Seven Deadly Sins

Is all over the news by now, the "Seven Deadly Sins" are supposedly going to change. Let me remind you that Pope Gregory I was the first to name the "seven deadly sins": Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia. 15 centuries after, it seems that the Vatican now wants to change from this seven sins for others. These are "human sins": people will allways have the tendency to these things.

Now, despite a lot of newspapers and websites telling that Vatican wants to change the deadly sins, that is far from truth. If you read them all and cross-reference stories, you'll see that the only thing that happened is that the Vatican considers "new stuff" of sins: but the "list of sins" is infinite, we're not talking about "deadly sins" here.

News should be that the Vatican consider "polluting, genetic engeneering, being obscenely rich, taking drugs, carrying out experiments on humans, abortion, causing social injustice and pedophilia" sins, not that they're ditching the old "deadly sins" list.

Citing References in Blog Posts

This might have a special interest for journalists and bloggers out there: Russell Coker wrote an excellent piece [http://tinyurl.com/256r6x] about the transposition of news and articles writing from the old media to the new media, particularly on how bloggers can and why they should cite their sources (also a little about how to do it in emails).

The only thing I do not agree in his article is when he recommends blog folding in big articles: I've already wrote about why I disagree with it in the past [http://tinyurl.com/yw7soz].

As the author himself, I also realized that there is a lot more stuff I can enhance in my blogging style, and I'll try to do so.