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I agree with you Dare!

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:10:01 GMT

"PS: Am I the only one that thinks that Google is beginning to fight too many wars on too many fronts. Android (Apple), OpenSocial (Facebook), Knol (Wikipedia), Lively (IMVU/SecondLife), Chrome (IE/Firefox) and that's just in the past year." from http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/09/01/TheComicBookGoogleUnveilsChromeItsOpenSourceBrowser.aspx

How Google handles project management

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:56:44 GMT

Consider how Google handles project management. Every week, every Google technologist receives an automatically generated e-mail message asking, essentially, what did you do this week and what do you plan to do next week? This homegrown project management system parses the answer it gets back and extracts information to be used for follow-up. So, next week, Merrill explains, the system will ask, "Last week, you said you would do these six things. Did you get them done?"

A more traditional project tracking application would use a form to make users plug the data into different fields and checkboxes, giving the computer more structured data to process. But instead of making things easier for the computer, Google's approach is to make things easier for the user and make the computer work harder. Employees submit their reports as an unstructured e-mail, and the project tracking software works to "understand" the content of those e-mail notes in the same way that Google's search engine extracts context and meaning from Web pages.

If Google employees found the project tracking system to be a hassle to work with, they probably wouldn't use it, regardless of whether it was supposed to be mandatory, Merrill says. But because it's as easy as reading and responding to an e-mail, "We get pretty high compliance."

Those project tracking reports go into a repository—searchable, of course—so that managers can dip in at any time for an overview on the progress of various efforts. Other Google employees can troll around in there as well and register their interest in a project they want to track, regardless of whether they have any official connection to that project.

"What we're looking for here is lots of accidental cross-pollination," Merrill explains, so that employees in different offices, perhaps in different countries, can find out about other projects that might be relevant to their own work. Despite Google's reputation for secrecy toward outsiders, internally the watchword is "living out loud," Merrill says. "Everything we do is a 360-degree public discussion."

from http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=182560,00.asp

Immanuel Baptist church is now on MyChurch.org

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:14:52 GMT

I just set up my church, Immanuel Baptist Church of Richmond, VA on MyChurch. This is a very impressive online infrastructure! http://www.mychurch.org/

Congrats to Casting Crowns!

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:02:45 GMT

Casting Crowns is celebrating its sixth consecutive No.1 song with “Does Anybody Hear Her.” This is the third No.1 single from the band’s RIAA Gold-certified Lifesong album.

Over its three-year career, Casting Crowns has been the most played artist on all Christian radio formats combined. The band has sold more than 2.3 million albums, with RIAA certifications including two Platinum records and two Gold records. Casting Crowns won a GRAMMY for its sophomore studio release, Lifesong, and was named Group of the Year for the second consecutive year at the 37th Annual Gospel Music Awards. Lead singer and songwriter Mark Hall has been a student pastor for 15 years. He currently serves on staff at Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church in Atlanta.

from http://christianmusic.about.com/b/a/046065.htm

President Lyndon Johnson Quote

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:12:05 GMT

Portrait courtesy of the White House.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
—Lyndon B. Johnson

Give users a Hollywood ending

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:21:05 GMT

"So, endings are crucial. They're what sticks. But why, then, are there so many examples of bad (or at least wimpy) endings?
What do YOU think?"

from http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/08/give_users_a_ho.html

The Church of the Girly-Man, Ya!

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:18:37 GMT

"The title of this post should be said with an Austrian accent while flexing one's biceps."

from http://jollyblogger.typepad.com/jollyblogger/2006/07/the_church_of_t.html

Selected from "The Best of the Best"

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:53:31 GMT

These are my selections from About's "The Best of the Best":

2006

MercyMe - Coming Up To Breathe

2005

2004

2003

2002

Camp, Jeremy - Stay

See the complete list at http://christianmusic.about.com/cs/cdreviews/a/aabestcds.htm

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:53:18 GMT

"Not sure if you heard but John Petze is leaving Tridium. John has been and remains an industry icon.

From a small stream flowing from the company called Tridium, John and his team created a raging river with over 50,000 instances of Niagara installed worldwide. Tridium’s partners now include a wide range of innovative new companies and major OEM’s."

from http://www.automatedbuildings.com/news/jul06/articles/petze/060628041230john.htm

A Biblical Case for Elder Rule: Dan Dumas

Mon, 29 May 2006 21:01:06 GMT

"Elders is written in the plural form while church is a singular term. Churches are expected to have a plurality of elders. It is assumed that we would be governed in this way. Most commentators agree that this is the pattern of early church planting."

from http://www.coffeeswirls.com/?p=1953