Cluetrain Theses Number 5: People recognize voice
People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice.People are drawn to authenticity. It communicates to them that their own uniqueness will be appreciated, and that their own strengths...
View ArticleCluetrain Theses 6: Conversations of an entirely different kind
Number 6: The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media.Speaking of which, one thing that occurs to me is the hyperlink thing: The...
View ArticleDvorak Drool
In The Cult of the Cluetrain Manifesto, John Dvorak sums up his take by concluding "They're right! I don't get it.". He certainly doesn't. LIke this comment I found by searching on the whole phrase...
View ArticleWhat kinds of enabling are needed for the conversation of our community?
This thesis (number 6) is an important one for "Biblical Interpretation", since I feel that the Biblical Record is most valuable to us as an ancient conversation that seeks to tell the story of a trek...
View ArticleHyperlinks Subvert Heirarchy
It is a cardinal sin of the Church and its organizations to avoid the "masses". On site after site, Church site, denomination site, Publisher site, almost to a tee there is a widespread avoidance...
View ArticleThe Arrogance of Heirarchy
There seems to be a deadly arrogance amongst Christian publishers that THEY know better than the "customer" what the customer wants or needs. I've heard people say that online discussions would only...
View ArticleThe Conversations the Churches Need
The Web itself is a good case inpoint that illustrates how Hyperlinks indeed subvert Heirarchy. Church related folks are already out there "subverting", doing Weblogs, linking to valuable...
View ArticleMore at Home Online
Doesn't it say something extremely bad about the Church when I feel more "at home" and "valued" by the online community than I do when I'm "at Church"? This morning, looking through my News Feeds, I...
View ArticleCluetrain Tidbits
In looking through the intro in The Cluetrain Manifesto, the following stand out and strike me very theologically:Because the Internet is so technically efficient, it has also been adopted by...
View ArticleGod's web developers?
I see Church publishers and organizations providing us with plenty of "religious versions" of "marketer-speak'; phrases and lingo that does not quite ring true. Absent, are the "testimonies", the...
View ArticleBridging the Gap and Enabling Voice
Commerce is a natural part of human life, but it has become increasingly unnatural over the intervening centuries, incrementally divorcing itself from the people on whom it most depends, whether...
View ArticleAKMA on Weinberger in AKMA-land
AKMA, in blogging the presentation Weinberger gave at Seabury-WesternA global recommendation system has sprung up, making us interested in things we never knew we would be interested in. While theres...
View ArticleTalk amongst yourselves
Cluetrain theses 8 thru 10 In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new way. These networked conversations are enabling...
View ArticleTheses 8 to 10
In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new way. These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms of social...
View ArticleSmall Places, Joined by Interest
From Small Pieces. Loosely Joined (p.49):Consider the three places Adbusters, NetBaby, and RageBoys site on the Myrtle site that we explored. What do they really have in common? One is a political...
View ArticleSmall Pieces Loosely Joined
This site for the Book has all the text (it looks like it does) and discussions branching out in all directions, creating a lot of "loosely joined pieces"
View ArticleClueless review
I found this link at the Smallpieces.com site, and had to click and see what his problem was. from the review by this guy at the Washington Post, who has a little diatribe of his own, giving us a...
View ArticleExperts and The Threat of the Net
Thinking back to the discussion at Vanderbilt led by Weinberger and AKMA, and the debate that arose over the nature, role, status, and value of "the expert", I was just thinking about the way the...
View ArticleAllowing Voice
In Small Pieces, Loosely joined, Weinberger describes "Corporate-speak" as "bizarre", and indeed it is. I ask the question, when does "religious or theological language" become more like "corporate...
View ArticleWhere do we start?
A friend on another system asked a question: if we are sure that this vision of the future that has blogs and online community as key facets is the right one, how do we make that future happen? What...
View ArticleTurning Back and Avoiding Voice
A couple or 3 weeks ago, Ken Walker wrote an article that was a great Biblical articulation of something which I had noticed and written about in "Allowing Voice". I was bemoaning the tendency of...
View ArticleSeeking Goes Digital...Church Stay Analogue
Great Stuff from Jordon Cooper:...This hits at what I think is the root of why the church fears the web. Many churches generally won't allow individuals the freedom to create compelling content and...
View Articlejordoncooper.com : How the Church ignores the online audience
Excellent point. I have also found myself shaking my head when I see the Church passing up the oppotunities to participate in REAL conversations. (I say REAL, because much of what we do now, IN THE...
View Articlejordoncooper.com :: how out-of-touch the Church is becoming
Whoa man! Some real "stickin' it to 'em/us" from Jordon Cooper in these three posts (this one and the two before/below it):I wonder if the reason that churches are afraid to engaged in the online...
View ArticleAnother Cluetrain-like Rant
A fairly substantial and important rant , if I can say so myself. I did it over on my MT blog , entitled Cluetrain and Theoblogical
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