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Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience 169

Posted by samzenpus from the go-tell-it-on-the-internet dept.
In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."

Comment Re:The simple answer (Score 1) 118

by ipb (#26789331) Attached to: Managing Online Forums
"Have you ever subscribed to even one high-traffic mailing list?"

Actually I do, more than a few. And no I don't do it because it's my job. My email client sorts them into mail boxes and I read them when I have time. I do get behind, but I can run thru a couple of hundred postings looking for the interesting ones and catch up quickly.

"Yahoo Groups sucks"

There, fixed that for you

Comment The simple answer (Score 0) 118

by ipb (#26788261) Attached to: Managing Online Forums

Remove the web interface and create a mailing list instead.

Online web forums are a pain in the butt, deliver it to my mailbox and I'll probably read it. Put it on a website somewhere with a klunky interface and I'll seldom bother.

Comment Moments ago (Score 1) 855

by ipb (#26276499) Attached to: Tales From the Support Crypt
While I sympathize with all those who do real tech support (both for pay and for family) the tech support side isn't without it's clueless support people.

Take the responce I got moments ago from a Clearwire support person in response to a question about blocking of inbound ports 80 and 25. "Oh we don't block port 80, after all it's the 'Internet'"

After explaining the problem once again I get the "I can't answer that, you will have to call tech support" reply.
Biotech

Submission + - Sequestering carbon as a soil fertilizer

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One Salient Oversight
One Salient Oversight writes: "I'll let the article speak for itself:

The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a "wedge" of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.

Agrichar is the term not for the biomass fuel, but for what is left over after the energy is removed: a charcoal-based soil amendment. In simple terms, the agrichar process takes dry biomass of any kind and bakes it in a kiln to produce charcoal. The process is called pyrolysis. Various gases and bio-oils are driven off the material and collected to use in heat or power generation. The charcoal is buried in the ground, sequestering the carbon that the growing plants had pulled out of the atmosphere. The end result is increased soil fertility and an energy source with negative carbon emissions.

Birth of a New Wedge (By Kelpie Wilson)"
Media

Submission + - Wikipedia as a political battleground

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Denis Troller
Denis Troller writes: "During the French debate between the two presidential contestants on TV thursday 04/03, among other discussions, Segolene Royal asked her rival if he new what generation the EPR (Europeean Pressurized Reactor). "Fourth", was Nicolas Sarkozy's answer, which Segolene Royal corrected saying "you're wrong, it's third".

The issue at hand is not the trivia exchanged by the condidates, but the fact reported by the French journal "Liberation" [liberation, in french].

Under a few hours, the french EPR page on wikipedia underwent a succession of changes (about 50), Sarkozy's supporters trying to mask their candidate's mistake, and Segolene's trying to maintain the correct information. An interesting twist on wikipedia's open modification scheme and the growing usage of "online medium" for political campaigning, be it in France or in the US (see Obama's MySpace "scandal" on that matter)."
Power

Submission + - Wind farms might not reduce pollution

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catbutt
catbutt writes: "According to a NYTimes article, which references a National Academy of Sciences study, wind farms may not be effective at reducing polution. The logic seems a bit odd, though, because it says that the reason it won't reduce certain types of pollutants is that there "was already a cap on sulfur emissions and one on nitrogen oxides was likely to follow. Is is possible such caps are a bad idea, then, if they cause people to not bother reducing their output of pollutants, since all it would end up doing is allowing someone else to pollute more?"
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - No-blood method for adding magnetic sense

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Bill Bumgarner
Bill Bumgarner writes: "You can feel magnetic fields and the like without taking a knife to a finger.

Just rip apart a hard drive and grab the head park magnet (if there is one — might have to rip apart more than one drive! Fun!). Tape it to your finger. Very faint, but works. You can also use a "magnetic wedding band", which some companies sell, to detect fields off of transformers quite easily.

Write up with pictures here: http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/03/27/magnetic-fin ger-a-sixth-sense/"

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