Official Presbyterian Blogging.  Or is that Blogging Presbyterian Official?

The Presbyterian News Service is reporting that Linda Valentine, the Executive Director of the General Assembly Council, is blogging her three nation Asia trip.  As the article says:

The article is only three paragraphs long but this blog is a milestone in PC(USA) communications, using the “New Media.”  As of this writing there are four entries from Linda Valentine about the trip.

What I found more interesting was the apparent “back story” (sorry, I’m from the LA area) to the blog.  If you go to the top level of the blog it appears that the PC(USA) started one on TypePad ( www.presbyterian.typepad.com) about a year ago but it appears that it never got past three entries on Sept. 5 and Sept. 11, 2006.  I don’t know what else is buried in subdirectories like Linda’s is, but subscribing to the top level feed did not get me Linda’s rss feed.  Have to do that through Linda’s page.

I am curious to see if this blog continues once Ms. Valentine’s trip is over or if the trend spreads.  And I would hope that entries would not be too “scripted” by the corporate image people and lacking candid comments or written for the leaders by staff writers.