The Digital Sanctuary

Speaking of online evangelism resources, the medium of choice for the YouTube crowd is overwhelmingly video-based, soon to be primarily mobile.  Although video podcasting (vidcasting) is newer in it's Web 2.0 applications, there are those innovative Christians who are already exploring the edges of using these particular technologies to present the Gospel to the next [...]

Tony Whittaker, a faithful online UK ministry partner, has been consistently communicating with The Digital Sanctuary providing reminders that Internet Evangelism Day is coming.  These helpful reminders keep IE Day on my calendar and encourage me to recommend this site as a significant resource for both the Church at large, as well as individuals who [...]

God's Spirit is doing something new that is springing up now; will we perceive it?  He is making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.  Isaiah 43:19
Some thoughts about the synergy between the Emergent Church and online technology that I posted at Jason Clark's site….
I have considered this passage from scripture many [...]

       Tim Berners Lee, World Wide Web inventor, delivers keynote speech at 3GSM.
Open Gardens (which you can access here regularly on my blog roll) has posted excerpts from the keynote speech given yesterday by Tim Berners Lee at the 3GSM – the world's premier mobile event.  Berners Lee (who is credited with inventing [...]

The rapid diffusion of new media technologies can be seen across a spectrum of social institutions.  Advancements in specific areas often seem to inspire changes in others. Thus, a multi-disciplinary approach, observing many social institutions simultaneously and interchangeably, seems to benefit our understanding of innovation diffusion.
The Futurelab newsletter is a regular read for me.  Although [...]

As all social institutions undergo the transformations that new media technologies will facilitate, social forecasters predict sweeping changes in traditional institutions and their modes of operation.  For example, the electronic library's usage will soon eclipse conventional library use and the Dewey Decimal system (relatively unchanged since 1963) will likely give way to tagging.  Thus, the [...]

                     
I just received a notice from The Pew Internet & American Life Project that their new Research Center site is up. 
The site offers original content and serves as a portal to the latest findings from Pew's 7 projects:
* Pew Research Center for [...]

Special thanks to Tino Buntic for coming up with the instantly viral 2000 Bloggers concept.  No doubt this innovative idea will be duplicated quite a few million times. Yes, Tino added me, but I can see I got beaten out speed-wise by Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin and Donald Trump to name a few.  I [...]