Dear Steve Jobs, Hi there. I’m a big fan — of your products, your business, and, well, you too — love the mock turtle necks. I have a conundrum, and I hope you can help me. I understand that you generally keep product information tip-top secret. I understand this probably helps you make money and [...]
Cutting the Automatic Crosspost: The Different Genre of Facebook and Blogging
As technology changes, Facebook continues to grow and blogs seem in somewhat of a decline. You’ll hear no worries from this blogger — that’s the point, technology and social media changes. That’s why it’s fun and works so well. Related to all this, though, I am strongly considering disconnecting my blog from my facebook page. [...]
Virtual Choir, Real Art, What Next?
Ok, this is pretty darn cool. The YouTube video below is a virtual choir singing Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque. “Wait, what’s a ‘Virtual Choir’?” you ask? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of it before since, with this piece, Whitacre is breaking new ground. You have to watch the video to really get it, [...]
How Twitter Makes Me a Better Pastor
As a new 3/4 time rural pastor, I’m surprised to find that Twitter is a hugely important ministry tool for me. Without it, I’d be a much poorer pastor and would feel considerably less connected to supportive colleagues. Before I began my position four months ago, I never would have guessed how helpful — to [...]
We three rings of Google are, bearing phones news travels a far
Forgive some jumping from topic to topic in this post, but it’s how my mind is working at the moment. It starts with the Google Phone, moves to Nicolas Kristof, and ends with Christmas. Here goes nothing. Ok, so if you’ve seen the tech blogs, no scratch that, if you’ve seen any news lately you [...]
This is cool: "Back to the Land"
I’m keeping my blogging to a minimum this Thanksgiving week but I couldn’t help but enjoy the following piece in today’s NY Times. The form is what really struck me, but the content is great too. I don’t know what to call it — a Op-Ed photo journal essay article? The piece is entitled “Back to [...]
Media Culture Moment
In the old world, way back when I was a kid, TV networks made the content that drove our lives. In some ways that’s still the case, but with web 2.0 (or 3.0 or whatever) more and more often billionaires are beaten by the little guy. With YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and Twitter, a simple clip [...]
Check Out These Sites
A few recommendations from around the web. First, The God Complex, an internet radio show hosted by Bruce Reyes-Chow and Carol Howard Merritt. Bruce and Carol run a fun show, but their guests are just fascinating. You can listen live and chat or call in questions, or pod cast it and listen on long runs (another [...]
Twittiquette; you are now warned
You may have heard last week — maybe not on Twitter — that a recent study found that 40% of Twitter tweets are “pointless babble.” According to the study, conversational messages account for 32% of tweets, and tweets with pass-along value scored a whopping 6%. Close behind, were tweets of shameless self-promotion. (This all according [...]
