Not a surprise there, right?

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4. Joanna from Joanna Muses
5. Brynte from Amen.se

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Mashable and a few other blogs have been sporting these monsterous advertisements of recent and I find it extremely annoying.

And I can’t imagine that I’m alone in this boat, right? What if the 8BIT properties started rocking these behemoths?

Would you like us more or less? How much grace do you extend to online properties and their experiments with advertising?

I think a consistent hopeful outlook that we can, indeed, change the world, is a good thing to have.

It’s easier when you’re surrounded with a team that believes it too. Check this video after the jump.

Things are happening fast now eh?

Check the video of Steve Jobs talking about “copying and stealing” after the jump:

How does this apply to us in ministry? Does it?

It is amazing to see how information is updated, changed, shared, or for that matter consumed. It is light years ahead of what it was 3 years ago. This was made obvious to me the other day when I heard that Corey Haim had passed away. Corey Haim is best known for his numerous collaborations with Corey Feldman, the pair being dubbed “The Two Coreys”.

It wasn’t the breaking news that shocked me; it was that his Wikipedia page had been changed 5 minutes after the announcement of his death.

Fast.

In college any time we had a paper to work on that needed to be cited with references the professor would always say, “And Wikipedia is not a reliable source.”

No matter how many times I heard that, I still referenced Wikipedia. Why? Because from my perspective it was reliable and it made sense.

And yet none of my professors would acknowledge it as a legitimate reference. The technology age is rapidly growing and the way we get information continues to change.

CNET.com has said:

“Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us.”

Information has become a community event; that is the beauty of Wikipedia. It is a resource that is managed by millions of people who police each other and yet work together to keep things at the highest level of integrity and honesty.

I wonder how this would look in the Church?

My vision: A community of believers that is moving together in pursuit of the highest level of integrity and honesty with complete transparency and openness. Ultimately, where trust can be established.

Of course, this is very counter to what most businesses are hoping to achieve.

Check out a 2 minute clip of them speaking after the jump. Note that the original version was almost impossible to hear so I got some help from Brett who did some quick audio editing.

Thanks!

One thing I can almost certainly imagine that happened was having to clarify what “results” means in the context of their organization and model because “results” could mean “profits” for most people.

Great stuff. Anyone have some notes from the session?

Apture hopes to remedy that, or at least give an alternative and enables external links to now load contextually within the site. This includes both media (video and images) and text links:

Looks pretty neat, and I’ve already seen it on a number of people’s blogs.

There are also a number of plugins for most platforms for simple integration.

I personally will not be using it but that shouldn’t stop you!

Check it out if you’re interested.

What are your thoughts?

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Simple, right? Oh, and did we answer your question from last week? Let us know.

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