Entries Tagged 'blogging' ↓

Yesterday after we had our new pastor over for an old-fashioned pot roast lunch, complete with my wife’s to-die-for homemade chocolate pie, I found myself weeping while I did the dishes.

The pie really was that good, but it didn’t make me weep. And the pastor wasn’t picking on me. Or at least, he didn’t make me cry.

Stephen Eley, Ken Scholes, and Edward Bear did that.

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I’ve been talking to Ken Mann a bit via email lately. He directed me to this video that wrestles with relativism and the human need for absolute truth–and a rowdy discussion of the video over at ThinkingChristian.

The video is not quite three minutes. (Click here if it won’t load.)

So here are my thoughts and questions for you.

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Who cares what the bloggers say about blogging.

Who cares what Facebook users say about Facebook.

What does NYU say about social media trends? What does the New York Times say? What do investors say?

Sometimes we need to step outside our blog bubbles and take a hard look at the online world we’re living. Don’t be afraid to ask the hard question about all these promises.

What is hype, what is hope, and what is verifiable fact?

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Lately, L. L. Barkat and I have been pretty busy trying organize everything we know about social media for a presentation at Mt. Hermon. Yesterday, I presented some of what I’ve learned about social media to the San Antonio Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

I promised the AFP people to share the slideshow online. Here it is…
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Ok, not really. And I don’t want folks to think this is some kind of weird self-promotion, branding thing. But really, if you are part of the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour by all means grab the widget for your sidebar or for a permanent page on your blog.

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What is a widget, you ask? It is a little bit of code that can be shared between many users that changes based on the information it receives via an RSS feed.

How can you have fun with widgets?
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50,000 words each week. That’s how much people are writing as participants of HighCallingBlogs.com. A new draft of a nonfiction book about faith and work–each week! How awesome is that?

Gordon and I are slowly getting a handle on the gargantuan task of managing the network of HighCallingBlogs.com.

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My good friend, L.L., is coining a new term and using Blogger in an interesting way to build community for her upcoming book: Stone Crossings. I haven’t read the book yet (because it doesn’t come out until April 2008), but I’m excited about the premise.

L.L. first posted about her wog concept at Seedlings In Stone a few weeks ago.

Pretty quickly, several friends pointed out a problem with the word she coined.

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My friend, Liz, is thinking about the universe today. She’s like that. And her wonderful essay culminates (for me) with the recognition that everything is interconnected.

With every breath, I change the atmosphere.
With every step, I change the ground we share.

There’s another side to that kind of thinking. Sometimes I like to remember exactly how small I am.

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First, Mark D. Roberts posted his notes from yesterday’s session on his site. The GodblogCon folks put Mark’s audio online as well. Here’s a full list of all audio files from GodblogCon, made available on the Scriptorium.)

Second, Hugh Hewitt invited us to be on his radio show this afternoon. (Mark has been on Hugh’s show several times, like yesterday, but this is a first for me!) We’re taping it at 1:30 PST, and it will go on the show later today. I think you’ll be able to stream it from his site this evening as well.