- #1 way to better your character: Get on a sleep schedule. #
- @dougfields no matter what you do make sure you keep that rockin’ cover!
lol # - @dougfields and @outsideallday you should do a contest on ideas for a new title of pdym - won’t have to use but it could give some fresh … #
- How early do kids start gymnastics? #
- Okay - I have finally gotten a moment to crank out 2 hrs of work for Simply. Man, been waiting all day to get this stuff done… #
- @outsideallday Middle toliet flusher? #
- Is website one word or two? #
- @patbrumfield I agree - it is website not web site. Was looking at it an article that was published and it looked wrote as two words.Thanks! #
- Phew! Really cranked through some admin work - ready to dive in tomorrow. Good times! #
- FOLLOW @dougfields on Twitter! He has a bet that its LAME! If he gets over 1000 followers he LOSES bigtime! #
- Who is free for lunch today? Maybe a little Chipotle action? #
- Just got done shooting a new watgs podcast - it was a GREAT show! I may release it early it was so good… #
- how do you feel about just going with Blip starting this week? #
From the monthly archives:
April 2008
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- @claytoncoates Where is the class at? #
- @SimplyInsider I don’t know if it is wrong, but I have done it several times. #
- #1 way to better your sex life: Pray with your wife. I’m just sayin… #
- @joshuagriffin what time do the movies start? #
- #1 Way to NOT better your sex life: always walk behind your wife making caveman grunts of approval. #
- Eating at Johnny Rockets - good family time. #
- @patbrumfield does that count mud wrestling? #
- Calling it a night - gearing up for this next week. #
- Starting the day with new "input" restrictions. Email check 3 times a day, RSS checked 3 Times a day. But IM on in case I need to be reachd #
- @kerrymackey We are going to see. Have email set to "manual" and took RSS apps off my Dock. #
- @Johnny_Cr get the writing done in the morning or its likely to go undone -its the whole lunch, tired, "Crap" its the end of the day thing. #
- @joshuagriffin LOL - I am positive we have said that here as well. funny… #
- @jonkelly Is that Shredder in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sense? (lol) #
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- Coming to get you guys in just a little bit. #
- Get to speak my illustration piece at Saddleback’s Hsm one more time, this morning at 9am. Home stretch! #
- Then family is going to a morning service at Saddleback - it will be crazy but then we will be free the rest of the day! #
- Everyone welcome and follow @claytoncoates he jus signed up fro twitter. #
- @johnny_cr hah- I do that all the time to save time, that stinks… #
- Check out @nfldraft08 for the draft today… #
- I should be paying attention to Kay Warren teach right now onDangerous Surrender - but I’m so tired my eyes are watering… #
- @phlowen are you on staff at willow creek? #
- @markmatlock oh wow - that is self torture… #
- I love lazy Sunday afternoons and Stargate. #
- @stephencp what is up man!!! Glad to see you here on the fabulous twitter. How are things for you? #
- @stephencp Well, doing side work in the social media web-tech area, but I got a chance to speak a small piece at HSM this week. Super cool. #
- "Productivity is the ratio of imput to output" Timothy Ferris - and briliant. It’s not how much you GTD capture - it is visible results. #
- @stephencp Yeah we are still around Saddelback, love it here. #
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- Check out this video! http://tinyurl.com/5d9dua [http://tinyurl.com/5d9dua] - (disclosure AmberWatch is a client) #
- @kerrymackey I "coached" them through the whole process. But wasn’t tactical on the actual design. #
- Okay, today is really stinking hot. Jeesh #
- Pray for me. I am speaking a small part of the lesson in Saddlebacks high school service tonight. Such an honor! #
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- Had a great and full day today. Cranked a bunch of work and finalized it with action items in play - and then a sweet date night - perfect! #
- Is anyone else have a problem with Alert Thingy actually showing the tweets from your twitter friends not in FriendFeed? #
- Finally - it is going to be a starbucks day… #
- Now entering the Mecca of starbucks. #
- @patbrumfield You should come to the wahoos starbucks - I have the big table #
- Alright - morning has been good - continue to get my world in order - now to check bus mail and get lunch #
- @outsideallday everything rocking with the podcast? #
- Finally get 5 bars with AT&T and there is no Edge. SoCal coverage for the iPhone sucks. #
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- @samgamgee that is awesome - what a blessing… #
- @livintrue Get some rest man. ill shoot a prayer up for ya.. #
- @joshuagriffin whoa! Congrats man! #
- @joshuagriffin That sounds interesting… #
- @mattmcgill How did the meetings go yesterday? Good Stuff? #
- @chrisday That is awesome man! way to go ! #
- @blogworld @sethgodin isn’t the real Seth Godin. #
- @blogworld Yeah, Seth blogged about that fact that he isn’t on Twitter a month or so ago. And all the tweets are delivered by twitterfeed. #
- @blogworld here is the blog post :: http://snurl.com/25g9k #
- When I "play ball" with my son I am really just an advance back stop. He throws full force even if only right in front of me - lol… #
- Netnewswire has just become my perfect Basecamp / 37 signals application. Notificaitons and Web interaction all in the same app - nice! #
- @kerrymackey will do. #
- @kerrymackey Where are you and your boys driving to today? #
- holy cow - facebook chat just rolled out to my account - this could be incredible… #
- @johnny_cr @outsideallday @joshuagriffin @matthewmcnutt check out and see if your facebook account has chat on it yet… #
- @nickcarnes That means I will see it soon - #
- One Minute Bible Sale over at Simply: Hey everyone, getting students to start reading the Bible is al.. http://tinyurl.com/6hqdrn #
- @nickcarnes oh, @outsideallday is the dude. I am just helping with the tactical on some web stuff like articles, ec. #
- @Kezrush well, there are url shorteners builtin into twitter. Twhirl and Twitteriffic do it automatically as well. #
- Man, the updates coming from Alerty Thingy are getting better and better. I am excited to see where this goes - and adds into Friendfeed … #
- OKay - i am trying to just use alerty thingy for twitter for the next hour - since it should shoot me all the updates from my twitter fr … #
- The flickr upload isn’t working for me on Alert Thingy - and neither is having the rest of my twitter friends show up… #
- Reading: "youth ministry blog network" (http://tinyurl.com/6qsqus) #
- Back to twhril - alert thingy isn’t que’ing up the rest of my twitter friends - only the ones in Friend Feed… #
- http://twitpic.com/j0t - - check the picture - do I really need more alerts and distractions running at the same time??? #
- @crd55 Guitar Centers will have them - #
- Go watch this now: http://tinyurl.com/635tjz [http://tinyurl.com/635tjz] - totally hilarious… #
- facebook chat is changing my world - and for the better - I may stop using ichat (aim, yahoo, gtalk) soon #
- @johnny_cr have you seen Fmenu for the mac? It is a top level Facebook notifier like Google Notifier - but for facebook… #
- Chris Walker Quote of the Day: http://twitpic.com/j3r #
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- hah, I have pownce, alerty thingy and twitteriffic all going at the same time - talk about attention deficeit lol #
- @mattmcgill Nice! #
- Wife’s home _ I finally get to get out and go grab some Starbucks productivity! yeah! #
- The Killers Mr. Brightside is such a freaking good song… #
- @joshuagriffin Dude I know - it is ridiculous. I thought about getting a mountain bike - then I realized I’m lazy. bad plan from the sta … #
- @matthewmcnutt I just put on 5lbs reading your tweet… #
- @jowyang my friendfeed handle is tonysteward #
- Eating lunch with my family at wendys - then gearing up for a productive nerd afternoon. #
- @Veronica0827 It is like you are trying to work from China or something. Don’t they have human rights there? #
- Who of my followers/community out there is actively using Friendfeed? (or social thing thorugh friendfeed is better as of yet…) #
- I hate it when I work for an hour on a high priority task - and it only checks one thing off my list of a hundred… dang. #
- ack - i’ve got to get out of my house. Off to starbucks…. (still have 23 tasks that Omnifocus is telling me are due today…) #
- Just discovering Friendfeed "Imaginary" friends - brilliant - this may replace all my RSS feeds / Newsfire use… #
- @crd55 invite sent to your work email. #
- The command and control of arrogance of IT departments is quickly on the way out as their "special knowledge" becomes free or commonplace. #
- @MarkDykeman No, but those are more project or conslutancy based. And it is getting easier to outsource those things - depends org size too. #
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Many theorists and authors have written about how our culture is moving from the modern age into the information age. Where the exponential rate of technology, communication and our participation in it is bombarding us with thousands of more pieces of information to interact with every day.
The advent of the RSS feed, which is best explained as auto-mated web browsing by it’s founder Dave Winer, has only made it easy to be swarmed with information. Tech bloggers like Robert Scoble have entire careers spent in RSS feeds (he subscribes to over 600 websites), social networks (facebook) and micro-media (twitter) that has made information immediate, global and constant.
There are even services now that combine all of these channels (Friendfeed and SocialThing), where you can see what all of your real and virtual connections are producing and distributing through out the internet.
The most valuable skill set for the next century with be a combination of highly advanced information capture and filtering methods coupled with a rigid sense of prioritization in where your attention will be spent. Money is not the most valuable commodity, and NEITHER is TIME! Your attention is your most valuable commodity.
Of course all of use have a limited amount of time, but our attention is how we spend our time and what we spend it on. Are you glued to your computer most hours of the day reading RSS feeds, sending twitters and filtering email vs. stopping the gerbil wheel at a specific time and “going dark” to be with your family and friends?
And I mean really be there. Not be in their company giving partial attention while taking pictures with your camera phone to send to Facebook mobile, to twitter the event and to check your email while having a conversation over sms with someone who isn’t even there.
This may sound drastic, and to those being left behind in most of the technology jumps right now it seems ludicrous. But interaction like this will become the norm in less than 15 years.
This whole trend and my processing of it has been why my blog posts have been less frequent over the past week. Instead of just wanting to push any and everything online to keep up in comparison to other bloggers and individuals frequency of posting to the internet - I wanted to wait until I had something I thought was worth saying. I wanted to actually turn my phone off and enjoy an evening with my wife and children. I wanted to re-evaluate the pressure to document everything going on through text, picture and video - instead of just being fully present - no matter where I was.
That is my challenge to you. The internet is not going away, and neither is the escalation in the generation and distribution of information. And in some ways it is a good thing - I am a fan of accessibility and online community and the benefits that come from it. At the same time I want to be fully present in my life to the faith, life, love and family that I have with me.
Where is your attention being spent?
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