The Digital Sanctuary

Yes, I'm still traveling and grossly miscalculated my wifi access.  And no, I will not pay for what should be a basic necessity.  (It should be noted, however, that I also said this about bottled water at one point.)   Sorry for all the missed emails, etc.  Here's something to think about while I'm not thinking….

Sometimes [...]

I got to visit Drew Goodmanson's church, Kaleo, at Mission Valley in the heart of San Diego recently when traveling.  I have vivid memories of the area having spent my freshman year at UCSD.  It was a blast to be at a friend's church.  When you've been in ministry for a couple of decades, it's [...]

There is an unstoppable trend amongst global youth to use online means in more pervasive and ubiquitous ways than ever before.  Convincing Christians to pay attention to the forum of tomorrow's generation is a constant battle as traditionalists often belittle technologically-mediated communication and perceive it as insignificant by comparing it to real world communication.
While skeptics [...]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released two excellent diffusion reports over the month of July.  Their Home Broadband Adoption 2007 report by John Horrigan as well as their most current report, China's Online Population Explosion by Deborah Fallows, provide the most recent (and accurate) data to date on Internet diffusion characteristics.  According [...]

The Wikiklesia Project: Book One will be released on July 23rd in e-book format on Lulu.  Subtitled “Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution,” the print edition of the book will become available following the virtual release.
The publication features more than forty diverse authors who explore the growing influence of technology [...]

Following my post about unordered lists, flocking information and David Weinberger's new book Everything is Miscellaneous, I got inspired to make his Authors@Google clip available (found at the end of this post).
It's an unbelievable hour long (beware – it makes references to both Paris Hilton's anatomy and 'provincial' Christianity) and underscores how things really [...]

New online church aims to reach those with no experience of God or church.

 
Holy Trinity Ripon has launched an online church for people who are not already engaged with the Christian faith, and who are looking for answers, but may not feel ready (or be able) to walk into a church building. [...]

It's a well known fact amongst my friends that I make up words and phrases to suit myself.  Even I, however, could not come up with some of the linkages, typos, mash ups and mutilations that appear in the search terms of my sitemeter on a regular basis. (See last month's Search Term Awards.)  
So, [...]

 
     Everything is Miscellaneous,
 
     The Power of the New Social Disorder
 
 
 
Since "Everything is Miscellaneous" in the digital world, we've lost our ability to neatly and succinctly place specific things into specific categories.  In light of the web, things often fit into multiple categories, just when we put them in a specific spot they float [...]

Final edited version of the video clip of my daughter's interview with Alexia Prichard of Netscape's NewsQuake! during the iPhone launch.  Yes, of course you can vote this clip up by just clicking on it. 
Proceed with caution navigating the rest of the site.