Posted in Communication, Politics on November 11th, 2006 Comments
New Zealand’s top education authority announced they will allow “text-speak” in national examinations. That should capture attention by itself, but the fallout in the blogosphere is even more deserving.
This is a bad idea on many fronts. I could give you my reasons why, but I’ll just let those who have spoken receive more [...]
This is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent to my parents and some friends, reflecting on my day. I started the day teaching some communication workshops at a youth leadership training event at a church in the synod. The topic of the day was utilizing effective online community to build ministries. [...]
Posted in Communication, Religion on October 26th, 2006 Comments
There’s a new Web site on the block, TheChurchYouKnow.com, with parodies of the familiar public service advertisements on NBC.
While I might not agree with some of the perspectives therein, staunch traditionalism and all, I think there’s a good place there for discussion. Like whether or not Jesus would buy a Hummer instead of ministering [...]
Posted in Communication, News, Technology on October 9th, 2006 Comments
I’d be remiss if I didn’t blog on Google’s purchase of YouTube for more than $1 billion.
Google is ubiquitous in culture. The name has been verbed. No longer do you look for something on the Internet, you google it. Not so much YouTube.
But I do think it says yet more about the [...]