Thursday, September 07, 2006
The Gutenberg Blog Scavenger Hunt
We are in the middle of an awakening and a renaissance. You might have heard about it. When Gutenberg created the movable type press, he made information more available and accessible. Arguably, that revolution of technology in 1447 served as a catalyst that spread renaissance ideas across Western Civilization.The Internet has catapulted us into an information age that is doing the same thing. It’s old news really—harkening back to dotcom prophesies in the 1990s—but it’s gotten new spin recently with the Web 2.0 hype about blog marketing and social media. Christian bloggers are even having a convention.
I write this because some of my friends have questioned my sanity of late. I start talking about blogging as worship, and they get these worried looks on their faces. So I’m sending all of them on . . .
A BLOG SCAVENGER HUNT!
Start by clicking on "Comments" at the bottom of this post. Keep the comment window open for recording your scavenger hunt findings.
1) Find a one-sentence nugget of truth about faith and daily life from the comments on RealLivePreacher.com. Paste it into your comment window with the URL or a link if you know html. (If you are interested, read more about Gordon Atkison here.)
2) Find a one-sentence nugget of truth about faith and daily life from the comments on Jesus Creed. Paste it into your comment window with the URL or a link if you know html. (If you are interested, read more about Scot McKnight here.)
3) Find a one-sentence nugget of truth about faith and daily life on It Takes a Church. Paste it into your comment window with the URL or a link if you know html. (If you are interested, read more about Tod Bolsinger here.)
Dig Deeper?
If you want to dig deeper into the strange world of blogging, marketing, and "movable byte" publication, take a look at these links, articles, and posts:
GodBlogCon
Influential Interactive Marketing's 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization
CopyBlogger's Social Proof: Herd It Through the Grapevine and Viral Marketing
Wired Magazine’s Monkey Bites: Web 2.0 Champions and Stinkers
SEO Book's 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity
SEOmoz's 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
HillCountryWriter Categories: Blogging Church stuff
Technorati Tags: blogging blogs church Christianity religion God Jesus
Comments:
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Sorry - there is more than one sentence and I wasn't sure what you meant by putting the URL, but here ya go. I hope I win!
"A person starts with the raw materials given to her by God or biology or chance or however you want to think about it. What she does with her advantages or disadvantages is her choice. This choosing is a defining moment for humans."
http://www.reallivepreacher.com/node/797#comment
"In some respects it’s easier being a women and just stopping at the walls that have been constructed over time by ‘religion’ and justifying my lack of service as ‘impossible’. Am I willing to scale those walls, or just stand by? Time will tell."
http://www.jesuscreed.org/?p=1424#comments
"How can the Church do better at producing disciples who are not trying to keep up with the Jones across the Pew and down the street? Where are the servant leaders?"
http://bolsinger.blogs.com/weblog/2006/09/a_place_or_a_wa.html#comments
"A person starts with the raw materials given to her by God or biology or chance or however you want to think about it. What she does with her advantages or disadvantages is her choice. This choosing is a defining moment for humans."
http://www.reallivepreacher.com/node/797#comment
"In some respects it’s easier being a women and just stopping at the walls that have been constructed over time by ‘religion’ and justifying my lack of service as ‘impossible’. Am I willing to scale those walls, or just stand by? Time will tell."
http://www.jesuscreed.org/?p=1424#comments
"How can the Church do better at producing disciples who are not trying to keep up with the Jones across the Pew and down the street? Where are the servant leaders?"
http://bolsinger.blogs.com/weblog/2006/09/a_place_or_a_wa.html#comments
Comment posted by 
: 6:26 PM
: 6:26 PM
Thanks to Amy and Shep for posting! When I explained the game to my daughter she immediately asked, "What does the winner get?"
Leave it to a five-year-old to point out the obvious.
If five more people comment, I'll let readers vote on whoever they think found the coolest "nuggest of truth." I promise to send a cool gift in the mail to the winner, Camy Tang style.
Leave it to a five-year-old to point out the obvious.
If five more people comment, I'll let readers vote on whoever they think found the coolest "nuggest of truth." I promise to send a cool gift in the mail to the winner, Camy Tang style.
1. From his video (6 minutes) on the Church."...these people became so convinced of the love and presence of God that they beca.. Ah, they were changed"
2. If one trusts in this Stumbling Stone [Jesus], one will not be put to shame.
3.
Jesus is risen, therefore his followers have a new job to do.
And what is that new job? To bring the life of heaven to birth in actual, physical, earthly reality...
Deeper? It's already taken 2 hours! :-)
2. If one trusts in this Stumbling Stone [Jesus], one will not be put to shame.
3.
Jesus is risen, therefore his followers have a new job to do.
And what is that new job? To bring the life of heaven to birth in actual, physical, earthly reality...
Deeper? It's already taken 2 hours! :-)
leslea, I'm glad you like the blogs on publishing! Those have been less frequent lately because I'm building a new blog just on that topic. It will go live in a few weeks if all goes according to plan...
l.l. barkat, Goodbye Gutenberg sounds very interesting. Especially since I taught English so long. I still remember the controversy when we adopted new textbooks a few years ago. It was clear that the presses were designing literature books with magazine readers in mind. The design/art did make the works more appealing.
And Mark, man, I hope those two hours were fun reading, not compulsory! RLP, Jesus Creed, and Bolsinger are some of my favorite blogs. You're the winner so far!
Thanks to all three of you for reading. (leslea, I've got more publishing posts in the pipeline. Check back next week for thoughts on agents.)
l.l. barkat, Goodbye Gutenberg sounds very interesting. Especially since I taught English so long. I still remember the controversy when we adopted new textbooks a few years ago. It was clear that the presses were designing literature books with magazine readers in mind. The design/art did make the works more appealing.
And Mark, man, I hope those two hours were fun reading, not compulsory! RLP, Jesus Creed, and Bolsinger are some of my favorite blogs. You're the winner so far!
Thanks to all three of you for reading. (leslea, I've got more publishing posts in the pipeline. Check back next week for thoughts on agents.)
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