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		<title>the easiest side of the easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am revisiting, after too long a separation, Ranier Maria Rilke&#8217;s slim volume Letters to a Young Poet. This passage, penned just over 100 years ago, brings into tighter focus how we have, with little discernible controversy, allowed the value of ease to take its relatively secure place among the core values of our age: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=389</link>
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		<title>easily shot down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting findings described in NewScientist piece entitled &#8220;Cosy social networks &#8216;are stifling innovation&#8217;&#8221; Bold ideas are typically incompletely formed when first conceived and easily shot down by criticism. Hence, they emerge more readily in communities in which individuals work mostly in small and relatively isolated groups, giving their ideas time and space to mature. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=384</link>
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		<title>NT Wright on the use and abuse of new media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NT Wright on Blogging/Social Media from Bill Kinnon on Vimeo.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=383</link>
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		<title>indulging in the illusion of activism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Washington Post article explores whether the appearance of activism on social media sites links to any reality. A few apt excerpts: &#8220;Click-through activism&#8221; is the term used by Chris Csikszentmihályi, the co-director of MIT&#8217;s Center for Future Civic Media to describe the participants who might excitedly flit into an online group and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=379</link>
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		<title>what&#8217;s in it for me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A blog entry over at The Center for Future Civic Media speaks to the phenomenon of token activism in the online environment and offers these thoughts from Matthew Zachary, founder and CEO of I&#8217;m Too Young for This!, an online community and non-profit for young adult cancer survivors: The youth culture is an overly skeptical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=376</link>
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		<title>being there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something to chew on from from don&#8217;t eat the fruit. A taste: This inability to perform something so basic to being human reshapes what we value in the online world. Instead of presense [sic], we tend to value words in posts, links, and replies. Being present in the real world doesn’t require anything new or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=372</link>
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		<title>celebrity worship service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Challies offers a sobering analysis of the memorial service of Michael Jackson, including this observation: Words and phrases invoked God and used the Christian lexicon but without any reference to the gospel, the true gospel, the gospel that saves. Lost men declared to other lost men untruths about the god they wish for, not the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=366</link>
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		<title>NYT on tweeting in church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times gets around to reporting on the tweeting in church phenomenon. Not surprisingly, it does so&#8211;like the rest&#8211;with little in the way of nuance. Those critical of the use of Twitter in the liturgical setting are portrayed as motivated by fear or desire to maintain control. Little consideration is given to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=364</link>
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		<title>faster down the wrong path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A telling bit of data offered in a recent post concerning the use of new media for marketing purposes: Twitter and Facebook broke the news about the death of Michael Jackson, while the mainstream media was still scrambling and the mainstream search engines were oblivious. In other words, new media leapt into action to provide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=359</link>
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		<title>alienating people critical of the status quo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an interview published in byFaith Magazine, Ken Meyers, former NPR commentator and long time voice and mind of Mars Hill Audio Journal speaks to one common consequence of Christians uncritically pursuing relevance to the surrounding culture: So when, in the interest of evangelism, Christians give the status quo the benefit of the doubt, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=354</link>
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		<title>&#8220;false sense of participation&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting analysis of the role of the Internet in the 2008 Presidential elections. One key observation: In our analysis of nationally-representative survey data, in comparison to traditional newspaper reading and &#8220;real world&#8221; political discussion, online media use had limited impacts on learning and on actual political participation. Perhaps worse, despite limited gains in knowledge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=351</link>
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		<title>&#8220;not more machinery or better&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Power through Prayer, by E. M. Bounds (1835-1913): We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=348</link>
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		<title>&#8220;the church should not lag behind&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this blog entry on Media\Outreach and, based upon the featured photo ([previously] included below), assumed it viewed the church + Twitter phenomenon with some skepticism. Alas. Once again, I found articulated the rarely questioned premise of so many arguments as to the urgency of the Church&#8217;s adoption of some new technology: While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=338</link>
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		<title>&#8220;standards for technological innovation&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a piece entitled &#8220;Why I Am Not Going To Buy A Computer,&#8221; published originally in Harper&#8217;s and later in the compendium What Are People For?, Wendell Berry sets forth his personal criteria for the adoption of new technology. To make myself as plain as I can, I should give my standards for technological innovation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=333</link>
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		<title>technology defined</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Technology is a word that describes something that doesn&#8217;t work yet.&#8221; &#8211; Douglas Adams]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=331</link>
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		<title>The Onion strikes again: &#8220;Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another gem from The Onion.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=325</link>
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		<title>Horton on Osteen: &#8220;my happiness vs. God&#8217;s holiness&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Horton offers an excerpt from his Joel Osteen and the Glory Story: A Case Study.  I offer an excerpt from the excerpt: This gospel of &#8220;submission,&#8221; &#8220;commitment,&#8221; &#8220;decision,&#8221; and &#8220;having a personal relationship with God&#8221; fails to realize, first of all, that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=318</link>
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		<title>&#8220;we live not from work&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our activity can promise us everything and make us forget God. Therefore God commands us to rest from our work. It is not work that supports us but God alone; we live not from work, but from God alone. . . . The Sabbath rest is the visible sign that human beings live by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=313</link>
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		<title>&#8220;noise, hurry and crowds&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in &#8216;muchness&#8217; and &#8216;manyness,&#8217; he will rest satisfied.&#8221; - Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=311</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Worship vs Concert&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog entry from Worship through Visual Media offers some sense of the extent to which the debate over new media in the Church is premised on sketchy assumptions concerning the nature and purpose of worship. There is nothing wrong (in my opinion) with playing a tasteful main stream song in a service (if it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=305</link>
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		<title>advance&#8230;and retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I have not had an opportunity to look at the materials from the Advance conference (subtitled: &#8220;Resurgence of the Local Church: A Conference About the Power of God&#8217;s Gift to His People&#8211;The Church&#8221;) that took place in Durham earlier this month, I stumbled upon these thoughts from Patrick Mitchell&#8217;s June 10th blog entry and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=285</link>
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		<title>flowing robes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A point overlooked with surprising regularity as churches scramble to reach the chronically wired: &#8220;Simply put, the bar for entry into the online church is too high. I suspect, though could not prove, that the barriers result in online congregations composed of upper-middle class millenials, Gen-Xers, and boomers.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=282</link>
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		<title>seedy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin dusts off his blue corduroy Future Farmers of America jacket and shares a few lessons from agriculture with How big is your farm? Some people would have you spend a little time on each social network, run ads in ten or fifteen media, focus on one hundred major markets and spend time on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=270</link>
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		<title>&#8220;We have lingered in the chambers&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At n+1,  Benjamin Kunkel offers an insightful examination of three recently published books on culture and media, Naomi S. Baron&#8217;s  Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, Henry Jenkins&#8217;s Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Lee Siegel&#8217;s Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. (I confess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=267</link>
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		<title>&#8220;too cool?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I once again violated my personal rule against dabbling in the comments sections of other sites to weigh in (as &#8220;Matt&#8221;) on this piece over at brandstorming.com. The gist of my input: We too often seek to convince others that we and our God are &#8220;cool.&#8221; It is far more important that we reflect the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediumdeep.com/?p=260</link>
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