The problem with readers

When I started this blog I had exactly zero readers. After one year of intense writing and lots of growth, I have somewhere in the neighborhood of five readers. While my readership has grown a bit since then it creates issues. Like the fact that you guys actually read what I write and expect me [...]

Blogging habits

Over the weekend my mom commented I hadn’t been writing on my blog as much lately. I got to thinking about why and became interested in the blogging habits of others.
Often times when I go through challenging periods, I fall on one of two sides. On one side, blogging becomes an outlet for me to [...]

Because I really mean it

I probably won’t have a chance to post again before midnight so I thought I’d take a second to say happy new year. I truly do appreciate everyone who stops by here to read my ramblings.
Normally I have a series of posts leading up to the new year about the previous year’s doings and what [...]

The Pursuit

Just so you know, a big new idea is coming to the blog in 2009.

Social media circles

I’m curious about what social media circles you walk in.
I can group all my online friends into boxes. I do a lot of discussion among pastors and ministry types. I’m relatively active in the creative design and photography community. Recently I’ve been talking to a lot more people about social media itself.
The fun part is [...]

Blogs, ads and 37signals

I’ve never been a fan of ads on blogs. Not sure why, I’ve just never liked it.
With that said, you’ll notice these two new ads in the sidebar to the right.

So why give in and become a corporate shill?
1) If it ever amounts to enough money to even buy me lunch, I’ll be impressed.
2) I [...]

Two minor notes

1. I’m quickly approaching the 1,000th post on this blog. It should probably something more special than, say, this post. Ideas anyone?
2. We have a completely dead iPhone. Short of Jesus helping, it’s not coming back to life. So, help me dream up a particularly creative fate for it and I’ll video it and post [...]

My new Twitter policy

While Twitter has helped me connect with a bunch of great people, it’s also added a little clutter to my life. Once I started following north of 50 people it became too much to keep up with. So I’m only following 50 from here on out (well, 52, I can’t stop following Darth Vader or [...]

Help promote WeTheChurch.org

WeTheChurch.org had a great first day. We had a lot more people than I expected show up and had some serious prayer requests come in.
But now the hard part…
We need all the help we can get from the blogosphere to help create a community around WeTheChurch.org. We need you to blog it, podcast it, Twitter [...]

Pray for the launch

UPDATE: The site is now live. Read all about it here.
WeTheChurch.org will be launching Monday morning. Please pray that the launch will go smoothly (from the technical side) and that it would make an impact in the ministry world.
I’m really excited about the potential it has. Look for a lot more here on Monday about [...]

The 50 Hour Challenge

Go check out the 50 Hour Challenge on Anne’s blog.
Go give 10 bucks. It’s for a good cause.
That’s what, two cups of coffee? Come on.

The Great Sushi Experiment

Today is just the day of technology not being in my corner. First Mogulus.com didn’t work when we needed to go live and now the video on Viddler doesn’t want to embed in this post. Probably all me, but oh well.
Either way, the much anticipated video is now live and can be viewed here.
Honestly it [...]

Always have a back-up (throw up) plan

So Mogulus.com seems to be taking a long weekend and not working. With it being down, The Great Sushi Experiment will no longer be live. Sort of.
Here’s what we’re going to do. I’ve got Dave coming to the house at noon. We’ll record the show, eat some sushi, throw up in a bucket (maybe) and [...]

Creative Chaos: The creative location edition

Today’s Creative Chaos topic: Outside the office, where do we find our personal creativity?
Me? I’ve found the location doesn’t matter so much as who’s there. There is nothing that gets me in the creative mood better than sitting around a table with other creative people talking ideas.
So I guess my place is around a table [...]

Nice try

On Twitter today I revealed the site address for Magenta Squirrel. Only I did it on the Magenta Squirrel Twitter page, which at this point almost no one knows about. I threw it out there and let everyone know they could find it if they tried.
And shortly after a few people reached my blog by searching for [...]