Archive for the 'web' Category
Today google announced the launch of a free WiFi network covering the city of Mountain View. Sweet. Alice and I will be living in Mountain View after we get married. I can’t wait to try it out from our place and see how well it works. According to the coverage map we should be included.
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Google calendar
The google calendar has been released. I’ve been searching for a while for a good web based calendar to use. For the last few weeks, I’ve been using 30boxes to keep up with things.
For the most part, I’ve been happy with 30boxes. I just imported all of my events from their service over into […]
Web applications for daily use
There has been a lot of hype about web 2.0 applications lately. I’ve seen a lot of good stuff out there and I have tinkered with many of the applications featured on Techcrunch. Most of the applications I have been experimenting with fall in one of two categories: calendaring and start or portal pages. I […]
Quick update and links
Things have been a little crazy both at work and outside. Something is brewing… More details later.
Here are a few interesting links have either educated or entertained me lately.
A Foriegn Affairs magazine article on the bird flu pandemic. Great read. From the author of The Coming Plague. Should the H5N1 morph into a […]
Google news
It seems to be popular this week to bash google. I’m not grooving with it. Most people seem to criticize them for selling out by caving in to China and doctoring its search results. There may be some cognitive dissonance going on.
For those who would claim that google is caving in to China’s repressive […]
Dion has a great post about some web 2.0 concepts that are popping up in other fields like law, media, and advertising among others. In the post, he states the following about some of the web 2.0 concepts:But that’s just the beginning. The interrelated, mutually reinforcing concepts in Web 2.0 like true disintermediation, customer self-service, […]
Andrew started a conversation on the parallels between the emerging church and web2.0. I think the similarities are interesting in that they are symptoms or manifestations of the environment they are coming from and how the web2.0 evolution might shed light on things to come for the church. Here is my attempt to articulate some fuddled, hazy thoughts on the subject.
Emerging church meets web2.0
Here is a fun intersection between the emerging church and web2.0. The cloud below comes from TagCloud. I built the cloud by combining feeds from blogs listed on Andrew Jones’ blog and the emerging church wiki. In total there are about 20 feeds. There should be more, but I wasn’t able to find the feed […]
Blogging so far
Maybe it is inevitable… you start blogging for a little while (a short while in my case), and you find that you want to start playing around with plugins, the code, and the layout. Maybe this is just part of the blogging process.
So I started looking around for a new theme/style. There are a lot […]
It is fascinating to me that some of the things that have been happening in my discipline (computer science) also seem to be happening to the church. Andrew referenced this in his blog today. My first exposure to some of the background to what was happening (both in software and in the culture at large) first came from ESR’s book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Eric first wrote the book “online” before it was later printed and published. This is something that perhaps some of the emergent authors should explore– first putting their thoughts, ideas, and theology online before or while publishing it. This might nurture, for good or bad, some of the decentralized contribution that has benefited software in the opensource movement. Some of this is clearly happening now through blogs and other online media but it would be interesting to see what would happen if it was applied to more formal and typically more lengthy collections of thoughts such as books.
Perhaps those working/assisting/struggling with the emerging church (and the context) could learn something from what has happened with software and the opensource movement. A good place to start would be the The Cathedral and the Bazaar and some of the related writings and critiques that ESR has compiled on the same site. We might learn something about spiritual formation from the hacker culture too.
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