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Live Blogging Xmas

ELL, No, not really. But the point is, I could provide minute-by-minute notices of Aaron’s gift list, or Brodie’s function as Santa this morning. I could, quite happily, note my every little reaction to my constant cycle of sugar buzz and crash, nap (start over), using such services as text messages (SMS), Twitter, [...]

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Email

EAR CHURCHES Out there: if you post an email address on your website, then damn it you’d better freaking EXPECT Someone to use the email address and you’d better freaking ANSWER the email.
Taking advice from friends I’ve sent emails to two different priests at the email addresses published on their websites. Response? Nothing. [...]

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YKWIM

O PEOPLE in your world send you email or (gag!) memos with common phrases abbreviated? “David LM for you requesting a CB” (etc). Or simply using “Y” or “N” for affirmations and denials?
It was driving me up the wall. Makes sense in Internet Chat where YMMV and RTFM make perfect [...]

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Like a Time Machine

‘VE FOUND A new use for the Internet Archive!!! I can dig up old photos from previous versions of Doxos - from back in the day when there was no subdomains, etc.
Like, here’s a picture of my friend, Parks, from terribly early in the AM on Thanksgiving day of 1999 (we’re at Krispy [...]

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In the Tubes

ACK IN THE DAY, the mail was sent by tubes, the original internet: The Mailpipe:
Charles Emory Smith, the former postmaster general, predicted in The Brooklyn Eagle in 1900 that one day every household would be linked to every other by means of pneumatic tubes. Around the turn of the century, there were even several [...]

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Wither Episcope?

ISHOP Marc blogs on the possible evolution of the ministry of episcope:
I think that a new phase for the exercise of episcopé will be for bishops to seek to connect the people of God more directly with one another, rather than through us.
One of the interesting things I’ve noticed about the internet is it [...]

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