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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010“Freely you have received. Freely give.” – Jesus Proponents of “Open Source” ideas get this instinctively, and the far-reaching impacts of their generosity speak for themselves. In the last fifty years, nothing has transformed the world around us more than the Open Source technology that underlies the World Wide Web. How we do just about [...]
Wednesday Webcast: Did You Know? Shift Happens 4.0
Wednesday, November 11th, 200993% of American adults own a cell phone. The avg American teen sends 2,272 txt msgs evry mo In Feb 2008, John McCain raised $11M for his Presidential campaign the traditional way. Barack Obama attended 0 fundraisers, yet raised $55M online. The computer in your cell phone is one million times cheaper, one thousand times [...]
Note to Self: Teach Naked
Thursday, August 6th, 2009HT: Ralph Castillo
On Independence Day Eve, a New Free Debate Rages
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Busines/internet/marketing gurus and best-selling authors Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki and others all weighed in today on a debate about Free on the day before we celebrate political freedom. Fascinating timing, but I suspect the release of Anderson’s book Free: The Future of a Radical Price was connected somehow to Independence Day. [...]
How social networked are you?
Monday, June 29th, 2009If you find it hard to keep up with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Youtube, Vimeo, Myspace, and all the other web 2.0 social networking sites sprouting up, this site will make you feel even more overwhelmed. And what’s the point of engaging all these spaces anyway? Beyond personal reasons like reuniting with friends, nurturing hobbies, [...]
How to Lose Web Readers
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Great insights from all purpose web/technology/entrepreneurship/marketing guru Guy Kawasaki in this month’s Entrepreneur magazine. Here’s a compilation of 13 silly and even stupid ways some companies are hindering adoption of their products and services. So if you are doing any of them, don’t. 1. Forcing immediate registration: Requiring a new user to register is a [...]
Semi-Weekly Webcast: 40 WordPress Optimisation tips
Thursday, April 30th, 2009From the Turbocharge your Blog files. 40 WordPress Optimisation Tips in 40 Minutes WordPress Optimisation – A4UExpo View more presentations from Joost De valk.
Urban Ministry Resource Widgets
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Christian Social Justice Widgets: More resources to enhance the functionality of your urban ministry website, from the good people at UrbanMinistry.org. You can bet I’ll be using (at least) a few (of the 20 available).
White House 2.0
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Change has come to America. The new White House has a blog and RSS feed. Do you?
Young people continue to change the world
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009From Mashable: WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg turned 25 [Sunday]. In addition to his work building the massively popular blogging platform, Mullenweg was named among the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008 and one of the Top 30 Under 30. Mullenweg writes: “If you had asked me 7 years ago where I [...]
Turbocharge Your Blog
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Added a bunch of free (open source) widgets and plugins after upgrading to WordPress 2.7 yesterday. Here are my currently active plugins and widgets. Question: What plugins and widgets do you use? Update: Just deactivated the Preview Anywhere plugin because I found the pop-up box annoying. Pugin Version Description Action Akismet 2.2.3 Filters spam comments [...]
Paging DJ, Ben, Adam, Marko, CB, Rudy, Kekoa, Tony, Andrew, Jordon, Jamie, Neil, and any other techies who care about reaching youth
Friday, December 12th, 2008I don’t usually post IM transcripts cuz they can b tricky 2read, but this is the first time I’ve attempted to put in writing (if you can call IM writing) an idea that has been percolating for at least a year. If the idea is ever going to materialize, I need your help. Let’s call [...]
The New Digital Divide: Overcoming Online Segregation
Friday, December 12th, 2008Andrew Sears, internet guru and mastermind behind TechMission, UrbanMinistry.org, CityVision College, ChristianVolunteering.com, and all things “Jesus, Justice, and Technology” related, offers this on the growing “virtual ghetto” online in a Sojourners column this month. You can see a similar segregation reflected in profiles of Christians on online social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace; [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Sergey Brin on the Miraculous Power of Scale (and More) Google co-founder Sergey Brin guest lectures at a computer science class at UC Berkeley. He may not be the most dynamic public speaker, but one of the most brilliant Internet minds has a lot to say. Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide [...]
Is the open source business model broken, or can it fix public education?
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008I’m a huge fan of Open Source. Both the concept and its implementation challenge my assumptions about how to refine and scale education reform, community development, justice movements, youth ministry, business ventures, publishing, and more everyday. That’s why this caught my eye this morning, from Wired magazine editor-in-chief Chris Andersen: Stuart Cohen, a software company [...]
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