This letter of resignation from a US Diplomat from the New York Times (via Common Dreams.org and JoKER’s Blog) is another indicator of the level of blindness of the Bush administration to the danger it is threatening to unleah not only on Iraq, but to stability worldwide. Our own lack of reasonable attention to North Korea seems to be warning enough Continue Reading
from Peter Storey (via UMNS- United Methodist News Service)Storey is the Williams Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at Duke University Divinity School in Durham, N.C. He is a former president of the Methodist Church of South Africa and a former bishop of Johannesburg. He was an anti-apartheid activist and served as Nelson Mandela’s prison chaplain. In this article, Storey Continue Reading
Cluetrain Theses Numbers 4 and 5 in my Cluetrain Section
I’m still here. I went for a job interview in St. Louis, and I have a good feeling about it. That’s all I want to say. It’s going to be at least a week before I find out. But, OK, one more thing. I really really want it. It’s a great atmosphere, and a growing company (which is really rare right Continue Reading
I love this quote from Leonard Sweet: We don’t need any more web pages, we need web ministries In this electronic age; this age of instant communication and lightning fast technology, we do need to return to something ancient; something older than the printed or even written word; we need to return to THE STORY. The Cluetrain Manifesto authors recognize Continue Reading
This link came in on a “Best of BeliefNet’ email news letter I get. The extracted quote/teaser: One year ago, journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan, his brutal murder videotaped by his killers. His father, Dr. Judea Pearl, spoke with Beliefnet about Daniel, the wife and son he left behind, his message of tolerance, and plans marking the first Continue Reading
A quote from George Barna |via this site| The biggest question facing current Christian leaders is not how to stop the development of the new forms of the church; such efforts would not succeed and could merely ignite the growth of those forms,” Barna says. “Rather, the challenge is to determine how to ensure that those forms are tuned in Continue Reading
Robert Parham (of ethicsdaily.com )asks: What does it say to Bush that the leadership of the Christian community doubts the moral justification for this war? And why can’t he hear?
Dave Winer on the Deal: It’s probably a good thing for blogging, and probably also a good thing for Blogger’s competitors because it’s likely to suck in other Google-like companies. It’s great that Google decided to buy rather than make. I wouldn’t be surprised if the other popular blogging tools had similar deals cooking. So the idea of being able Continue Reading
Gillmor’s eJournal celebrates the purchase of Pyra (Blogger.com) by Google : The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online publishing that has begun to change the equations of online news and information. Weblogs are frequently updated, with items appearing in reverse chronological order (the most recent postings appear first). Typically they include links to other pages Continue Reading
Google has bought Pyra (Blogger.com). This article from Executive Summary Consulting Regardless of how Google chooses to develop the Blogger.com service itself, a major player in the online media space has made a serious bet that blogs are going to be something worthwhile for the long term. And that in itself is what’s most important in this news. Blogs have Continue Reading
I was just writing some stuff as I blogged some private blogs, and some of it seemed appropriate to put out in public, as in some more rants about the Church and its “catching up” it needs to do with the rest of the comunicating world. “Capturing and Encoraging Online Stories” is another installment in the series of rants I Continue Reading
Anybody know anything about this? I couldn’t find it online, unless the thing at www.alwayson.com is it, which is some kind of Citrix front end. I wanted to take a look…..(later, I found it at http://www.alwayson-network.com and joined. I’ll check it out in the next few days.
From the Sojourners News letter, SojoMail, comes this reminder, which is scary: The Secret World of Dick Cheney by David Batstone 02-12-2003 In the very last page of the front section of Saturday’s “The New York Times” (2/8/03) was squeezed a short story on the betrayal of democracy. The General Accounting Office announced that it was abandoning its efforts to Continue Reading
Ethics Daily article on how the SBC Leaders are the “tow-the-line” court prophets for the Bush administration: Standing four-square in Bush’s bellicose corner are the Southern Baptists. Not all 15 million of them, of course, but at least the two score or so men who run the nation’s largest evangelical denomination.