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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 [...]
Long Tails and Beyond the Noise
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Loving the Conversational Dynamics of Twitter and Facebook
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008For posterity, I’m reposting last night’s Twitter/FB status updates and related comments here. _______________ Jeremy is hopeful that partisans can see beyond a political defeat to celebrate history. electing a biracial president is a very good thing.via Twitter – 9:58am – 8 Comments Philip Chin at 9:59am November 5 i prefer a part asian guy [...]
Monday Musings
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Baby is now officially overdue. After hearing for months that our son could come “any day,” plus Diana having to endure bed rest since Labor Day, contractions almost daily since the end of September, and a 12-hour contraction spell that included two hours in the hospital two weeks ago, it’s been an emotional roller coaster [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, August 15th, 2008Comforting Kyra and MacBook Pro, during better days. I drank the Kool Aid circa 1985 when I first used a Mac. The hyperlinks, the sketchpad, the drag and drop trash disposal, the mouse — compared to PC’s c://blahblahblah I was hooked. After law school, the “real world” suppressed what I knew to be true — [...]
Free $$$
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008They’re at it again. My friends at TechMission are once again innovating solutions for under-resourced urban ministries and … GIVING THEM AWAY FOR FREE! This from a recent TechMission announcement: TechMission’s UrbanMinistry.org is adding a new free Website called ChristianGrantsDirectory.org, which has information on hundreds of Christian foundations, nonprofit discounts and sources of in-kind donations. [...]
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