Recent screen shot of my Skype window:

UPDATE: Skype is reporting 9 Million.

Could Web 2.0 contribute to the growth of atheism? ThinkChristian.net posed a very interesting question: [is] Web 2.0 powering Atheism 2.0?
What say you?
Darren at WhyFaith.com tipped me off to this term. I’ve never heard of it, but I think “why wouldn’t it”? My posture isn’t to be in battle (though […]

Steve points to a very interesting study saying that net users find online world as important as real world:
43 per cent of internet users who are members of online communities “feel as strongly” about their virtual community as their real world community […] The survey also revealed that involvement of people in online activities like […]

CNN.com is bold to ask Can Internet communication sustain us? They have some outstanding answers!
“True friends […] need to learn when to stop blogging and go across campus to help a friend.”
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Increasingly, young people also are realizing that things they post on their profiles can come back to haunt them when applying for school […]

I am not aware of many websites ministering to the people of Japan. I know that we have at least one staff member there who has partnered with others to bring up evangelistic websites based on the movies The Da Vinci Code and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
I think these are great […]

China regulating youth in Internet cafes
Internet cafes are required to limit the hours that underage customers can spend online and only allow in a few minors at a time.
China has the world’s second-biggest population of Internet users after the United States, with 110 million people online, but tries to regulate what Web surfers can see […]

Interesting report from CNN.com - Apple surpasses beer on college campuses.
Apple Computer Inc.’s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most “in” thing among undergraduate college students…The only other time beer was temporarily dethroned in the 18 years of the survey was in 1997 — by the Internet.
Here’s another interesting little factoid from […]

I am a huge fan of talk radio.
I live in Abbotsford, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver. One of the drawbacks to living here is having to deal with the lack of “traffic flow” on our highways. Rather than reducing my otherwise perfect character to the level of those going 80 km/h in the 100km/h […]

Some interesting comments on how Starbucks is changing society:

Changing what we’ll pay for coffee.
Changing coffee tastes.
Changing what we eat.
Changing how we order.
Changing how people meet.
Changing cities.
Changing social consciousness.

Okay, I’ll argue that it’s not our role to change the price or flavor of coffee, but oh sometimes I wish we had the same sort of impact […]