I’ve long been critical of how the rise of the micro-blogging (starting with the most micro of all, Twitter, and the slightly longer form Google + and Facebook, and the services like Tumblr, where I tend to go to make longer-than-Twitter comments on things that elicit a response from me that I read online. Last night (or early this morning, Continue Reading
My biggest peeve in perusing the daily, hourly, constant stream of Social Media (Twitter in particular) is the barrage of self-promotion that most organizations think is “doing Social Media”. If I weren’t committed to trying to lend my voice and my skills to helping the church understand and utilize Social Media* , I would have unfollowed a lot of “church” Continue Reading
The title of this post sounds a bit clueless to me. Blogs ARE a sizeable portion of Social Networking. Blogs existed before just about EVERYTHING that is now thought of as “Social Networkingâ€. I think it would be more accurate to say that “Blogs are no longer the rageâ€, or “Twitter and Facebook†are more popular than Blogsâ€. Well, DUH. Continue Reading
Leo on live.twit.tv are talking about how blogs are being used less and less, but Scoble says something that to me and a whole lot of folks is pretty obvious: Every now and then you have something you want to say that takes more than 140 characters. For me, that’s most things. If I do more than just link to Continue Reading
I am seeing a rash of “advice†on how to “think up†blog posts. No doubt this is a result of the Twitter popularity. I hate gimmicks. Much of the advice given about “increasing your blog output†is irritating to me. Why? Because the point of a blog is to speak your mind. I see so many twitter posts that Continue Reading
Several months….even over a year, and Chrome is still not accommodating the people who blog using WordPress. There are NO “blogthis “ type plugins for it like IE has for LiveWriter (even Firefox has one of those). There are also numerous complaints about text formatting for blogging from Chrome to WordPress. If I have come upon a web page I Continue Reading
The main thing keeping me from using Chrome a LOT more is the lack of Plugins for blogging. I am accustomed to my LiveWriter Blogit link, or even my Scribe Fire editor that allows me to start up a blog post with the relevant text that I have highlighted on the web page already in quote format for my Blog’s Continue Reading
Wow. Has it been that long already? This is a book that pointed me in the right direction. It got me blogging. It instilled some boldness in me. IN a sense, that it it has been 10 years has me a bit ashamed of myself. I would have thought I could have achieved so much more than I have. I Continue Reading
From the below , it looks as though my blogging is coming up on its 7th anniversary. Sunday, June 02, 2002 In the process of moving a lot old writing to Weblogs here to this weblog site. TheoBlogical Community
It seems to me that Facebook has a whole bunch of the “overlay†that keeps most social communication “surfaceyâ€. In other words, there’s a whole lot of “conversation piece†stuff and entertainment games (like Trivia quizzes), but very little emphasis on the more conversations that get right to it (those things that the good blogs are made of, which put Continue Reading
I hate to admit it, but I have seen almost the entire scene of “Social Networking†pass me by. I was early on the Web, early in getting up a Website on theological matters that sought to incorporate dialogue and online community, early on blogging. But since the advent of Facebook (MySpace also seems to have been passed up) , Continue Reading
This post will prevent another WHOLE month going by without any blog posts. I’ve been in quite the silence. Now that it’s summer, and my son is done with school (and halfway through his college career!!!) , and I have that long awaited netbook since March, with which I have been playing and installing Windows 7 and reinstalling this and Continue Reading
I’ve been trying to change my “politics†heavy tendencies in blogging, but in doing so, it seems I am also finding precious little I feel moved to write about. But I don’t feel that it’s just due to some downswing in political fervor (although there is certainly that). It’s also been a really busy time at work. I’ve also been Continue Reading
I just noticed how my previous post was SO similar to the one two posts before it, almost a month ago. And that makes a grand total of 5 posts for the month. Really an extremely dry period. It seems that along with this, my propensity to worry about anything under the sun has increased. I can write today only Continue Reading
It’s been nearly three weeks since I last posted. That might be a record for me. I’ve not even been thinking much at all about posting in that period. I’ve all but withdrawn from the politics going on. I voted early (last week), and I’ve not watched The Daily Show much at all. I just don’t want to be reminded Continue Reading