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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006… Websites — a milestone reached in October — compared to just 18,000 in August 1995. Only 4.2 million are p*rnsites.
More MySpace horrors
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006I just received an unsolicited email from “Craig” at Myspace. Craig’s profile describes him this way: About me: GREG AND I ( CRAIG ) HAVE BEEN LOVERS FOR YEARS . BUT WE LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE SPICE IN OUR LIFES… AND A YOUNG BOTTOM BOY WOULD FIT THE NEED FOR US … Who I’d [...]
Open Source Revolution
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006From The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman: On the development of Apache, the original “open-source” (where traditional trade secrets — computer codes — are exposed to the public so the public can help improve them) internet infrastructure: “‘I was this near-dropout,’ explained [Brian] Behlendorf [an Open Source pioneer]. … ‘None of us had the [...]
Protect Urban Families from Online Porn & Predators
Monday, August 14th, 2006Safe Families protects children from pornography, predators, and other dangers online by providing free internet filtering software and training materials to parents, pastors, and non-profits. Free resources include: + SafeFamilies Filtering Software + Online Safety and Media Sobriety Manual (50 pgs) + Online Safety for Parents Webcast Training + Media Sobriety for Pastors and Church [...]
Why should I care so much … and other Christ-like Musings on MySpace
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006Ed. note: Jeremy’s latest article, published in Tri-State Voice (Aug. 2006) “Are you listening to me? Really listening?†– Jesus (Matt. 11:15, The Message) Radioactive B! @H, Suckan*t Sl*t, Boyish Sex Machine, NaughtyXXXAsh – porn stars or teens on MySpace? “Why should I care so much for everyone else when no one gives a s!*# [...]
Live blogging from UYWI
Saturday, May 20th, 2006“Have You Seen Your Kids’ MySpace?” DESCRIPTION: Radioactive B!+@H, Suckanut Slut, Boyish Sex Machine, NaughtyXXXAsh – porn stars or teens on MySpace? “Why should I care so much for everyone else when no one gives a s!*# about me?” “y do guys … say that they like u but make u feel like s!*#?” “I [...]
Google’s “message in a bottle” really works
Friday, December 30th, 2005Rudy Carrasco tipped us off to the fact that name dropping in blog posts increases blog traffic from Google and other internet search engines, a lesson that’s proven to be very true in Year 1 of this blog. I’ve had more hits from people searching for Tupac, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, A. R. Bernard, [...]
More on the Myspace Generation
Friday, December 30th, 2005Check out Andrew Jones’ article, “Linking to Cyberchurch” at Relevant Magazine: “If you have engaged in the Internet through the reading of religious blogs, downloading church podcasts, watching videos or chatting online with Christian friendsâ€â€chances are, you’ve participated in cyberchurch. Cyberchurch is one of the fastest growing macro-models of church today. So says George Barna [...]
Behind the curve, again
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005Five years ago, a global evangelical ministry asked a group of youth workers how to become relevant to young people. We suggested leveraging the power of the internet to create a “virtual youth center” where kids could share interests and ideas, find their voice, and connect. Several months later they hired me to write a [...]
CCDA blogging
Sunday, December 11th, 2005One of the highlights of the CCDA conference last month was pinch hitting for Rudy to co-present the City Blogging workshop with Neil Cox. Neil’s a blog machine while I’m still a relative newbie, so it made for a fun presentation. Neil just posted a question from Linda Dyer, one of the workshop participants, and [...]
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