Another 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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