Its a holiday break for your blog – and for you to get it sorted out – new design, tidied up (thats me), listed with search engines (like Jonny) and my big recommendation this season . . . to start tagging your posts and even go back through your blog and tag the important posts.…
Read MoreBlogging from Restricted Countires
You want to blog but your country clamps down on free expression on the web. What do you do? If you want to start blogging without risking your neck, I highly recommend a new resource in downloadable PDF called "Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents". You will find 2 chapters that will be of immense value…
Read MoreBlog Flashback
Heres how my blog looked in 2001. Amazing how things have changed so quickly and its good to be reminded of how lucky we are today with all our bells and whistles. This old blog is now parked permanently at tallskinnykiwi.blogspot.com Note that there are NO comments because they hadn’t been invented yet – I…
Read MoreTim Berners-Lee Gets a Blog
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web, gets a blog and posts some thoughts about blogging and creative space: “In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could…
Read MoreBlogging Church
BloggingChurch.com is a book, a web site, and a series of podcasts that are worth listening to . . . especially if you are a Rex Miller fan. Technorati Tags: blog, church, emerging church
Read MoreSkinny on China
The fifth most visited web site in the world is www.baidu.com, a Chinese search engine that resembles Google but offers MP3 and SWF file searches in addition to everything on Google (Wikipedia) Apparently, music is free and legal to download in China (makes you want to learn Chinese, dunnit?) which is why Baidu is being…
Read MorePurgatorio and Upcoming Blogs
Purgatorio – Marc Heinrich’s blog is only a few months old and today he got more hits than I did. His “you might be emerging if . . . post” that i mentioned last week is already legendary. Challies made him King For a Week, and I am making him Skinny for a Week. If…
Read MoreAdvent 2005
Its Dec 1. Let the Christmas season begin! If you have some ideas for 2005, its about time to get the word out. As far as I know, there is no blog project lined up for this year. Some of us who participated in the world’s first GridBlog followed it up with an Advent ::…
Read MoreChurch 2.0
much talk about Web 2.0. much hype about Bubble 2.0 much skepticism about Burst 2.0 more thought needed about Emerging Church 2.0 As I type these words into my blog editor, the term “Web 2.0” is currently the most searched phrase or key word on Technorati’s blog search. There is a lot of discussion and…
Read MoreMy Top Referrers [thanks]
Almost a thousand of you lovely adorable bloggers have permanent links to me on your front page, which means that many of my hits come from your sites. I have enjoyed over half a million hits in the last season, and much of that is because of you. Your permanent links give me a high…
Read MoreBlogging Less, Living More
My name is Andrew and I am a blogaholic. Hours seem like minutes to me, when I am online. My kids say that their dad is always on the computer . . . which is not exactly true . . but I dont like the sound of that and I dont want their memory of…
Read MoreDJ at bloggers convention
I couldn’t make it to Biola for the Godblogcon bloggers convention (BUMMER!) but DJ Chaung led a session on emerging church blogs (are there any other worth talking about???). LINK Related: JollyBlogger reports
Read MorePyromaniac On Image Editing
“I’ve been using Paint Shop Pro for Web graphics for 10 years, so I’ve gotten pretty competent with it, in an amateurish sort of way. It has a lot of features that make this sort of thing easy. It takes anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour to go from a raw .jpg of a…
Read MoreBlogging Evangelicalism
“I’ll safely predict anyone who doesn’t take the time to understand blogging as an evangelical phenomenon will soon wish they had . . .” ” . . . . blogging is among the most equalized of all current mediums of communication available to evangelicals, and as such, it deserves some efforts at comprehension by those…
Read MoreYour Blog on Google Blog Search
Google’s new blog search engine is good step forward, but you may need to make sure your blog is listed. “Google doesn’t provide any direct way to submit your own RSS feeds to it in order to be indexed. To make sure your blog RSS feed gets all of Google’s attention you need to use…
Read MoreThe Spirituality of Torrent
Torrentocracy announced a Web API that will allow bloggers to manage their own dang torrents. BoingBoing says Ecto will support it soon. This will really help with distributing large video files. I have heard of Blog Torrent who may have already offered this, but have not had time to try it out. If you have…
Read MoreThe Spirituality of Not Blogging
Si Johnston (photographed here in Orkney) has a great post on "The Perils of Blogging" in which he adds a good balance to my Greenbelt Seminar post "The Spirituality of Blogging" Si says bloggers can lack:1. activity 2. reality 3. touch 4. depth 5. nurture [read about them] At my seminar, I also talked about…
Read MoreEmerging Church Stuff
– Emerging Church Conference with Dr. Gary Collins. Oct. 21-24 Link. HT: Dan-D – Pittsburgh Missional Church Cohort Sep 28. Link – Resonate Journal (Canada) goes online. Link – “What’s Emerging In The Church?” Article by Jeffrey Jue – List of Emerging/Missional Chick Bloggers. Link [UPDATE] Soliton: Sep 8-10, Ventura Cal. Link Technorati Tags: emerging…
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The Spirituality of Blogging
On Monday I gave a seminar at Greenbelt Festival called “The Spirituality of Blogging”. I introduced the topic with “What Bloggers Hear” and “If The Bible was Blogged“, as well as some recent statistics on blogging from Kevin Kelly and some thoughts on cyberchurch and blogging from Tim Bednar’s “We Know More Than Our Pastors”…
Read MoreGreenbelt 2005: The Skinny
UPDATE: I am leaving tonight to get down to London and then Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham. I will be on a BLOG FAST for the next 4 days while I am camping in my tent with thousands of other happy campers. Looking for me? I should be pitching my tent with the large group of…
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