‘Online relationships are 26.4% real’
February 27, 2009
… says D. J. Chuang, who uses some fancy math to prove it
‘What happens online is connection—not community,’ says blogger Anne Jackson
February 24, 2009
Jackson also talks about her ‘Facebook fast’ at Out of Ur
Blogging: one perspective
February 13, 2009
(Text reads: ‘We’re Going to Need More Monkeys’)
(HT: Vitamin Z >> Christians in Context)
Scot McKnight starts Facebook group: ‘The Society to Return to Pre-Steroid Home Run Leaders’
February 12, 2009
New website culls best from ‘25 Random Things’ meme
February 11, 2009
Best Random Things (HT: Sam Hodges, Religion Blog)
Al Mohler offers 8 suggestions ‘for safeguarding the social networking [Facebook, MySpace, Twitter] experience’
February 6, 2009
‘Six emails for a coffee date. A one-minute phone call could have taken care of all of that.’
January 28, 2009
Taylor Buzzard ‘Phone vs. Email’
Facebook nixes Burger King offer of free burger to anyone who sacrifices 10 friends
January 17, 2009
TechCrunch (HT: Collide Magazine)
Does Twitter ‘help us isolate, insulate,’ and avoid accountability?
January 2, 2009
Carlos Whittaker responds to an editorial in Relevant magazine
Is it OK to use deception on Facebook for the sake of evangelism?
January 1, 2009
Weekend Walkabout, December 20, 2008
December 20, 2008
26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):
“All” Always Means ALL. Right? - Phil Johnson
A Bad Sign - The Sacred Sandwich
CCM Magazine’s Top Ten Artist Blogs of 2008 (HT: Worship.com)
Don’t Waste Your Sexuality - Josh Harris
The Elvis-Beatles Relativity Fallacy - Rod Dreher
“Free” Christian music downloads from CompassionArt - Gospel Soundcheck
Glorifying God in Our Christmas Shopping - Tony Reinke
“Does my gift serve the soul of the recipient?”
How Hellish is ‘Time Out’? - Russell Moore
If Only it Were That Clear - Mark D. Roberts
Jonestown and the Reformed Movement - R. Scott Clark
“As weird and impossible as Jonestown seems today, what happened to them and what they did to themselves, is not utterly unrelated to ideas, causes, and personalities in the Reformed movement over the last three decades.”
Killing is My Business, and Business is Good - Paul Manata
Lewis’s Famous Essay on Bulverism (HT: Victor Reppert)
Martin Luther’s Christmas Book - Between Two Worlds
No Good Reason - Cerulean Sanctum
“In sorting through this clothing, the realization that I throw away just about nothing hit home.”
Online Community…Does it exist? YES! But I Think You Are Asking the Wrong Question - Rhett Smith
Phillips Daylight Window Concept Presentation - Joshua Sowin
Q+A :: How many U.S. churches exist? - Church Relevance
Reflections from a Church Pianist - Amy Scott
“When I have a brain freeze at a bad time, I’ve got a special look for the other musicians that asks, ‘What are you people thinking, man?’”
Six Christmas Poems - Marcus Goodyear
Tim Challies Day - Justin Taylor
Unpacking forgiveness in real life - Dan Phillips
Volition: A Short Film - Jonathan Ignacio
“It is a fifteen minute film focusing on three of the worst atrocities of human rights this world has faced.”
Why read through Calvin’s Institutes in 2009? - Ligon Duncan
Xmas Giveaway - Trevin Wax
“For the next ten days (Dec. 15-25), you have the opportunity to register to win all ten of my favorite books this year. Plus, an ESV Study Bible. That’s $260 worth of books!”
You Should Subscribe - Green Baggins
Zeitgeist as Agent? - Pseudo-Polymath
“Consider … for a moment the intelligent ant colony … from the ant’s perspective … here with man as ant. “
‘Tokbox’ review
December 16, 2008
John Saddington talks about an online service called TokBox at ChurchCrunch.
From the TokBox website:
“Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. Here’s how it works: you sign up and we give you a link. When you want to talk with anyone, just give them the link - they click and you chat.”
How to fight Googlification
December 12, 2008
Stephen Altrogge wrote a post earlier this week entitled, “Don’t Let Google Make You Stupid.” In a more recent post, he offers some tips for preventing the brain atrophy that can be caused by an overuse of social media:
“Fight For Real Reading
Blog reading, email, Twitter, Facebook, and texting are in some ways like junk food. Easy to consume large quantities without getting anything of substance …”
Justin Buzzard: “Redeeming Social Life Online”
December 12, 2008
An article at the Gospel & Culture Project discussing the Christian life as it relates to Facebook and other social media:
“Scripture calls us to thoughtfully create and cultivate. As this relates to technology, it involves taking a third way, what I call the ’side hug:’ thinking through how a technology such as Facebook can cause harm or help in our pursuit of loving God and others.”
“Friendship in a Web 2.0 World”
December 9, 2008
Adam Walker Cleaveland muses over the meaning and quality of friendship in the age of social media like Facebook and Twitter:
“I have 1478 friends on Facebook, 179 connections on LinkedIn, 366 followers on Twitter, 682 people subscribed to pomomusings RSS Feed and an average of 700 unique visitors a day here at pomomusings. Am I truly “friends” with each of those people? Would I feel comfortable calling them up and having a conversation? Of course not. There are some people on Facebook who I’ve never met (and probably never will) who I am friends with. There are some people on Facebook who I disagree with very strongly who I am friends with. And there are probably even some people on Facebook who I don’t really like, but I am still “friends” with them for whatever reason.
So, are there levels of friendship? Or do these types of social networking sites simply downgrade our value put on friendship?”
