For a few months now, Hootsuite removes links and quoted material from posts when selecting Facebook as a recipient of the post. These things are NOT something that Facebook itself denies from the User standpoint, but through their API, since I can go to the Facebook site and post such a thing as a a user. But I’m having to copy the Continue Reading
Another “Discarded intellectual” group that is sorely needed by the church, is the “theologian of network technology”. It is kept from playing a significant role largely because the church organizations have followed the market tendencies in technology to the exclusion of sound theological discernment about how to let the “Social” actually BE social. It has much to do with theological Continue Reading
Since Facebook ‘s blog to wall imports have not been working , I had to seek out an alternative. Twitterfeed will not only post from an RSS feed to Twitter (which WordPress already does for me, for my blog posts), it will also post to Facebook. So I’ve hooked it up. This post should show up on my wall. (note: Continue Reading
Part 2 of session at Barcamp Nashville on some of the Javascript practices at Facebook
Facebook UI Developer Jackson Gabbard talks about some of the Facebook implementations of Javascript
spiritual director looked him square in the eye and said, “The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.†“You are so tired,†continued the director, “because a good half of what you are doing has nothing to do with your true powers, or the place you have reached in your life. You are only half here, and half here will kill Continue Reading
This article sounds what seems to me to be something of importance for the way we think about Social Media in the church. Part of the “herd†movement toward ever more immersive and immediate adoption of “making public†and “giving permissions†for apps to leverage our member info is raising questions about what we may be surrendering in our haste Continue Reading
Cory Doctorow, of BoingBoing fame, and author of such short stories as Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, has an article about the inane things we hear from various media writers and pundits. Here is my favorite: Facebook will blow over in a year and something else will be along Totally correct, but this is a feature, not a Continue Reading
The podcast in my previous post had Steve Brown posing a question for after the break: “Can we “do Church†on Facebookâ€, but Steve never really re-posed that particular question when they got back. I think that a lot of people looked into the book out of that kind of expectation. I think that we have a lot of people Continue Reading
I’m just going to keep hitting this. Despite my status as an online “evangelistâ€, I am in agreement with Jesse Rice and his thesis in The Church of Facebook. There is a need for us to engage in battle against those things about a hyperconnected world that would rob us of just a small portion of our humanity and wholeness Continue Reading
From the Q&A on UMPortal: At a recent conference, I noticed that having mobile access to social networks made a difference in how I interacted there. It’s interesting, the shift that’s happened. It really is. I was at a retreat where there were 25 of us in a cabin talking about faith and tech culture. People had their laptops open, Continue Reading
Chris Brogan talks about loading up his “system†with different ways of providing information and insight into how to most effectively utilize Social Media. His “system†is geared toward that very mission. I am most struck by this assertion: Frankly, I don’t worry about competition. I worry that there aren’t enough people executing effectively for companies Feeding Your System When Continue Reading
These things that Dave Winer is constantly exploring, working on, and lobbying for are in sync with my desires as a blogger/writer. I want a seamless, more extensible, wide reaching network under one roof. Right now and for a few years, I use WordPress to blog. When Twitter came along, and Facebook, I was not enamored with the “update†posts Continue Reading
Thanks Gavin for sharing this with us this morning, and tweeting it for us. Some choice tidbits: "I have friends who are white," says 19-year-old Diego Luna. "They are my white people friends and they are mostly on Facebook. That’s why I use Facebook. My brown people are on MySpace." The class laughs nervously at his description, and then they Continue Reading
I think these tech trends articles like this one may be missing an inportant feature/reality. API and integration…IOW, open social type hooks. All will have to play. It won’t be an issue of “movingâ€â€¦only determining what your mix will be. My Tweetdeck presently displays a mix of Twitter and Facebook. I don’t have the MySpace hooks turned on. I expect Continue Reading