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New theoblogical.org domain will be operational soon

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:15:10 GMT

comcast is back up, but I will be setting up www.theoblogical.org hopefully in the next few hours (not working yet, waiting for it to propogate). I wish I could edit that parking page so that I could redirect users to the actual site until I notice it's up and get it switched over to point at the IP address.

TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 04:25:11 GMT

Mob Rule
By Mark Frauenfelder, Sep 27 2002

An interview with Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs, a book about the next social revolution.

theoblogical.org is on the way! Anytime now

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:14:08 GMT

www.theoblogical.org is purchased and will be in effect sometime in the next 24 hours! Cool!

Anybody have any suggestions/advice for how I might best make the switch and inform subscribers (besides the one obvious thing here, which is subscribers reading this when they pull it from my rss.xml subscription)?

I am certainly interested in keeping the Google hits coming. I seem to get a good deal of hits from Google searches on various things.

nathan_lott

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:05:41 GMT

nathan_lott__

an online column examining
politics and culture today

Nathan wrote an email and invited me to check things out. Looks like I'll be doing that.

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:51:31 GMT

to blogspot.com?

Martin's Radio Blog Flow on my article

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:32:21 GMT

Martin blogged this a couple of weeks ago:

My response: a view on God's revelation across cultures. [Dale Lature: Theoblogical]
I like this piece that Dale puts together.
4:53:14 PM Comment [0]
Checkout what Google suggests:
Values & Goals | About | Vancouver School of Theology America: Theology for Teens - Adolescents' values and aspirations ... Core Beliefs, Values, Theology Team Latin American bishops looking at theology from indigenous values Latin American bishops looking at theology from indigenous values

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 03:09:20 GMT

Anybody know these guys? http://ez-domainnameregistration.com

I'm looking for the best way to register myself.

Web host FTP is down - No updates

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 02:30:45 GMT

This sucks. Nobody is going to see this tonight , because comcast has locked me out of the ftp account where I upload my blog pages (mywebpages.comcast.net/dlature). Makes me really wish I had gotten in on the Salon blog deal (which started within a month after I bought Radio). Radio, WS_FTP, IE, Dreamweaver, all FAIL to connect. I need to figure out how to get this stuff moved and notices sent out. How does one do this? How do you move a blog , and keep what piddly-little connections (which are all valuable to me as I seek to build a small inter-blogular community). HOw do I get all those wonderful Google hits to start reflecting a new location? I am going to move my stuff to a larger, more robust web hosting area. Instead of mywebpages.comcast.net/dlature, this is (as you know, else you wouldn't even be here....) www.edgehill.org/dlature

What I really want is www.theoblogical.org. Wonder what the woud be the best things to do to get me there?
(Later: I bought the domain name, and now just waiting for it to propogate)

Niehas Says Iraq attack could be a just war cause - I am not so sure.

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:51:29 GMT

John Niehas (of First Things) on NPR tonight talked about "just war", and he thinks Iraq is a "just cause" because it is "defenesive" in the sense that Iraq has "aggression" underway. I have questions about that, not that Saddam is most likely plotting something evil, because I can't dismiss that. I just caution against hasty action. There seems to be time to get all the parties involved.

Niehas , in his discussion of what constitutes "just war", zeroes in on how "defense" is considered one of the criteria for "just war". I do not advocate INACTION, but proactive steps to ascertain the probablity of real and immanent threat, and to bring the force of international consensus and pressure upon their "renewal" of compliance, and even impose more "stringent" and "urgent" requirements.

I am not unconvinced that Saddam should not be watched.......I'm sure he should be.....I am just not persuaded that military attack is the right next step at this moment.....I'm not too trusting of the U.S. tactics in carrying out these strikes.

CORPORATE STRATEGY: A PROGRESSION

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:34:16 GMT

A great blog from Eric Blair (slactivist):

CORPORATE STRATEGY: A PROGRESSION.

1. If it doesn’t get measured, it doesn’t get done.

2. If it doesn’t produce a measurement, it doesn’t get done.

3. If it doesn’t involve measuring, it doesn’t get done.

4. If it’s not measuring, it doesn’t get done.

5. Nothing gets done except for measuring

6. The undone is immeasurable.

7. We are immeasurably undone...

Wired 10.10: Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:01:20 GMT

I've been less diligent in the past couple of years in my perusal of WIRED when it arrives at my mailbox. A couple of nights ago, I noticed the article on Lessig in the back of the issue. And it's online , too. Comments forthcoming (or not).

Once a "right-wing lunatic," he's become a fire-breathing defender of Net values.

Ian White
Lawrence Lessig
In late 1997, after reading a profile of the super-brainy professor in the Harvard Law Bulletin, Judge Jackson had tapped Lessig to sort out the technical aspects of the case. "He was as knowledgeable as they come," says Jackson, who sits on the US District Court in DC. For the next two months, Lessig and his overqualified clerk, fellow Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain, worked almost nonstop to produce a report. Lessig's time logs, which document the 278 hours he spent on the case (billed at $250 per hour, a bargain rate for someone with his credentials), reveal only one day off: Christmas.

Some days he clocked 11 hours.

What the logs don't show is the quiet transformation Lessig had been undergoing, from a respected constitutional theorist into a fire-breathing defender of Net values. With the Microsoft case, he would be able to make his mark. ....

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 04:01:10 GMT

Remembering two inspirational stories from my early Chrsitian days: My Heart, Christ's Home, and In His Steps (which inspired the "What Would Jesus Do?" aka WWJD thing). It is so glaring to me today how both those stories so totally embody a "compartmentalization" of Jesus away from "life in the world".......that the question rarely gets asked in regards to say, the question of war against Iraq; like "Would Jesus lead a pre-emptive strike against Iraq, or even encourage us to be supportive of it?"

On Napster and the Church (from iggie's corner)

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:34:33 GMT

Iggie makes a good point :

I have been thinking a lot about Napster,Morpheus,and these other file sharing and peer to peer programs. They are organic. They are like a web of interconnected friends who link up to meet each others needs without anyone in charge. Each person filling anothers need. Another meeting the need of another. Isn't this is what church is supposed to be all about? Why have we fallen so short? The Church instead of using the resources of the people of God have sold out. | from Iggy

Smart Mobs: A Website and Weblog about Smart Mobs By Howard Rheingold: Home

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:24:36 GMT

» Table of Contents: The chapters of Smart Mobs, including summaries of each chapter and weblog entries for that chapter.
» Book Summary: A summary of the book
» Reviews and Articles: Links to outside evaluations of the book.
» Appearance Schedule: See Howard Rheingold in your area discussing the book and it's implications.
» Bibliography: Information about further reading of the information used in the creation of Smart Mobs.

WEBLOGSKY - review of Smart Mobs

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:22:59 GMT

"After stewing in the juices of virtual community and watching the emergence of various social networks over the last decade, Howard Rheingold thought hard about what he was seeing and came up with the concept of the smart mob. "Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive..." Howard sees a revolution and a rich field for innovation in the proliferation of digital technologies and the rapid free flow of information, but entrenched interests are trying to constrain new technologies in order to protect their interests. "

Weinberger on The spirituality of the web's architecture

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:10:21 GMT

David Weinberger posts on JOHO today:

Spirituality chat: "The transcript of a chat I did at spirituality.com on the topic "The Spirituality of the Web's Architecture" has been posted here. 10:28 PM | PermaLink "

This is promising of many various blog-spirations for me. I feel the end of a blogless funk arriving. This area is where the Web's connection into "getting us connected to the Clue-giving character of the web' and the "Need to get that clue from inside the theological community" meet. Thanks again Mr. Weinberger.

I'll be posting these upcoming blogs to my "Theoblogical" section in the hours ahead.