Finally, I did it! What: I added a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools today for my Typepad based blog. I splashed out and bought Rage SiteMap Automator for $30. Its a bit more spendy but its made for Mac, only a week old, works great, and unlike those horrible PC programs for sitemap generation, it…
Read MoreLife Cycle of a Blog Post
Wired points to the life-cycle of a blog post. Very cool! HT: Matthew Labels Technorati Tags: blog
Read MoreWebsites and golf clubs
Tony Whittaker of Internet Evangelism Day has a great parable called A Tale of Two Golf Clubs which explains why you cant drag an old media mind into the new media world without some serious rethinking. They are also offering to help make your church website more effective with some diagnostic tools like this self-assessment…
Read MoreHappy Hour: Virtual Monastery, House Churches, Emerging Church UK and USA, and Emerging Church Bloggers/Christianity 2.0
My Happy Hour is this coming Monday, 12th November at 5pm GMT (London time) on Shapevine.com. That’s midday in New York. Come with questions for my very special guests who are turning up through video cam. They include: Bob Beltz, an author of numerous books and creator of the world’s first virtual monastery. He is…
Read MoreGodblogcon
Godblogcon is starting today in Las Vegas. Its a conference for Christian bloggers that started in California. I have never been but have tried twice to get there. Maybe next year. The cool thing this year is that its happening in the same venue as Blog World Expo. Pajama Party tonight and Weblog Awards. Dang.…
Read MoreThe Blogging Church, by Brian Bailey
Book Review – The Blogging Church: Sharing the Story of Your Church Through Blogs, by Brian Bailey with Terry Storch Its a book for big church pastors to encourage them to blog. Leadership Network was behind it and the voices of Andy Stanley, Mark Driscoll and others are the prominent ones encouraging pastors to increase…
Read MoreBlog: Understanding the Information Reformation, by Hugh Hewitt
Book Review – Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation thats Changing Your World, by Hugh Hewitt. Subheading is “Why you must know how the BLOGOSPHERE is smashing the OLD MEDIA MONOPOLY and giving individuals power in the marketplace of ideas. I bought this book last year and was a little disappointed with it so i have…
Read MoreBlogger’s Choice Awards
As you know, this blog was nominated for two awards in the Bloggers Choice Awards. The Best Religion Blog and the Best Blog of All Time. And the winners were . . . NOT tallskinnykiwi.com. I had a lot of votes for Best Religion Blog and got a few votes for Best Blog of All…
Read MoreBlogRush Phase 2
BlogRush roll out phase 2 of their system today – the one I told you about in September. Its a nice system and they are doing a great job. I really like the fact that i can view exactly how many people read each post of mine, as well as how many came through BlogRush…
Read MoreDean Peters and Blog Jordan
Mean Dean Peters, of the infamous HealYourChurch and Blogs4God, arrives in Jordan today and starts ‘histoblogging’ [my word] his way around. He has created a WIKI called the BlogJordan Wiki for images and thoughts and whatever related to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Dean says in an email this morning that I might be interested…
Read MoreWikiklesia: The world’s first self-perpetuating nomadic business model?
“Wikiklesia may be the world’s first self-perpetuating nomadic business model – raising money for charities – giving voice to emerging writers and artists – generating a continuous stream of new books covering all manner of relevant topics. Nobody remains in control. There is no board of directors. The franchise changes hands as quickly as new…
Read MoreBlog Comments and Graffiti from a German toilet
I was reading the graffiti on the toilet wall at Frankfurt Hahn airport, where we spent last night on the hard floor, being interrogated all night by bright lights. And as i was reading the graffiti i was thinking how similar to the blogosphere. Someone writes a thought and then people respond underneath with their…
Read MoreCleaker 2.0 for WordPress
I have said this before. Maybe you cant stomach the emerging church but you will still end up using their software. I use it when i can because i like to keep things in the family. Cleave (Adam Cleaveland) has a wicked cool wordpress 2.0 template that i just downloaded for one of my blogs.…
Read MoreChristian Blogging Survey [Updated]
Cory Miller at Church Communications Pro has released the findings of the 2007 Christian Blogger Survey. Full report here. I am re-posting this with the list of participants and some of Cory’s findings: “Here are some snapshots of the survey: * Total Number of Blogs In Survey: 367 blogs * Most Popular Blogging Platform: Blogger…
Read MoreZpeech: New web app
Tim Rohrer tells me that he and some friends just created a killer Web 2.0 app called Zpeech (beta) and is wondering if we can experiment with it here. Zpeech means you can comment on my actual site right here at www.zpeech.com/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi or use the address for commenting on any other website in the same…
Read MoreTowards a Mixed Economy of Old and New Media
Interesting discussion at DAVOS 2007 regarding how MSN and new media [bloggers, etc] can get along or if it is possible to do so. Classic quote: “A blogging entrepreneur drew a useful distinction between old mainstream media (MSM) which had attention deficit disorder and the best bloggers, who were obsessive compulsive. Newspapers started out on…
Read MoreThe Persian Blogestan
UPDATE 27.1.07: Iranian blogs were a topic of interest at Davos07 yesterday. HT: Buzz Machine ORIGINAL POST 26.1.07: Persian bloggers. They are our new neighbors. Maybe its time to meet them. PersianBlog.com is a large portal and a good place to start . . . if you speak Persian and Blogs by Iranians if you…
Read MoreA-Team visit 24 Set
Ok – I’m impressed! The theo-blogging crew of A-Team went to visit the crew of the TV show “24“. Here is Roger Overton hanging with Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). I cant really compete with that. Once our Young Leaders (pre-Emergent) team got a tour through the MTV studios in New York and we got to…
Read MoreRex Miller Gets Blog
Rex Miller joins the blogosphere. You may have read his excellent book “The Millennium Matrix” Technorati Tags: blog
Read MoreBeware the Blogosphere: Here Be Dragons!
The age of blogging innocence appears to be over. We have to be careful with what we say and what we upload. With the legitimacy of the blogosphere comes responsibility. I really hope it stays small-townish and relational . .. . but its also quite possible that 2007 will be the year where lawsuits will…
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