Dale Lature: Online Community

Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium Author of two of the books in my Cyberculture collection, Escape Velocity and Flame Wars

Erik Davis' Figments & Inklings from the author of TechGnosis, one of the many cyberspace/cyberculture type books in my Library

Real vs Virtual as I saw it , 1995-6

Weblogging is like conversation

Practical Ministry Innovations: "In the brilliant book, The Cluetrain Manifesto, the authors maintain, â01CWe came to the Web to find each other.â01D When an elderly shut-in spends three hours a day playing cribbage with Gen Xers from Canada. When my daughterâ019s responsible for half of the 700 million instant messages logged in the U.S. per day (well, almost half). When houses with front porches are selling like Pokemon cards. When those front porches are coming complete with Ethernet ports. You bet weâ019re searching for each other."

From Weinberger (Cluetrain co-author) - I had forgotten that Weinberger has had a lot of contact with religious disucssion of Cluetrain ideas.....a video produced by FaithandValues and broadcast on Oddysey a while back (see blog earlier)

JOHO - May 11, 2002: "The Pope on the Internet [I was about to send this issue when I read the Pope's message about the Internet. Here's a response, as if the Pope is about to start blogging and is looking for other people - Jews, especially - to kick his ideas around...]"

I saw this video on FaithandValues.com a while back. I wonder if its still there? If not, it oughtta be.

wfn.org | "Is God in Cyberspace?" to be answered on the Internet: "Hosted by Jim Hartz, "Is God in Cyberspace?" will also air on the Odyssey Network as a "Real Bottom Line" special on Nov.12, at 2 p.m., Eastern and Pacific Time."

:: jason evans online ::

spirituality, community, creativity

He also links to Cluetrain and to Jordan Cooper, so add him to the list!

The Art of Voice Online - Jordon Cooper I think this is the same article I linked last night, but I like this formatting and template better......

Easum.com: "The Cluetrain Manifesto, by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2000), 190 pages, hardcover, $23.00. Obtain from www.perseusbooks.com All church webmasters, anyone interested in interactive, electronic ministries, and any church leader wanting to explore the power of the "word-of-web" should read this book. The book focuses on the power of the age old medium of conversation and shows the limitations of PR, advertizing, messages (announcements), and all other forms of marketing. The book is bound to do just what it is about, create many conversations."

What's the Use? - New Life Ministries: "The Web as an Active Medium The big mistake you can make when thinking about a web site is that itâ019s a passive medium like television or print publications. The web is active. In fact, itâ019s interactive. Always keep that in mind with your web site. Youâ019ll need to make a minor paradigm shift with the web. Corporate communication is challenged to change because of the web. A concept called The Cluetrain Manifesto is a must read for any pastor in the postmodern culture. Actually, Cluetrain contains many principles found in most churches, if not in practice at least in theory. The key words for an effective web site are dialogue and interactivity. "

Post-Boomer Generations Bookstore, page 1 "Getting a Clue about the PostModern World, Cluetrin makes a list of reccommended reading for a Lutheran person

Quote from the reviewer: The most applicable IMHO? 7, 14, 15, 20, 29, 37, 50, 75, 94.

A post to People about Ecunet and my introduction to Howard Rheingold via his book The Virtual Community

This is here the "updating" of my old stuff from the 1993-1997 Online Community Thesis sort of thing I was working on will take up, most likely with renewed vigor and thinking in light of this blogger/weblog phenomenon. I have started a group on Ecunet where I always throw my hat in the ring to see what it stirs up. My "portal" thoughts kind of ran their bit there, and its been a struggle to come up with new ways to put it, but theis Blogging thing.....there's something "portal-like" about it. I just read last night in "We've Got Blog" how somebody calls webblogs "microportals"........(update on 7-19....it's Cameron Barrett of Camworld in an article entitled Anatomy of a Weblog)

More over in "Online Community" section

Where I dump stuff about Online Community and comment where appropriate.....

The whole weblog thing I am learning and tracking now is a new twist (new for me anyway). Kinda makes my idea about portals being something to shoot for a different kind of idea......Now it's like, collaborative individual portals, and a community server idea makes for a BIG, probably pretty damn useful one, since it consists of stuff people have been researching on their own.....and when one person's particular finds get added to another's, and they trade gaps in both, knowledge is spread.

This blog will be put under "My Interests", whatever that means.

In that case, my Interests are: Online Communications in the Church, or Theological Community online. This present interest in "blogging" is the latest curiosity, as I explore the various tools for participation in the worldwide conversation that is The Blog. Resistance is futile.