We Are The Web: Kevin Kelly talks on Wired about 10 years of hypertext. “No Web phenomenon is more confounding than blogging. Everything media experts knew about audiences – and they knew a lot – confirmed the focus group belief that audiences would never get off their butts and start making their own entertainment. .…
Read MoreAll Things Mobile
One billion people are signed up to a GSM network. Thats a lot. I am trying out WINKsite and have set up an account for those of you who want to get my text only RSS feed to your phone. My Wink ID is 10434. http://winksite.com/tallskinnyki/mobile. Let me know what you think. [UPDATE] Sasa Flek…
Read MoreBlogging and Great Bible Passages
I read Charles Spurgeon’s Morning By Morning devotion this morning and I was thinking again about blogging. “He that watereth shall be watered also himself.” –Proverbs 11:25 We are here taught the great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others…
Read MoreVOGMA: A Video Blog Manifesto
Adrian Miles gives a good video blog manifesto: “vogma: a manifesto [ in no particular order ] 1. a vog respects bandwidth 2. a vog is not streaming video (this is not the reinvention of television) 3. a vog uses performative video and/or audio 4. a vog is personal 5. a vog uses available technology…
Read MoreTop web sites
These are the top web sites measured by influence – ie, how many people link to them. The Technorati report has highlighted the blogs (red) and MSM – Main Stream Media (blue). Click to enlarge and notice that Boing Boing still kicks butt!
Read MoreAthanasius and Blogging
“Let this observation be a safeguard against sinning: let us each note and write down our actions and impulses of the soul as though we were to report them to each other” Athanasius Foucault’s article Self Writing critiques the Vita Antoni of Athanasius, written in the 4th Century as a guide for monks who were…
Read MoreBlogosphere Doubling every 5.5 months
State of the Blogosphere: – The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months – A new blog is created about every second. If you will be at Greenbelt Festival this month, I will be speaking on “The Spirituality of Blogging.”
Read MoreRevenge of the Blogger’s Wives
I remember the good old days of tap tap tap late into the night and my wife yelling at me to get off the computer and stop blogging my life away. But now I prepare breakfast for the kids while she prepares her morning blog post. Even worse, my email jams up with comments directed…
Read MoreWhat Bloggers Hear [1]
This morning I was wondering how bloggers would hear this parable that Jesus told about gratefulness. What Preachers Say This is the Parable of the One Who Returned Luke 17:11-18 And it came to pass, as they were on their way to Jerusalem, that he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. And…
Read MoreHow Shall We Then Blog?
My wife’s blog MumJones is not even a week old but already she has has over a thousand hits and comments from people far back in her life, giving credit to her lifelong journey of gift-giving and teaching by example. Her blog has a long tail (and her hair has lots of wooly dreaded tails).…
Read MoreIf the Bible was Blogged
I know the Bible was not blogged. The publishing technologies were different back then. But what if it was? What technologies would be used? What kind of blogs would the authors create for their unique messages? Jesus wrote in the sand with his finger. No doubt a Wiki-man who would have preferred his own Wiki…
Read MoreDealing with FundySpam
” . . .my Fundy commentators and readers are generally the worst behaved people on the internet – interupting discussions, trying to steal readership, and other internet sins that my pagan friends would not stoop to. So, I dont want an immediate crossover between this blog and my others because I dont want FundyFear to…
Read MoreEm. Leadership and the Grid Blog [updated]
[UPDATE]: Bob Carlton of The Corner is suggesting a Pentecost Grid Blog “So this Pentecost – how about we set our sights on trying to link at least 120 bloggers encircling the globe in a grid blog to post, cross comment and chat about how what Jurgen Moltmann calls ”the shy member of the Trinity“…
Read MoreBloggers will rescue
“The internet could do more to change the level of political engagement than all the breast-beating of introspective politicians and commentators. A 21st century political revolution is now only a few mouse clicks away.” Ian Duncan Smith. Thanks Sasa.
Read MoreAccountability and Self-regulation
Peggy Noonan on blogging. “It is not true that there are no controls. It is not true that the blogosphere is the Wild West. What governs members of the blogosphere is what governs to some degree members of the MSM, and that is the desire for status and respect. In the blogosphere you lose both…
Read MoreSome Blogging History
CNN : “When 100 people downloaded Movable Type during the first hour of its release in September 2001, the Trotts decided to run their own business from their bedroom, drawing the inspiration for the company name from their nearly identical age — Ben and Mena were born six days apart in 1977. ”We were just…
Read MoreYour Christmas QT movie on your Blog
Want to put that Christmas video on your blog? Here’s how . . .
Read MoreFavourite Entries
What are your 5 top blog entries this year? Bob Carlton suggests we make a single post of them, send the link to bobcarlton at speakeasy dot net, and he will post them at thecorner.typepad.com/top5/ Here are my personal favourites, although they are different than the posts that people wanted to comment on. 1. Postmodern…
Read MoreGeneration Text
The church was worried about the age of post-literacy, when young people stopped reading books and stared mindlessly into the TV screen. It is probable that we have moved on from that stage to the age of post-post-literacy – where TV watching is replaced by reading, writing, blogging, messaging, phone-texting, sms’ing, journalling, selfpublishing, etc. My…
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