A High of 18
So in July 2008, I hit a post high of 18. So far this is my 16th post of the year… now of course, my sermons are going elsewhere and I am trying to keep up with the church blog. So my blogging has been divided 3 ways, but never the less.
I think there is something else going on in the world of online thought sharing and that is facebook and twitter are killing the casual blogger. The sad thing is those platforms don’t provide for the depth of insight and interest that blogs did. I think people are interesting, extremely interesting. And having the chance to read their organized thoughts and ideas is a great insight into people you know and people don’t.
If blogs are like fine dinning, facebook is like fast food and twitter is like crack. They don’t allow for depth of conversation. They are teaching us to think in ideas that are no longer that 160 characters… Yet the world is full of things that need so much more than that to express or understand.
Yes, its weird to blog about blogging, but I think this is bigger than that. Its about society moving sound bite thinking. We have long been hearing our news, getting our advertising and receiving information in sound bit form. If you can’t get someone’s attention in a few words, then you can get it at all. But now we are starting to think in that amount of space and its scary.
Part of my job… part of my vocation! is to be a crafter of words. Words are the tool I use each and every day. I study them, I write them, I speak them… I even find my faith in a God who is WORD.
So what’s the solution? I have no idea. I think this movement into sound bite culture over word culture is one with irreversible inertia. Yet as the Church, perhaps our calling is, as much as ever, to continue being a proclaimer of words. To do what we have done for 2000 years, for 6000 years. To tell of a God who spoke the world into being and who spoke Christ into creation.
Well… I think this post makes 17, I am almost caught up to July 2008.
