June 2009
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BatchGeocode →
A great service that will geocode addres databases in tab-separated format. See also: USC’s Geocoding resources and their Batch Geocoding service.
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Noli Lynn: Social and civic responsibility--and... →
Quote: “There are some situations where blogging can be a real form of activism; you can see that both in the way countries like Iran try to contain their bloggers, and in the way politicians in the US try to appeal to netroots. But, on the other hand, for a small time blogger like myself, a lot of the time it feels more like a hobby, even a time sink, chatting with online friends, than real...
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How disruptive technologies disrupt (why... →
By Michael Nielsen:
A good example is the popular technology blog TechCrunch, by most measures one of the top 100 blogs in the world. Started by Michael Arrington in 2005, TechCrunch has rapidly grown, and now employs a large staff. Part of the reason it’s grown is because TechCrunch’s reporting is some of the best in the technology industry, comparable to, say, the technology reporting in the...
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“Mark was the self-righteous, Bible-thumping prig who pressed for Bill Clinton’s...”
– Maureen Dowd on South Carolina Governor Mark “Marco” Sanford
Not Afraid Angelina on scattered Quaker book... →
I had spent the evening wondering if this is what would become of my library when I’m gone - divvied up and donated by my heirs. But then I decided that it was fitting. Perhaps when book lovers die,…
Dan Evans on guns and jesus and guns in churches →
Whether followers of the teachings of Jesus must be pacifists is a good question, but is not the question I want to address today. The question that concerns me today is whether a true Christian…
Pam Ferguson: Women in ministry should not be an... →
She told me she felt seminary was a bubble and now as she entered the real world she should have been prepared for this opposition to women in ministry. Her next comment after being surprised that…
Trying out Tweetboard →
Description: “Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what’s being...
Peterson T on the "Concerned" name of so many... →
What I like most about these names is that they don’t tie us down to ONE issue. Sure these groups focus on LGBT issues (more GL–in that order–and to a much lesser degree BT) but who’s to say that…
First photos from the FGC Gathering →
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QuakerQuaker on Facebook →
Why would a social media network have a page on another social media network? Good question, but hundreds of people have signed up for the QuakerQuaker Fan Page on Facebook. And why not? It’s just as good a place to share some of our favorite Quaker media as anywhere else.
As of midnight, the fan page has an easy to remember URL. Check it out at: http://www.facebook.com/quakerquaker
If...
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FGC Gathering on QuakerQuaker #fgc09 →
For those keeping track, this is the week of FGC’s Gathering. A bunch of the extended QuakerQuaker family is over there and they is covering the tweets, photos and blog posts coming out of there.
Favorites so far: Peterson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name (thanks to name tags)” and Jeanne’s first photo collection. There’s also an FGC Gathering tag and feed on...
Beautiful Firefox Theme: Chromifox Extreme →
I’ve been using Chromifox Basic for awhile but this i really well done: “An Extreme coat of Chrome for Firefox. Chromifox Extreme, a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3.5 inspired by the…
Another Front vs Democracy: Honduran President Is... →
NYTimes: “President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits. In the first military coup in Central America since the end of the cold war, soldiers stormed the presidential palace in the capital, Tegucigalpa, early in the morning, disarming the presidential guard, waking Mr. Zelaya and putting him...
Orchard Spider (Leucauge venusta) →
Found on laundry line, 6/09
Peterson's going where "everybody knows your name"... →
The FGC event is a little like going to Narnia, an altetnate reality where they do folk dancing, discuss global warming and sit around quietly waiting for something to happen, or not.
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Blueberry Festival in Hammonton this Sunday! →
Vineland Daily Journal on this weekends’ Red, White and Blueberry Festival happening about 800 yards from my house!
Just call it a little bit of Americana — with a few million blueberries thrown in for good measure.
triggerAd(1,PaginationPage,13); The 23rd annual Red, White and Blueberry Festival in Hammonton, sponsored by the Greater Hammonton Chamber of Commerce, will be held...
listening to "Blue Blue Heart - Bic Runga" →
A live version from Bic of this perfect upbeat bittersweet confection.
Seeker65 @davidinindy reviews "The Unlikely... →
It’s sometimes hard reading, dealing with homophobia, Intellectually indefensible young-earth Creationism, guest speakers like Sean Hannity and Karl Rove, following a 46 page code of conduct that…
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Camden Diocese mega high school project on hold →
Like so much else in the slow economy, a regional Catholic high school for Gloucester County is going to have to wait. “The project is on hold because of the recession,” said Andrew Walton, spokesman…
Infinite Ocean Daniel takes on the Atonement →
So why am I attempting to deal with such a historically destructive and impossibly difficult theological doctrine? Because how one views this doctrine, dramatically affects how one views God, others,…
Jennifer M: Children in Worship →
We teased out the subtlety of joyful, connected noises versus disruptive noises from children who are feeling disconnected. The happy, babbling baby or wiggling of a generally contented child are…
We needed the Supreme Court to tell us this? →
NYTimes: “The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a school’s strip search of an Arizona teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal.”
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How to tie ties videos →
I don’t have to put on a tie all that often but when I do I always have that moment when I’m wondering about knots. I have my own knot and I’m never even quite sure if it’s an “official” one or not. For awhile I depended on a great Youtube video tutorial for a Half-Windsor but as I was late rushing out the door one morning to an important (tie-worthy) job...
“I love the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of...”
– Republican Love Letter
“When I heard how Iranians were using my beloved creation for their own means I...”
– Jack Dorsey, Twitter Creator ;)
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Paul Buckley reports on recent survey for Friends... →
Nearly two-thirds of those who responded were women and the average age was about 63 years old. Eighty percent of the respondents have children, but as would be expected for people this age, only about one in six reports having a child under the age of 18. Younger readers expressed much greater interest in articles on the environment, race relations, controversial issues among Friends, current...
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Neobaptist Gordon on on Religion in Generation F →
Gordon points to a Wall Street Journal blog post by Gary Hamel on “Managing the Facebook Generation,” which sounds like a terrible exercise but actually has some good advice about how 20th Century organizations have to adapt if they’re going to be relevant to the online culture. Gordon reflects what this means for churches:
This explains why I often struggle so much with the...
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Find Quaker Meetings & Churches by state or... →
Useful resource. The most complete list of Quakers churches and meetings in the United States and Canada.
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Must read: Do we still need denominational... →
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Increasingly I’ve come to wonder if churches are, to some extent, analogous to record labels and newspapers. The latter two business built their limited resources and high barriers to wealth; printing newspapers and promoting hit records is an expensive game. But, the Craigslist, blogs, DAWs and MySpace have become deal-breakers — especially if you don’t lay awake at night dreaming of...
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FOR Blog: Nonviolence in Iran →
Reflections from someone who traveled to Iran last December: “When I was there, I felt the energy of young people that wanted and needed change. Nearly two out of every three people is under thirty. Many of them highly educated, including many women. A hope for change is what brought millions of women and men to the ballot boxes. A hope for change brings these same people to the streets now....
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Mark Wutka: What's wrong with evangelism? Why is... →
For Friends, the gospel was not simply a message because they understood by experience Paul’s description of the gospel as “the power of God unto salvation”. Preaching the gospel was Spirit-led, Spirit-filled preaching that awakened people to the Light of Christ within them - to turn them from darkness to light (a phrase from Paul that George Fox often quoted). I would guess that...
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Callid and Kristina invite us to shape their... →
As part of our class we want to give students an opportunity to hear your voice and thoughts too! Over the next six weeks, we’ll post a new survey pertaining to the next class topic every week. The questions are intended to serve at least two purposes. First, they are information gathering questions so that we can get input from the wider Quaker world. Second, we hope that these questions...
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LizOpp shares the process behind the new Quaker... →
What follows below are answers to what I suspect will be frequently asked questions regarding the creation of the book Writing Cheerfully on the Web: A Quaker Blog Reader.