Habits of The High-Tech Heart is a good read.  A lot of it bothered me. But it asked some worthy questions.  It left us to ponder what, if anything,  we should do as theological communities,  to bring alternatives to online life.  I think we need to be a “prescence” there.  We need to set examples of civility and hospitality,  and to be adept at “telling our story” online,  and using database technology to communicate an “integrated whole” theologically,  which means to constantly relate conversations about issues to resources for further exploration of those issues,  and relate the money in our budgets to the ministries they support (by linking to stories and descriptions and testimonies and conversartions about those programs), and relate sermons that have been preached to issues they raise and ministries we are doing that address those issues,  and on and on and on.  We need to “get geeky” in our thinking about databases and Church websites.  (It takes a geek to even say something like that)