All of that (the previous post was offered: “Some boring technical background of the Weblog building” was motivated by the slight hope (perhaps “wishful thinking”) that I might be able to find a home and an academic “fellowship” in which to continue this work,  and have a way to get paid to do it or be able to manage the project and make an income, too.  I have ranted before about how the Church needs the kind of entrepeneurship such that it invests in something like an MIT Media Lab (in “An MIT for the Church” — there, I just used a shortcut— see the “some boring technical background of the Weblog building” entry below).  The Church has pastors, and theological teachers,  and secretaries and custodians.  It also needs to support the people who can help build the next generation of “communication technology systems” which will enable it to more effectively use not only time and paper but also its people power –like Knowledge Management. 

But it goes much deeper than KM.  It’s got to do with connecting people with passions for certain things; something that is known in Church structures as “calling”.  People often discover that certain callings bring them together in mission with others.  The more “avenues” we enable for these callings to be expressed and explored corporately (ie. in the context of exploring call as a community),  the more effective we are in our community.  I believe so strongly that these web technologies arriving are going to accelerate the pace of  our exposure to ideas and to visions of our people.