We know more than our pastors: the rise of spiritual blogging (v. 0.11) Tim Bednar of e-church has been studying the phenomenon of "spiritual blogging" from the perspective of several Christian bloggers and has posted his white paper on the subject here. Has gleaned some great insights from his online investigation. If you'd like to participate in Tim's survey, visit today's edition of Blogs4God for more info.
Blogspam! Another first on the wild and wooly virtual frontier: I've been blogspammed.
Some spambot posted four posts to the comments form below advertising online casinos. I've deleted the spam and banned the IP (a nice feature of the YACCS comments forms). But no doubt the blogspam will continue.
The Friday Five 1. What food do you like that most people hate? Does candy count? If so, black licorice.
2. What food do you hate that most people love? Can't think of any. Unfortunately, I like most foods.
3. What famous person, whom many people may find attractive, is most unappealing to you? Cheryl Crow. (Even though she's also a U of Missouri grad, like me.)
4. What famous person, whom many people may find unappealing, do you find attractive? Hmmm....maybe Kathy Bates.
5. What popular trend baffles you? Genital piercing.
My favorite Andrew Andrew Jones had some very kind words about me to share on his blog recently. And without intending to turn this into a blogging lovefest, I must say that Andrew is one of my favorite bloggers -- as well as one of the best writers on issues of postmodernity or whatever it's called these days. And I'm not just saying that. Really. Go read some of his stuff. Don't limit yourself to his blog -- take some time to explore some of his thoughts on blogging, worship (and worship books), or wabi sabi.
Andrew Jones also looks cooler than I do. Go check out his family picture on his blog. Doesn't he look like a Tall, Skinny Bono in those Ray-Bans?
Although I'm a page ahead of Andrew Jones on Google, we both lag far behind more famous, blogging Andrew. Both the Kiwi and I would do well to remember Jesus' comments about the last being first.
TMI Think you're inbox overfloweth with too much information? Researchers have confirmed that you're right! The amount of info being churned out between 1999 and 2002 has doubled, according to the researchers. This means "800 megabytes of data - roughly equivalent to 800 books - was created for every man, woman and child in 2002." Yeesh. I think about half of that is on my desk right now.
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