I was thinking about a couple of acquaintances I have that I have (with one of them) suggested that they would make excellent and popular bloggers, due to their quick wit and oft entertaining reactions to things.

They replied that two things deter them……that they don’t want to look at a computer when they get home, and even if they did, their connection is so slow that they find it painful.

I think that one major culprit here is the cluelessness of the group they work for (who do a website aimed at a highly likely to blog audience). Further, any employee of a web enterprise of any sorts needs to be given the tools to check in on their work from home…..especially if they hope to engender a community that , by nature and by neccessity, have to be open and active beyond the 9 to 5 hours. At least here, I get subsidy for my cable modem connection. And for a Church related web-centric enterprise? There’s got to be some involvement in the online world as a resident, not as people who MUST be there to know what the hell’s going on, but as people who are conversant, active, and somewhat intune with the cyberculture of the customers they seek to attract.

Then you throw the phenomenon of bloggin into the mix, and you add on to that the 4 or 5 years it usually takes for Church organizations in general to notice what’s going on right under their freakin’ noses, and you get the usual, behind the times, when are they gonna freakin’ wake up kind of a feeling. Yeah, just a fad (which is what I heard daily for 5 years in church circles about the Web), and already getting that kind of a reaction (if not the very words themselves) about weblogging. I’m not talking about people to whom I have only recently mentioned my fascination with it, and haven’t yet had the time or occasion to dive in yet, but from the top, who still seem to operate from a broadcast, print publication mode of production where it takes months to get something into publically consummable format. Anything that doesn’t lend itself to being sent through multiple channels is suspect (like message boards and now weblogs).

Alas, the trials and frustrations of early adoption (and lack of support to be such)