26.03.2010
So let’s see if I can pull all these disparate threads together … I took my Strengthsfinder survey this week, and discovered that my #1 strength is Ideation. What does this mean? It proves what I’ve always said … about myself … I’m an incorrigible idea person. So here’s one idea that I just couldn’t [...]
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14.02.2010
I’m positively geeking out at this point about the Theology After Google conference, March 10-12, in Claremont, California, because one of my all-time heroes of the Web and journalism—Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine.com)—is now planning to participate in the conference via Skype. Jarvis is a former TV critic for TV Guide and People magazine, and he’s the [...]
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01.02.2010
Last week, I had the privilege of speaking, via Skype, with the “Theology After Google” class at Claremont School of Theology. Tripp Fuller, who is co-leading the class with Phillip Clayton, recorded my abbreviated talk on “The Theology of Twitter,” and I’m grateful to him for posting it online: I’m extremely excited to be speaking [...]
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12.01.2010
This is a guest post by Dennis Teall-Fleming: We look back on historical epochs and give them names, usually described by the things we humans make during that period. Bronze Age, Iron Age, Industrial Age, Nuclear Age … Guess what they’ll call the past hundred years in a millennia or two? The Plastic Age! Yea, [...]
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08.12.2009
I’ve always thought it’d be fun to open a soda bar—like the old-fashioned soda fountains that pharmacies used to have in them—except the unique twist would be “mixed” soda drinks with unique flavor combinations and fun names for the drinks. I also think there’s a huge opportunity for someone to introduce lychee soda drinks (from [...]
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