Job/Spam boards. Recently I have signed up with a half dozen or so “Job Postings” services, and since then, my amount of SPAM has tripled. It so disgusts me. Many of these boards pose as a “service” , get your info, and then inform you that to get your resume posted it’s “only $49.95” I need to start finding a Continue Reading

This morning Kelli brings this in to my office and says “Happy Father’s Day Daddy”. After I took one bite, I thought I should snap a picture. Today will be hard, I’m afraid, as my mind and emotions seem to be dominated by the sense of shame that I feel that I have let the family down in the “provide Continue Reading

This blogger (Blogos— he seems kind of related to me in his play on the word logos) ,  newly discovered this morning via my  Technorati, link  has this post about searching a local library (he’s in Maryland) using a javascript that gets an ISBN number from Amazon. That would be cool to use.  I have often done that (all manually Continue Reading

Smart Mobs has this entry on games that “use” the online world and the physical world,  suggesting to me that there may well be some interesting Online Community implications,  and also perhaps for Online Education,  as ftf classrooms and online classrooms meet Virtual World, Street, Mix It Up In Mobile Game. Uncle Roy All Around You sets online players alongside Continue Reading

From EthicsDaily.com: 06-04-03Eight weeks after the war’s end in Iraq and with no evidence of the alleged weapons of mass destruction, America’s three major newsweeklies featured articles on Monday related to the possibility that the Bush administration either lied about or grossly exaggerated the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. | more Isn’t it a bit scary that now we Continue Reading

A good freind questioned me about the extent to which I “share the depressed side of me” on my weblog. My first reaction to that is that I constantly restrain myself from doing so. What gets out to the weblog is often muffled from what I actually FEEL like saying, but want to “spare” my audience. On the other hand, Continue Reading

Dave Winer describes and analyzes the “Blogging Events and Conferences” phenomena. This has become a recent “fascination” with me, even though I’ve never done it myself (at least LIVE I haven’t). The instance I’m thinking of is when I went to hear AKMA and David Weinberger at Vanderbilt. Both of them were live blogging at times, but I had to Continue Reading

David weinberger blogged an event called “Digital Genres”,  and one presenter explored the use of “hypertext” in ancient documents (ie. the Talmud): David Rosenberg Rabbi Rosenberg is talking about the Talmud and the Internet. His question: Is the Talmud just like the Internet? The 6th Century text is printed with commentary all around it. [Illustration] Traditionally it is studied by Continue Reading

“No matter what virtual personae I may create, they are all personae of the person typing the words, a person with a social security number and a single, fleshy body that is not nearly as nimble as its online voices are” (Small Pieces Loosely Joined, P. 175) In talking about the close relationship of online personae and the “person behind Continue Reading

The previous post and some to follow in the next few hours and days are coming from my reading (re-reading) of the final chapter of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. I’ve been having a different experience of this book a year later as my first reading was just prior to the begining of my “Weblog” startup (and instrumental in turning my Continue Reading

Wow.  What an awesome and totally relevant to what I’m “into” kind of a conference.  Man,  I even had a friend who went to Chicago to some Religious Bookseller’s convention.  I am constantly amazed at how much is going on “out there”,  and how,  despite my subscribing to so many feeds from so many writers and presenters on Social Software Continue Reading

AKMA comments on hearing David Weinberger in person, (David’s entry into his blogging of the conference here, and his talk from the Conference’s pages) . AKMA’s comments ring a bell, since I went and listened to both of them (AKMA and David) present at Vanderbilt on Weblogs and education. I was one there who fit AKMA’s description of ‘had no Continue Reading

In reading a blog of a David weinberger talk (linked by AKMA in his blog of the same talk),  I saw a comment at the bottom of the page, posted by David himself on that blog.  Another item in the differences between Comments and Trackbacks (besides the fact that Comments are made on the server of the blogs being commented Continue Reading

Here I have edited the ideas expressed in an email I sent , where I suggest some of the roles I could play in a Seminary setting,  exploring,  implementing, and helping to provide resources to pastors and communicators in the Church about the possibilities for community and education online.  My reference to “Fellow” is reference to the “Fellowships” offered by Continue Reading