Month: September 2008

Well there goes years of my life working on my thesis about the early years of the Jesus movement in the first century CE…

best of craigslist : Autographed copy of the Bible – $1,000,000,000 OBO: This book was entrusted to me by the Knights of Templar, they borrowed it from Our Savior sometime between 28 and 32 AD and forgot to give it back. It was one of those things where they said they’d return it in a week, but then they didn’t get around to reading it right away. And you know how you always feel bad returning a book you haven’t read, especially when the lender asks you what you thought of it. So in trying to avoid an awkward moment with the Alpha and Omega, they hung onto it until they had more time. Well that time turned into about 2000 years, and it got mixed in with some other books and made it into a yard sale box.

Back to the drawing board…

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Walter Brueggemann’s Theology of the Old Testament
is an amazing work.

I’m reading it for a seminar at Gardner-Webb now and every page is a tiny apocalypse in my brain.

I’m working on a paper response to the work now and will post when I’m done.

Highly recommended.

So, it looks like I’m out of the GeekCast and RedHatBlueHat podcasts. I had a blast, but all things must pass. They’re probably looking for another drummer, so if you’re interested in joining, get in touch with one of the GeekCastles.

I’ll still be doing podcasting here and Jeff Doak and I will be reviving the Jeff and Sam Show soon.

In the meantime, thanks for everything…

More soon.

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So awesome.

I talked about the Laconica open micro-blogging platform last week and how the real time track nature of distro’s like Identi.ca make the platform so powerful.

On top of that base, the one feature that has fascinated me recently has been the ability to federate communities and have them all communicate with each other.

For instance, popular tech pundit and prolific podcast Leo Laporte has opened up the TWiT Army, and it seems to be incredibly popular among his fans and followers.

The amazing thing is that even though I’m on Identi.ca, I can track keywords and communicate with people on TWiT Army. Think about that for a second. Twitter can’t do that. And 14 years ago, users of CompuServe and Prodigy couldn’t email each other.

Micro-blogging is quickly following the path of email in terms of platform development.

What I’m waiting for is the TechCrunch Community or Chris Pirillo’s band of followers or Kevin Rose and the Diggnation to install a Laconica instance. How about Slashdot or Google Code developers? Mac fans of the world federate?

I think it’s going to happen sooner than later, and when it does it will open a lot of people’s eyes as to how similar micro-blogging has become to those other protocols we take for granted today like POP and IMAP.