Matt Cutts offers his review of the new Google Reader to manage your RSS feeds.
I like how Google is referring to it: an inbox for the web.
I’m a huge fan of Bloglines (and they’ve just updated with some cleaner (AJAX) updating), but the new Google Reader looks like a good alternative.
If you’re using RSS, how […]

Skype is the best instant message software program available.
There. I said it. I feel better.
It’s taken me a while to get there. I’ve been a fan of Skype for a while, but I really like others a lot also. Why am I sold out to Skype?
Well, using it for text chat […]

Anyone tried the new Blogger Beta?
Blogger has been under pressure to upgrade their blogging tool for years. Wordpress.com offers so much more. So Blogger has released a beta upgrade to their tool. So far, it’s pretty good. They offer a lot of assistance to template tweaking, offer categories (as labels), and […]

MenTodayOnline.com has an interesting article about the Effects of Internet Pornography.
Quick stats from the article:

66 percent of Internet-using men between the ages of 18 and 34 look at online porn at least once a month.
Seventy percent of 15-to-17-year-olds said that they had accidentally come across pornography online
51 percent of pastors admit that looking at Internet […]

This post is for all you out there that have a few useful bookmarked sites for eMinistry. I see different lists around the blogosphere and elsewhere. We have some listed in the “tangents” list in the blog gutter.
But I wonder if there’s a “Web 2.0″ way we could aggregate these into one place […]

Ever been to a website where images take forever to load? And when they do, they look horrible? This is more common on blog and discussion forums. Please don’t be that person who is responsible for doing this.
For heaven’s sakes, please, if you aren’t able to resize images before you email or […]

Okay, so does this help? How to explain RSS the Oprah way.

Thanks, Steve.

Today marks the two-year blogiversary for this site. Sept 21, 2004 I opened this site as a place to record my notes on what I saw that it took to have an effective web site.
Two years later, that’s still what this site is about. But we’ve grown by adding more authors, and tried […]

Is it possible to have community online and remain anonymous? Grant says:
[…] anonymous comments isn’t open dialogue. It’s a monologue. Anonymous has no accountability, flesh and bone, or feelings […] Anonymous threatens true, biblical, authentic community because anonymous doesn’t have to be accountable or ever apologize.
What say you? Currently we allow anonymous comments […]

A few weeks ago I started listing to a podcast called Geeks & God. It’s not bad. A little geeky to be sure (some of it I didn’t get — which is also why I don’t consider myself a geek; but then again here I am blogging about a podcast that I like […]