Ben has an excellent and honest post here outlining his doubts about the 'missional entrepreneur' that is in popular parlance.
I've posted a comment outlining some thoughts on how the role of the artist might help us imagine this in a new way.
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I've just received a copy of the book from Baker, and I have to say it looks great - thanks to everyone who's worked so hard to get it to the shelves!
I'm also very thankful for the great endorsements that the book carries - thank you all so much! I liked them so much I put a random generator on the sidebar; should change each time you load the page.
Just about finished tinkering... hope you like the new design, which hopefully has a lot more info upfront without being too busy...
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Excuse a few design experiments and general untidiness for a few days... just having a spring clean before the book hits the shelves in a few days ;-)
Don't get it.
Don't want to.
Hope I never will.
Ditto any other 'microblogging' nonsense.
It's ever-more candyfloss communication in an age of increasingly vacuous relationships.
No content:No thanks.
Technorati: Blogging | Blogs | microblogging | twitter
"Blogs,” [Oliver Kamm] wrote, “typically do not add to the available stock of commentary: they are purely parasitic on the stories and opinions that traditional media provide.” In The Guardian, Jonathan Freedland pointed out that the abusive, vitriolic nature of many blogs had turned the blogosphere into a “claustrophobic environment, appealing chiefly to a certain kind of aggressive, point-scoring male — and utterly off-putting to everyone else.”
I'd have to agree. Perhaps you find this one no different, but I find too many blogs way too low on content, and way too high on 'scoring' posts that just seem to be trying to attract stats.
Technorati: Aggression | Blogging | The Times | The Guardian
How ridiculous is this? Two people arrested and cautioned for 'stealing' wifi. I can't believe the Police actually wasted time on this to be honest.
Andrew Jones should watch out - his crawls for WiFI are legendary, and have even prompted him to call for software to help ;-)
Moral: don't be a dumb-ass. If you've got WiFi and you don't want people to steal it, activate some WEP.
Technorati: Andrew Jones | TSK | wifi | wireless
The Artists Formely Known as Vaux have just launched a project called The Open Office. (Here's one of us at work ;-)
What we're hoping to achieve is simple: an open-source, online space to resource a liturgical rhythm of life. A monastic office... but for the emerging city.
Over the years we've written a whole load of great pieces, and it seemed a shame that they were only really used once. And over the course of this year we are trying to create new pieces for whatever's going on: daily prayer, birthdays, dedications of children... even A Prayer for a Meal on a Tired Evening After a Day of Struggles in the City. A full list of what's there so far is [ here ].
But this is about us; the aim is for as many groups as possible to join and share their resources too. If you'd like to be able to post, leave a comment here or email theopenoffice {at} vaux [dot] net and we'll send you an author invitation. Include the name of your group so we can add a category for you. Then read the posting guidelines and get sharing.
I've been using Typepad for a while now, and I think it has really moved on recently. One thing that's been really bugging me though is the lack of work that seems to have been put into comments.
Ok, so there's hardly a huge amount of comments traffic here yet, but the thing that annoys me about Typepad - given that this is meant to be a conversational medium - is that comments aren't readily integrated into these feeds. Nor is there any simple way to do this. Services like Co-comment are great... but not brilliantly serviceable yet. So while people can read posts and do lots of other stuff like add them to Del.icio.us or Digg them, they can't see or make comments unless they go to the site.
What stats I have show that I get a lot of people reading this via my Feedburner feed, which is great. Hello to you all! As Vista approaches and the rest of the world catches up with RSS (see Wired article), I think this is the way most people are going to handle content. The actual site will be visited less and less. So I've been trying to tweak the feed to make it as useful as possible to people. I've added various 'flares' and an option to receive the feed by email.
Anyway, having had a dig around, I found some good hacks on getting comments feeds [ here ] and have thus just published a separate feed for comments from this site [ here ]
How does anyone else get round this? And does anyone else think it's about time Typepad got over the bling thing and did some real work making comments work better?
With Jonny posting some thoughts on The Gift, a book I've reflected on a great deal, I thought people might like links to a series of posts on gift economics I wrote last year, which links it with Veblen's 'Conspicuous Consumption':
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