Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Better Than Fiction

Has our culture lost the ability to foster honest public discourse? Sometimes it appears so. One blogger had this to say after one of the campaign debates last fall: What is it about politics that tends to reduce normal, presumably at least quasi-thoughtful journalists (and others) to insult-slinging,...
March 18th, 2009 | Blogging, Culture, Politics | Read More

Joe Carter’s Commonplace

I hope the new team will forgive me for jumping in, but I want to promote my new tumbleblogging venture, Joe Carter’s Commonplace. Since I do most of my long-form writing a Culture11, I needed a place to post 33 Things-type material. I update it daily so please stop by and check in often. (Not...
December 16th, 2008 | Blogging | Read More

Attention, bloggers!

Are you trying to launch the next best place in the blogosphere? Hoping to attract a few new readers? Or perhaps just experiencing writer’s block (blogger’s block?) and looking for some new material? Boy have I been there. That’s why I was so excited when Thomas Nelson CEO Michael...
November 6th, 2008 | Blogging, Book Reviews | Read More

Possibility Junkies

By Ken Myers Ideas, we are frequently told, have consequences. We are less often encouraged to reflect on the equally significant if more elusive relationship of ideas to their antecedents. Ideas come from somewhere, and they are able to take up residence in our lives because they find friendly surroundings....
October 6th, 2008 | Blogging, Culture, Religion | Read More

Culture11 and the Future of EO

A long time ago I learned that it was vanity to apologize for not blogging. As one longtime blogger famously said, “I hate to be the one to tell you … but we will survive. Really. With support of my family, I think I will be able to get by the next day or two without an update from ‘YourDailyNanoBlogPundit.com.” Still,...
September 1st, 2008 | Blogging | Read More

Make Your Message Be What Matters:
A Lesson from a McDonald’s Happy Meal

The following guest post is by Abraham Piper, web content editor for Desiring God ministries and author of one of my favorite new blogs, 22 Words. My son brought home a toy from McDonald’s yesterday. It’s a little plastic singer named “Hippie Harmony” that plays a 6-note tune...
May 6th, 2008 | Blogging, Media | Read More

Chappe’s Progeny:
In Praise of Linkers

[Note: A version of this post originally aired in April 2005.] The towers looked like legless stick figures, waving to the neighbors across the French landscape. Spaced six miles apart and stretching between the major cities of France, the optical telegraph system devised by Claude Chappe became the...
April 24th, 2008 | Blogging | Read More

The 2008 EO/Wheatstone Academy Symposium

While the current political cycle has sharpened our focus on the role of religion in the public square, we often fail to reflect on the role of the public square upon religion. Increasingly, when Christians engage others in public forums, we do so using tools that we did not develop. Whether through...
April 14th, 2008 | Blogging, Culture, Symposium | Read More

The ’1000 True Fans’ Book Project

This week Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails released his new, four-part instrumental album Ghosts I-IV, Rather than distribute the album through a record label, Reznor is selling it at a variety of price points from his own website. The $300 “ultra deluxe edition”, which was limited to 2500...
March 6th, 2008 | Blogging | Read More

The On Day One Project

The Better World Fund, a group which “works to build a stronger relationship between the United States and the United Nations”, has started the On Day One project. The purpose of the site is to provide a platform for gathering and sharing “ideas about what the next president can do...
January 29th, 2008 | Blogging | Read More