Social Media is a funny thing. From Tom @ Myspace to Evan @ Twitter…social media has come a long way. I remember when myspace was cool. It started off with teenage girls, then moved to bands and eventually the hoochies got a hold of it…and it became suck.
Then facebook. I remember facebook. You know, that social networking site for college students. I used to have facebook. Then my grandma and her friends got it. And I left.
I jumped straight over to twitter. About a year and a half ago, when it was still “some dumb micro blogging thing.” Then CNN, Oprah…and you guessed it a few to many geriatrics jumped on board. Well, I still haven’t abandoned ship, but am definitely on the ‘prowl‘ for what’s next. Could it be THIS…maybe THIS….or even THIS?
The new blog is ALMOST ready. After many weeks in development and coding (blah!) we’re almost ready to launch the new “look.”
Then..I turn on my phone this morning and see a msg from my tech-guru titled “Huge Blog Hang-Up…” You can imagine my nervous-ness as I opened the email.
As I twittered earlier, Wordpress does not let you upload custom template to sites that they host…so.
After moving from HERE to HERE…I know have to move to HERE.
If you got to my blog all along by using www.mattmacdonald.ca then you would have NEVER had a problem, but after the advice or a few friends like THIS GUY and THIS GUY it’s time to host the blog myself..
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I saw this on a friends facebook. I guess he found it in a bookstore or something. Makes you wonder…is it really that easy to get something published? I’m contemplating ripping some bark off a tree in my backyard and seeing if someone will publish it for me…I’ll write my name on it and maybe “God wants us all to be like tree bark.” Think of the potential!
Click HERE and HERE or HERE for other great ideas…
Thus far, I have never seen 1 online event that is as widely followed as today’s big Apple Meeting. Here’s a picture I snapped on my twitter to demonstrate how Apple owned the day…
Below is a snapshot of what the “pre-chat” on Apple Insider dot com looked like.
Pretty brutal in terms of what people get excited for. Check out the bottom one…the guy “couldn’t sleep” the night before. Joking or not, it’s pretty sad when people idolize technology like this. But here’s the thing…I’m just as bad! Am I stoked about the new “copy/paste” feature on the new operating system (OS)…YES! I was convicted today via Apple. I had a sweet chat with my buddy @CaptainCool about tech stuff, ministry and everything in between. It is refreshing to talk about tech stuff in the context of our faith (i.e how can I use technology as a resource to spread the gospel), BUT the bridge between resource and idol is not large.
I get excited about technology sometimes…
I need to get JUST as excited about stuff that matters! At the end of my life…no iphone app, new car or cool tie will be there, just me and my Saviour…I need something more to say than…”my itunes library was SUPER up-to-date and I had great hair…”
16 Better is the little that the righteous has
than the abundance of many wicked. 17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but the LORD upholds the righteous. 18The LORD knows the days of the blameless,
and their heritage will remain forever; 19they are not put to shame in evil times;
in the days of famine they have abundance. Psalm 37:16-19
I’ve got my head down for one more day (they’ve become 15+ hour-days recently) left before freedom from tax season…
I haven’t posted anything of substance in a while, and come May, I will return (big baby news that I will write more about soon), but until then…read THIS ARTICLE. It talks about how much T.V you watch and how it is costing you thousands of dollars a year! Very convicting!
Basically what it is a 10-second blog preview. If you click the link, it will take you to a random blog…ten seconds later it will jump you to another blog…and so on and so forth.
I kind of like stuff like this. It somehow makes surfing the web a little lazier (if that was even possible), and let’s you peek into blogs you probably would never see. Chances are you will need to scan 100 before getting a good one, but it’s something for a rainy day.
Social Media is a funny thing. From Tom @ Myspace to Evan @ Twitter…social media has come a long way. I remember when myspace was cool. It started off with teenage girls, then moved to bands and eventually the hoochies got a hold of it…and it became suck.
As I twittered earlier, Wordpress does not let you upload custom template to sites that they host…so.
I saw this on a friends facebook. I guess he found it in a bookstore or something. Makes you wonder…is it really that easy to get something published? I’m contemplating ripping some bark off a tree in my backyard and seeing if someone will publish it for me…I’ll write my name on it and maybe “God wants us all to be like tree bark.” Think of the potential!
Thus far, I have never seen 1 online event that is as widely followed as today’s big Apple Meeting. Here’s a picture I snapped on my twitter to demonstrate how Apple owned the day…
