Christains who Tag - I'm one and DeliciousChristians is a whole network of them. If you look at my posts, you'll notice that I most often tag for work and there are a lot of links to php and web development topics, things that are not necessarily Christain but a big part of my life. Looking at the overall list I see a strong general bent to spiritual topics with the geek sprinkled in.

What I don't see - myself included are a ton of bible tags. I think this is because as much as we talk about the importance of scripture, in reality it's not the lens that we use to view the world. The challenge I issue to Delicious Christians is simple, try relating everything you view online to scripture and share with us some of those 'links' and see how it changes you and changes others.

Looking at Bibleicious in it's current form things are very impersonal - it's easy to find a verse but not to find one that has a current comment, or get a feeds of the latests commentaries/links. Looking over the path to beta, I had some plans to help address those weaknesses. It appears to me that Delicious Christains solves some of those issues for me.

• Recruit 20-50 regular users/community members who are intentionally tagging links

See my Challenge above and consider yourself hereby recruited ;) But seriously, I see Delicious Christains - those early adopters of tagging, to be the core group. Sharing our interaction with the God of Scripture could (should?) be one of the main ways that we hang out, interact, and learn from each other. Bibleicious should make it fun

We need Profiles, -

• User home pages - link to blog, list of bible tags, personal info etc.
• List of Users - link to homepages, etc

We need a full tag cloud, -

Delicious Christians is currently a lists of delicious posts by dates (with links by poster). Bibleicious is a list of delicious posts indexed by bible verse

• We need a cloud that aggregates all of the tags used by Delicious Christains and/or used in conjunction with the bible verse tags

We need a standard -

• Okay this is semi-optional but I've proposed a tagging standard for bible verses Eventually, I hope to get more sophisticated and add folksonomy equivalents. This is what I'm using to drive Bibleicious and I can think of a dozen other reasons why this is a good thing.

What do you think Neil? I want to build the profiles, clouds, and standard that should facilitate all kinds of interactions and feeds. I want those to be sharable (stored on delicious, available via rss,atom,javascript badge, etc.) between bibleicious.com, deliciouschristians.com, and the individuals and their blogs that make up our community.

What do you guys think. If you aren't already a Delicious Christain, you should be. Get saved if you need to and then go bug Neil on his blog or add Indychristian to your network in delicious.