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