My submission for Photo Friday’s Insignificant.
August, 2007:
Founders at Work
The book Founders at Work arrived in the mail yesterday and I dived right into it. The book is a series of interviews of founders like Blogger, SixApart, Adobe, Apple (Woz!), Hotmail, and a bunch of other startups that changed the way we live and interact. The underlying narative is: entrepreneurship is all about tactics, [...]
Contextless Links
The Ikea Badge of Merit For a position only second in importance to the Prime Minister, the Canadian Curling Association names a new CEO Republicans, weary of fighting with Democrats, turn on one of their own. Live and Let Live: It is a process that can be characterised as the deliberate abstaining from the use [...]
Attack Dogs of Christendom
Christianity Today on those websites to attack other elements in the church. David Aiken asks, “Is this how to bring grace and savor to a crumbling civilization?” The angriest websites are those belonging to small, but disturbingly visible, fundamentalist Protestant groups outraged that fellow Protestants appear to be holding out a welcoming hand to Catholics [...]
Truscott Aquitted
One of the best arguments for keeping the death penalty abolished in Canada The Ontario Court of Appeal has acquitted Steven Truscott of murder in the death of Lynne Harper 48 years ago, saying the conviction was a miscarriage of justice. In a ruling Tuesday, a five-judge panel unanimously decided to quash the conviction stemming [...]
Wisdom Wants To Be Free
I remember reading with great interest about the idea of the Disseminary when AKMA and Trevor started posting about it a couple of years ago. As the idea evolved, I started to think more and more about new ways of theological education in my local context and in many ways, it influenced the formation of [...]
How Twitter Will Change How Business Communicates (again)
Robert Scoble on how Twitter is changing how we communicate with each other. Twitter’s basic idea has proven so popular that others have copied its premise and added features. Jaiku lets me include blog posts, my link blog, and more along with my mini posts. Pownce users can send files to one another, as well [...]
