After a few days of playing with comics I’ve made a plan for including these within my media mélange. I’ve created a new page: http://lingamish.com/comics and also a Facebook page: Lingamish Comics Page on Facebook. For those of you who subscribe to lingamish.com you should now no longer get inundated by weird scribbles and [...]

For my New Testament class this year I’ve decided to try developing a core of study materials for my students using Open Source online resources. Our current curriculum is based on some pretty thin course materials including translations of study guides and illegal photocopies of books. Intro and outline For [...]

A warning to all you who are considering starting your own self-hosted blog. It’s a lot of work. All that stuff that Blogger or WordPress does for you in the background is suddenly your job. The reason folks like myself do it is that we want more control, our own domain, our [...]

I know how this little guy feels. The more I chewed on the topic of digital asset management, or DARN as we conservative folks call it, the more it left a bad taste in my mouth. And finally the topic tipped over and crushed me. Nice extended metaphor, eh?!? I am a [...]

In 2010 I’m hoping to show my email who’s boss. Email is great for trading information but lousy for communicating and getting things done. Setting aside SPAM and FW for a moment, email is basically of two types: FYI and TODO. Trouble is that TODOs get lost in the pile. There’s no [...]

A very cool e-learning initiative at the University of British Columbia includes a group blog for students of the ETEC 521 course in the Masters of Educational Technology. A brief survey of the list of posts includes many interesting topics. http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec521/ Thanks to Tom for pointing this place out (and a link to my [...]

The truth is that blogging is “aliver” for me than it’s ever been. In recent months, blogging, Facebook and Twitter have been key to several real-life projects:

Wycliffe Discovery is sending a team to Mozambique next year because the director is a reader of my blog.
Thanks to a post on Better Bibles Blog, there is now [...]

I’m going to try to find a blogger or reader from every country. If you have a suggestion you can add it to the map.

For the time being I’m working on interesting bloggers in Africa.
View My tribe in a larger map

I’ve been looking for a nice way to organize all my electronic communication. When you add Twitter to Facebook to Skype to email you end up slightly twitchy. Here are some of the options I’ve tried and why they got flushed: iGoogle: Slow Pageflakes: Doesn’t work Netvibes: You can’t update [...]

Update: I’ve uploaded a new version that seems to have taken care of the mismatch between video and audio

Today I experimented with the new Windows Live Movie Maker. It seems to be a definite improvement on the previous version. You can download it here: http://download.live.com/moviemaker.

I’m hoping to send this video to our supporting churches so [...]

Note: As part of a unit on research methods, Hilary asked me to help our kids organize their online research. Here are some of my thoughts on the topic. The first rule of Internet research is: Never cite Wikipedia Wikipedia is not an information source itself but rather a starting point for [...]