What does Zombies of the Gene Pool have to do with ministry? A video with no redeeming social value whatsoever. (2:40.)
Quicktime video — Click link, and where it says “Select a format” choose “Source — Quicktime”. Wait until the file downloads to your computer, and then click play. This should work for dial-up connections, and offers higher-resolution for all connections.
Yay! My favorite video so far!! I laughed, I cried, I laughed again.
And I seriously have to get a video camera…
(your sister…ever competitive, but in a good way…)
Jean — Yeah, you gotta get a video camera. And you probably have more books than I do….
(P.S. Everyone go out and buy Jean’s book, the one in the video. Excellent reviews, by the LA Times among others.)
Fantastic Video! Loved seeing you and your books. You have more than I do… but a video of mine would be just as odd. (And don’t knock those Perry Mason books… I don’t own any, but I bet I’ve read the ones you own.)
Hello,
I am a member of the UU fellowship in St. Augustine, Florida, and am researching the use of new media by liberal religious groups such as the UUs. You seem to be an exceptional resource in this regard. What I have found I would like to share with you. Go to http://www.nrdp.net/uufsa/ and scroll down on the left bar to UU Blogs. Some of your work is already mentioned there. If you wouldn’t mind helping me fill in gaps and make suggestions about sites that you think are exceptionally “democratic” in their use of
multimedia to support or challenge the UU Association in Boston, I would greatly appreciate it.
Virgil “Pete” Moberg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Journalism and Mass Communication
Jacksonville University
Jacksonville, Florida 32211
904-256-7943
UU Jester — Yeah I have more books than you, but I’ve also been working in churches longer. I fully expect you to pass me in, say, five years.
Pete — Whoa, there ‘s a serious error in that page you give the link to. One heading reads “Produced by the Boston office to help congregations organize and augment their programs” — but except for http://www.uuworld.org/news/blog.php, none of the Web sites and blogs listed is, in fact, produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association.
You ask about Web sites that I think are ” exceptionally ‘democratic’ in their use of
multimedia to support or challenge the UU Association,” but I wouldn’t even frame the question that way. I don’t see it as a question of a hierarchical or centralized democratic power structure, where there is a central power structure which is being challenged by new media. Instead, I see the new media as subverting the whole idea of centralization. With the new media, anyone can help shape and create the content (by posting your comment, you contributed to the content of this blog!). It’s a paradigm of conversation and webs and fermentation, rather than a paradigm of control and challenge. Someday soon, I’ll do a post on the new book “Clear Blogging: How people blogging are changing the world and how you can join them”, which touches upon this whole idea.
So Pete, when you ask me to fill in the gaps, I’m going to throw it back at you — I wouldn’t presume to fill in the gaps and try to be a centralized source for good UU blogs — I have pretty idiosyncratic views, and wouldn’t want to skew your sample. Instead, I suggest that when you get to a site you like, you follow the links on blogrolls (e.g., if you like what you see here, try the links in the menu at left). Since it’s a decentralized web, that’s the best way to do things — follow the links, follow the conversation. Or start an email conversation with me, or another blogger. Or (best of all) start your own blog!
oh my.