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New Media and Journalism 2.0

Journalism 2.0 

It is the new way of thinking about Journalism and media.  The industry pundits talk about how the world has been changed at least in their career.  No longer will people be able to just write, and no longer will the common man stay silent.  The wave of new journalism both enables professionals with new tools and allows novice to compete.  Will the news ever be the same again?   With portable cameras, phones with video, and audio recording devices that fit in a  pen there is a new portability facilitated by the new tools.

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Really, really cool
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“Suburbia is a place where they cut down all the trees, and name the streets after them”
— Bumper Sticker found in Austin, TX
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My Thoughts on Post-Modernism and the so-called emergent church

I think the whole play to be “post-modern” is ridiculous.  It errs on the side of asserting that we are past the modernism era and we have the ability to ascertain that.  Eras get named way after they have passed, not during the transition time.   Also, our society is still defined as materialists, naturalists, and technologists all bowing to the god they call science.  To pretend that we are past the modern thinking that all questions can be answered by science is a big statement and I don’t think we can assume that or even claim that.  I think we are seeing minor shifts in thinking, but I think it is more an adaptation of modernism and a correction of some of the more outrageous modern ways.  But as long as we still are a world defined by science (strict materialism and naturalism) then I don’t think we have ushered in any new “post-modern era.” 

Of course the emergent church thinkers assure me that people who are much smarter than I have figured it all out and have dedicated their life to figuring out these shift in social trends.  Which sure seems like a conflict of interest if you ask me.  If you are a person that earns respect and money through books and lectures, wouldn’t you be doing well if you could convince a large group of people that we are in a new era of thinking.
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Fifty by Bike
My friends Aaron and Laura are riding around the US states by bicycle and finding the Geographic center of every state!  Check it out and support them!
Really Excited about this new book: The Edge of Evolution

The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism - by Michael J. Behe (Author)

“In The Edge of Evolution Michael Behe carefully assesses the evidence of what Darwin’s mechanism of random mutation and selection can achieve in well documented cases, and shows that even in those cases that maximize its power as a creative force it has only been able to generate very trivial examples of evolutionary change. Could such an apparently impotent and mindless force really have built the sophisticated molecular devices found throughout nature? The answer, he insists, is no. The only common-sense explanation is intelligent design.”

— Michael Denton, M.D., Ph.D., author of Nature’s Destiny