I cant believe I am giving this to an emerging church blogger who doesn’t know HTML, never works in images or video, neglects internal linking, and whose individual posts rank poorly on Google. And rather than being a participant in a wildly experimental emerging CandleLighting-VJProjecting-PoetryReading-MonasticPraying . . [ . . let me . . .…
Read MoreTop 5 Blog Posts in 2006?
UPDATE: Bob Carlson wants us all to submit our Top 5 blog posts to him. [Remember last year??] A $5 donation for submitting 5 posts will go to a New Orleans charity – check out Give5Now. Here are my Top 5 for 2006. They may not be the highest rating but i enjoyed writing and…
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 Morea little renovation and i might need your help.
I am reversing my domain mapping and so a few things may not work here until tomorrow. tallskinnykiwi.com will point to tallskinnykiwi,typepad.com very soon. some links will not work and a few recent images. i will fix it soon when i get time. In the near future, tallskinnykiwi.com will be a place marker for a…
Read MoreBlogging advice for Godbloggers at Godblogcon
More Godblogcon participants are blogging up: Pajamas Media, Stand to Reason, La Shawn Barber The Right House. Others? Please tag your posts with "godblogcon" and we will find you. More: Skype Puppy, Emu. The closest thing UK has to this is the yearly gathering of bloggers at Greenbelt Festival and the various teaching sessions that…
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 More5 Questions on Blogging
You can read all the answers on ChurchCommunicationsPro.com. I might be biased . . . but i liked my 5 answers the best. Technorati Tags: blog
Read MoreBlogging for the Long Tail
A few years ago I was told by Blogger Forum that my little blogspot blog called Tallskinnykiwi had achieved Number 3 Top Site that week, beating out the Iraqi blogs, John Kerry and more importantly, humiliating the humorist blogger Dave Barry who I am sure never quite got over it. I thanked Blogger Forum for…
Read MoreThe Evils of Blogging
An article from the Restored Church of God warns about blogging in “Blogs and God’s Youth”. The dangers of blogging, according to the article, are openness and privacy, vanity, and idle words. Potential bloggers are advised to avoid the appearance of evil. “Blogging has become a socially accepted practice—just as are dating seriously too young,…
Read MoreThe Drama of Domain Mapping My Blog
TSK: Say, its about time I mapped my domain name. I hope Technorati still recognizes me when its done. In case you havent noticed, I recently used the domain mapping feature on typepad to map my domain name “tallskinnykiwi.com” to my main blog. That address was tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com, or, if you found the extra time to…
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 MoreOther Bloggers Taking a break
Quite a number of bloggers either taking a break or coming back refreshed after a vow of blog silence including: RobbyMac Bush League Theologian Purgatorio Theopraxis I feel VERY refreshed after a month away from the keyboard. I was able to think about my dealings with Babylon, the market as God [false god], my dealings…
Read MoreHow To Write a Blog Post
I have an article in September edition of Worship Leader called “How To Write a Blog Post”. If you read it and have some questions, leave a comment below. Technorati Tags: blogging
Read MoreThe Daily Scribe
New meta-blog: TheDailyScribe.com describes itself as “an evolving compendium of quality religious writing by bloggers.” It includes voices from the full gamut of religious thought including paganism, Judaism, Unitarian Universalism (where owner Shawn Anthony hangs) and Buddhism. Christianity is one of the players, of course, but the owner decided that the emerging church conversation was…
Read MoreBlogtalk: Rules of Engagement
What a wonderful world, this blogosphere of ours. Listen to the loud clashing of opinions as the web becomes host to the binaries of print and web, professor and theoblogian, academia and grass roots, EC bloggers and fundie-bloggers . . . cats and dogs. . . ahhhhhh . . . children, let us learn how…
Read MoreEC Conversation Pieces
– Scot McKnight (who has retaken first place on technorati EC blogs for the second time) discusses Spencer Burkes new book. – Out of Ur has a good article on Monasteries for Spiritual Formation – Paco Rosic from Sarajevo is painting the Sistine Chapel in Iowa and he is choosing the grafitti aesthetic. HT: Chad…
Read MoreTechnorati’s New Look
Great to see Technorati revamp its excellent site, but when OH WHEN are they going to correct the bug that causes my blog to be counted twice??????????. And yes, i have emailed them about this problem. Technorati Tags: technorati
Read MoreThe 1% Rule and Our Blogging Dilemma
It has been said that one in 100 is a content creator, or so i read today from Mindy McAdams who interacts with the 1% Rule from Charles Arthur: “It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact”…
Read MoreEmerging Church Bloggers Cartoon
Mac? Yes Typepad? Yes Earphones? Yes – just bought another set. Bonos (sunglasses)? Yes, on occasion. Crowder (gottee)? NO – I cut it off a decade ago. Maybe I would be an imposter also. Cartoon found on Mixed Moss Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, emerging church
Read MoreAmazing Grace and the Blogosphere
Walden Media (who gave us The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) are releasing a movie next March that might set the bloggers keyboards a-tappin’. Amazing Grace is a movie based on the life of William Wilberforce, set to release on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slave trade in UK. I was talking…
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