The previous post, referring to my post about "WHAT MATTERS", pinpoints some difficulties I have in understanding why Church groups think they are "communicating" via the Web. There is certainly contact made, but the potential for conversation and the finding of such conversations via search are so much more powerful and useful than the email link that invites comments. The Website's audience misses out on the conversations, and the rate of response to such "invitations to respond" are likely very low, since the prospect of having our opinion read by "who knows" in some office somewhere is not much of an incentive to comment. There is no conversation there. The only response we are likely to get is a form response thanking us for our post and that someone will "keep it on file".
December 2003 Archives
A quote from David weinberger in the WIRED feature on the Dean Campaign got me going on the power of the conversation, and how the Churches still aren't getting it about online discussion. It's on my dotText blog
A link to my 0.94 install of dottext , to test to verify that trackbacks from MT do NOT work in 0.94, but after I upgrade (hopefully successfully) to 0.95 real soon, they will.
The trackback FROM my dotText works fine going TO MT
At ethicsdaily.com, more response to the SBC's move to sever ties with the Baptist World Alliance.
from the above link: Robert Parham: The decision represents more evidence that Baptist fundamentalists are retreating to a 19th century castle of racial and cultural homogeneity
Ok, I know this is really old news for the blogging community, but when I read this on Wired's News this morning, it brought a few things to mind thatmade me want to join the chorus of bloggers blogging the breakthroughs in politics the Dean campaign is realizing thru the Net.
"The Internet community is wondering what its place in the world of politics is," Dean says. "Along comes this campaign to take back the country for ordinary human beings, and the best way you can do that is through the Net. We listen. We pay attention. If I give a speech and the blog people don't like it, next time I change the speech."
Of course, I carry this over into lessons for the Church
In a couple of posts today on Theoblogical.Net , I lament a futher sign of the SBC becoming an "island to itself" , moving further from its heyday as a community of diversity. Of course, as the posts suggests, this ("diversity") is anathema to them, and precisely what they can't seem to handle, and taking further steps every year to assure that such "infidel notions" are rejected.
Note (via Trackback) to David W: Hearing your account of how you were somewhat depressed about politics, and this campaign giving you "new hope" just may help provoke a similar awakening in me. I have been following with some interest the Dean campaign's unprecedented reshaping of political conversation, but simply have not jumped on board. I haven;t even visited the site yet. Guess I need to do that. But I heard the interview just a few minutes ago, and it sounds like something to which I need to pay more attention, and get a sense for what people are excited about. Thanks.
David Weinberger answers questions about the Dean campaign's use of the internet in an MP3 aufio interview with IT Conversations. Click the Stream button or downkload it. These two links will take you to a Stream Request or a Download request page, where you click "Stream" or "Download" respectively. It didn't make me fill out the form before it let me hear the file. The stream file opens in your system's default mp3 player.
On my .Net blog, I found the reason for WIRED's "tardiness" these past couple of months
Last month, the issue did not arrive until the 17th, about 10 days late. It looks like the January issue won't be here until at least that late. It's not even up on the Website yet, whichstill shows the Phillip K. Dick/December issue. I was wondering whatmight be going on.
Another post to inform subscribers that I am now posting at http://theoblogical.org (which I have redirected to my MT blog). The RSS feed needs to be changed to this (http://theoblogical.org/movtyp/index.rdf)
I have stopped using Radio for posting (except for this post, of course)
I am also posting at a dotText blog (dotNet based) at http://theoblogical.org/dt/blog with RSS feed of
this: (http://theoblogical.org/dt/blog/Rss.aspx)Linking to Scott's dotText blog to see if it records the trackback
Mohler attacks the "Clergy Leadership Network" as a hotbed of liberalism, on my dotText blog.
I will make a reference to this post on my dotText blog, still trying to determine why it's not recording trackbacks from my MT blog.
Al Mohler so typifies the fundamentalist flavor, and is so smug about it, he elicits all the bitter feelings and frustrations I have experienced over the past two decades toward the Theological Police State that the SBC has become. I write aboutit on my Theoblogical.Net weblog
