Next week I am doing a learning day at Uniting College, Adelaide, South Australia. Thanks to Dr Steve Taylor, Director of Missiology, for inviting me over. You might remember Steve for his EmergentKiwi blog or his excellent book The Out of Bounds Church?: Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change.…
Read MoreI dont need a new Mac
I know tomorrow’s launch of the new Mac and Macbook Pro will have a lot of people ooohhing and aaahhhing but the fact is, my Mac is still rocking after nearly 2 years and I dont intend to replace it. Even if I had the money to do it. Unless there was a spectacular reason…
Read MoreGoogle Webmaster Tools: Search Results from each country
Google webmaster tools now has a feature that lets you see what google searches people did to find your site FROM EACH COUNTRY! I had no idea they were so different. Its really worth a look. Here are my number one search queries in which my site appeared: USA – “andrew jones” UK – “habbohotel…
Read MoreInternet “Smelly Vision” by 2015
News story says Korean tech experts predict computers will transmit scent through the internet by 2015. This will be very good news for the alt. worship communities and cyberchurches. Maybe even bloggers. Expect my recipes to have accompanying smells. I wonder how others will use it? Coffee smells for emerging church conversations? Incense for cyberchurch…
Read MoreWiki Words
– Wired’s Big Question Wiki needs some people to help fill in the blanks to BIG questions like: Where is the Holy Grail? – SmartBibleWiki.com is under development, courtesy of the omnipresent Dr Andy Jackson of SmartChristian who has the skinny; “SmartBibleWiki.com will be an open-source website dedicated to the interpretation of each book of…
Read MoreLeith Anderson in the Search Engines
Mark Driscoll’s latest blog post on how churches should respond to pastoral crises of falling leaders (ie . . Haggard) has made me think about how churches and their web sites should also be geared to BLESS their rising leaders (ie . . . Anderson). Yesterday I did a search for NAE Interim President Leith…
Read MoreBloglings, meet your Maker
I liked the title of this blog post about Tim Berners Lee so much i just had to say it out loud and repost the picture of Sir Tim. i also just found Tim’s book for £2 and ordered it. Thanks to Gareth of View From The Potting Shed. Technorati Tags: blog, web 2.0
Read MoreOct 26: Orkney Island’s Firefox 2.0 Party
Firefox 2.0 release party. 4pm, Oct 26th. My place. Bring your notebook. WIFI provided and tea or coffee. We will dedicate this new browser to the Creator to be used for creativity, justice and happiness. Get invited here. Technorati Tags: blog, web 2.0
Read MoreContribute 4 has blog capabilities
Adobe’s Contribute 4 sounds impressive with the blogging capability . . . but i am leaning towards online solutions like Flock browser. And i still cant beat ecto for blogging control and offline writing. Technorati Tags: blog, web 2.0
Read MoreSwarm released by Digg Labs
Swarm: A great Web 2.0 info-experience and i already have an account. All kinds of news and info popping up on the screen in the same way my brain works . . . but . . . no RELIGION news! Come on, we are waiting . . . Technorati Tags: tech, web 2.0
Read MoreHave WiFi, Will Travel
Well I dont have one, yet. But since many conference centers don’t have a Wifi connection, like the one i have just come from last week, I could always bring my own along. The Kyocera KR1 Mobile Router might be just the ticket. Laughing Squid has roadtested it and BoingBoing approves but it looks like…
Read MoreMacBook is here
The MacBook. Its here. Finally. And its exactly as predicted by MacRumors and other sources. The new MacBook replaces the ibook – of which i have had two. It comes in white or the more expensive, slightly faster, slightly bigger 80 Gig HD in the wicked color BLACK, which seems better looking but i am…
Read MoreVizrea: Phone to Blog Software
Vizrea was “unstealthed” today and makes a splash on the Seattle Times. From its humble beginnings in the basement of our nu-monastic-community in Prague (the Giant Peach) to the computer screens and fancy Symbian-based phones of the world, Jarda’s software, which became a joint Czech-USA project, has eventually been released. I am very connected to…
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