TallSkinnyKiwi

Bloggers at emergent

This is the biggest list and i will add to it as you tell me who else is there in nashville.
If you cant go to the convention, you might as well experience it through the bloggers who will be there.
Michael Toy (best so far)
Adam Cleveland (also a good details man)
Lilly Lewin
Jen Lemen
Doug Pagitt
Jonny Baker
Charlie Porteous
Mark Riddle
Gareth (Moot)
Jay Vorhees
DJ Chaung oops - DJ Chuang
Harpstrings
Bob Carlton
(more added)
Mark
Aaron O

dan hughes interviewed

dan is the howard stern of theoblogians. i like the guy - he came to our wabi sabi event last year and we got to meet. but he does swear a lot (corrected), even in my comments - coop interviews him.

Emergent Convention - Nashville

How bummed i am that i cant be there. As you know, i was supposed to give a few seminars entitled "Forward Slash" -a 2-part series that dealt with ministry in a new media world. As it turned out, there was an accidental "slash" of my hand and i am all stitched up and unable to travel. At least you will get to meet Jonny Baker, who just VJ'ed a seminar at Grace Cathedral (San Francisco). Jonny's seminars are on the same time as mine were and I was feeling bad that some people would have to choose.
Those of you from England can hear "Forward Slash" in London at an event called Blah, May 25th. You can also read some material that i will post soon here.

David Crowder is leading worship and you should look out for VJ Travis also. Many of my friends are speaking - cant list them all, but if you want to meet some of them, then look out for Spencer Burke of The Ooze, Mark Miller, Joe Myers, Tim Conder Dan Kimball, Tim Keel Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt (who features in my article "Buffy The Backside Slayer"), Holly Rankin Zaher, Mark Scandrette (who i talked into coming to San Francisco in 1998) and Chris Seay (who talked me into coming to Austin in 1998), Brian MacLaren, Alan Roxburgh
There were also some guys that i was looking forward to meeting - Brennan Manning, Robert Webber and Dave Tomlinson, who i should have met by now since he also lives in London.

Especially Brennan Manning. Dang it! I'm going to miss out on meeting Brennan Manning. Brennan Almighty. Dangit. Once we were driving through New Orleans and we thought of stopping in and seeing him. But we figured he would be too busy to see us, him being famous, and us being peons. but hey - you guys will get to meet him in person. The Great and Humble Brennan Manning.
Am I rambling?
Lots of bloggers will be there in Nashiville - who has a long list of them???????

Stan Parks/WorldconneX

Emergent Convention starts tomorrow and I was supposed to be sharing a room with Stan Parks. We were going to share the cost of the room - but now i guess he has to put out some extra money. Now i feel bad.
Stan has been working overseas in Indonesia for a long time, but now is part of a missions start-up called WorldconneX, backed up and blessed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas - same hyper cool people that have been helping to cover my back for the last 5 years.
So if you are in Nashville this week and you see Stan, buy him a coffee or a meal. Or maybe someone out there wants to share a room with him - let me know (males only need apply)

Mystery Worshipper at Hillsong

The mystery worshipper at Hillsong London had a very similar experience to our family's visit earlier this year.

Visualize World News

Newsmap lets you visualize patterns in world news rather than just read the details. God is in the details. But He is also in the patterns.

Hanging with Euro VJs

Dude. I made it on to the Arkaos web site. Now i have really arrived.
Where is my mother??????
This is me, wearing my grey hat and thrift store lab coat at the London Virgin Megastore last week. The VJ's were having some difficulties with the Oxygen 8 Midi and i was offering my wise counsel, since i also use an Oxy8, and use the same Arkaos software that was being demonstrated.
As it turned out, my advise was useless - it was a faulty Midi and they just replaced it and got on with the show. But i got to meet these VJs and we hope to see each other again.VJ Toby (Chris- on right) lives in Berlin - he put me on to Archive.org where i have been downloading some killer 40's and 60's religious film footage. Amoeba (Scot- in front) is a fine young Scot who offered me all his video stock from his cool web site. As for trade tips, we all have come to the conclusion that compressing QT video in photo jpeg format (at about 25 frames per second) is the most efficient way to get the file size down and keep the quality up, and prevent crashing the computer during the show.
Oh yeah - i also met VJ Michela, an Aussie video geek now based in London. She had her first website up in 1993 (impressive!) and is working on an open source video project online.

PulpFiction RSS/Atom feed

PulpFiction is a new RSS/Atom newsreader for Mac with great filing system . . .BUT it costs money so i will not be getting it. Rumor has it that Opera's new browser 7.50 will act as aggregator as well as browser. I am downloading it now.

Gooooooooood Morning London!

Yuk. I hate doing radio and i haven't done it for about 10 years. But England is a different country and maybe it wont be so intimidating. Christian Premier Radio with Rob Frost. Breakfast show. Next Sunday 23rd, (not moday as i said earlier) at 9am. I think you can hear it on the internet here. Pray for me.

Youth Ministry Failure

An interesting conversation/cohort at Emergent Convention this week will be the Failure of Youth Ministry. Somewhat related is the talk of unrealistic expectations from groups like Acquire the Fire. Mr Careaga sticks his neck out.