Radio3: Dale Lature’s linkblog. Another great tool from @DaveWiner. Love it.

http://radio3.io/users/dlature/ Just discovered Radio 3 and put up a couple posts using it. Bravo! I then discovered the WordPress feature. Hooked it up , too. I will keep it, too. Only thing that threw me insitially is that the link , being in the content field, wasn’t made into a link when it shows up on my blog, but I Continue Reading

Facebook Social Graph & Theological Communities

I will blog yet again on this topic,  which I have written about before,  and I am accustomed to being greeted with the Web version of CRICKETS.  That’s OK.  “Social Graph” really hasn’t made the rounds into lay usage,  or even programming usage in most circles.  But the Social Graph as I am using it,  refers to the “Connectivity” data Continue Reading

Facebook posting from Social WP plugin works again…

some dude named cangluo on the WP forums posted a fix.  His explanation: “For plugin author Alex King and plugin developers: The problem happens because WP 4.0 has changed the way it creates and verifies nonce. They call this Tie nonces and cookies to expirable sessions. Basically it means WP now use the current session value (along with other variables) Continue Reading

Time for some new impetus toward my perceived calling

Just as I indicated yesterday that I need to re-apply myself toward more writing (which will take place in the blog medium,  as it had for about 8 years from 2002-2010 until being sharply curtailed due to a lot of energy being devoted to Twitter and Facebook and other Social Media, and a developing exploration of video blogging),  I also Continue Reading

Blogging Revival Impetus (HT @DaveWiner)

saw this tweet from @DaveWiner today: When people tell me they loved Radio UserLand, that means, to me, that they are pioneers, early adopters. Very likely Natural-Born Bloggers. — Dave Winer ☮ (@davewiner) September 7, 2014   When I began blogging in June 2012 (and yeah,  I was using Radio Userland)  ,  I quickly made a pretty good splash in Continue Reading

As the 4th approaches, remembering my #WildGoose2014 #wgf14 friends

4 days removed from returning from Hot Springs, NC,  I sit on July 3rd on my front porch wary of the Patriotism-fest about to be unleashed,  and most wary of the Constantinian moves taken by so many of our even Progressive churches.  We’ll sing Battle Hymn of the Republic and America the Beautiful,  songs I tend to like,  but in Continue Reading

Church, Web, Social Media, and captivity to secular IT

The “Social Media Business-fication” of the Web has infected the organizations that could be/should be best equipped to do theological reflection on what elements of the Social Web are important to preserve and to build upon.   The “numbers games”  of amassing followers and “likes” drowns out the concerns about the quality of the community maintenance.  The “technological infrastructure” concerns Continue Reading

ah, for the ‘good ol’ days’ (of Blogging, that is)

A few posts I began reading this morning,  prompted by a Twitter link from Dave Winer,  who is one of , if not THE “Blogging Godfather(s)” to me,  as I cut my blogging teeth on his Radio Userland blogging and RSS software.  Dave linked to a post by Matthew Ingram who wrote wistfully of the “unedited voice of a person” which Continue Reading

Inequality For All – Excellent Choice

Just got back from the Y where my choice of reading/viewing fare was a Netflix movie, Robert Reich’s “Inequality For All”.  (Don’t know why they didn’t include that link to Netflix on their ad ) This alone was a program making the 7.99 a month monthly price well worth it.  Heck,  it’s worth it if you have friends,  since you Continue Reading

The Atheists That I Believe In

I have written and I have had many a discussion where I articulate my sense of affinity for that which many atheists articulate. The reasons for rejecting a notion of a personal God are many. A good many of these reasons reside in the philosophical and “rationality” realm. While I have some questions about how truly exhaustive and definitive these Continue Reading