Category Archives: Geek

Everything in Moderation

Posted on September 30, 2003 by Ken

Recent conversations with friends about web communities got me thinking about the arguments against open dialog. Initially, these paragraphs were going to find a home in my ongoing “Best Practices” guide to religious web communities, but the essay turned out … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts on Web Community

Posted on September 25, 2003 by Ken

The Christian is to be a demonstration of the existence of God. But if we as individual Christians, and as the church, act on less than a personal relationship to other men, where is the demonstration that God the Creator … Continue reading →

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Web Community with Depth

Posted on September 23, 2003 by Ken

I’ve been doing some research lately on what form a church web presence should take. Here are some interesting reads that I’ve found along the way. Jordon Cooper: Technology and the Church. Outreach Marketing personifies the analog worldview that the … Continue reading →

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Passive Research: Media Hosting

Posted on September 19, 2003 by Ken

A friend of mine called me today asking about media hosting on the web–a subject with which I have had absolutely no experience. Essentially, he has a high-quality audio recording of a sermon that he’d like to distribute on the … Continue reading →

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Windows Explorer Alternative

Posted on September 16, 2003 by Ken

It’s a simple and stupid problem. I have all of these MP3 files of varying artists stuffed into a Music folder, and now I want to sort them into subfolders. The easiest way to get it done, it would seem, … Continue reading →

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A Note to Comment Spammers

Posted on September 9, 2003 by Ken

You’ve come up with a brilliant scheme in order to make some fast cash, but your inimitable brilliance is stunted by the fact that you can’t come up with a marketing gimmick. How, oh, how will you reach your audience? … Continue reading →

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CSS Mini-Tabs

Posted on September 7, 2003 by Ken

…I dunno–I kinda like ‘em. (Courtesy of Dan Cederholm)

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Search Our Story with Firebird

Posted on August 30, 2003 by Ken

One of the nice things about writing a weblog is that it becomes a useful resource full of your thoughts and ideas over time–a searchable diary, of sorts. I realized this when I went back to search for something I … Continue reading →

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The Road to Section 508

Posted on August 23, 2003 by Ken

Well, this was inevitable: Our Story is now Section 508 compliant. That means that people with disabilities are better able to explore this site due to slight tweaks here and there in our code. If this sounds esoteric to you, … Continue reading →

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Speaking of New Features

Posted on August 13, 2003 by Ken

Well, glad that that‘s settled. It’s been so frustrating having the site down over the past week because there’s so much stuff I’ve wanted to blog about. Vacationing in rainy North Carolina and an over-night Linux install of Apache, PHP, … Continue reading →

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