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The Ideal Christmas Gift
I've heard a lot about this video, but only just got around to watching it:
It was worth the wait…
links for 2007-09-14
- A Wordpress vrs Blogger fight like you've never seen it before…
Saying Goodbye to a Ragged Era
Tonight saw the end of an era. Despite the damage I've done to my back, I dragged myself along to the Shaftesbury Christian Centre in Deptford, for the last ever church management meeting there.
The church isn't closing, mind, it's merging with another local chuch, The Bear, but tonight's meeting marked the beginning of the end for a particular thread in its history. You see, unlike most churches, it wasn't founded for worship in the conventional sense. No, it was founded in 1844 as a mission - a Ragged School to educate, feed and clothe the poor of Deptford, in a era long before there was state support of any kind for them.
Over 162 years ago, eight men came together to establish the work on the site. Tonight, seven men and women formally wound up the management of it and passed it onto a different body.
While it's sad to see the church in its current form pass away, perhaps the time is right. The church had long passed its original purpose with the advent of state schools and social security and, in many ways, the Bear has taken on many of the social outreach roles the Shaftesbury used to fulfil.
There's only three more services planned for the current building on Frankham street, before the merger is complete and the site is redeveloped sometime next year.
Vox Hunt: Music - Ticket Stub
Show us a ticket stub from a great concert you saw.
Vox Hunt: Music - I Last Listened To...
Show us the last album you listened to.
According to iTunes, it was this:
links for 2007-09-12
- Some thoughts on what advertising needs to do to survive.
Work in Progress: Types of Blog Post
I'm in the process of working up some documentation for a blog-related event we're having here at RBI later this month. The documents are going to end up as something of a beginner's guide to blogging for trade journalists, and will be going up onto the internal wiki tomorrow, in the hope that some of my colleagues will help develop them further.
But, in the meantime, I've thrown the first of them - Types of Blog Posts - up after the cut for you folks to look at, think about and roundly abuse, if you see fit.
Obviously, I'll be pathetically grateful for any comments or advice…
Devon: Not As Green As It Thinks?
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Vox Incognita
When I started Voxing, waaaaaay back in June of last year, I decided to keep my neighbourhood, as much as possible, to people I actually knew. It was a reaction, in part, to the many other blogs I was reading at the time.
I'm starting to rue that decision.
From Dance to Cornish Piscie to malbonster I'm now, all of a sudden, finding people who are using Vox for really interesting stuff, from cartoons to recipes to photography. And some groups where interesting discussions are happening.
The question is: who am I missing? Which Voxers should I be reading? Who do you recommend to me?
Vox Hunt: Photography - Exposure
Show us a photo that's overexposed or underexposed but you love how it turned out.
Vox Hunt: Photography - Allow Me To Explain...
Show us a photo that requires an explanation.
Enter Disco Stu
Disco Stu has entered the Vox-o-sphere. Go and encourage him with a "hello" and a neighbourhood add....
