What Christian Community use to be like

I think Justin is giving an example what we (as society) really want. We want a caring community. Before Roosevelt installed the SSN act local churches used to do this for each other. I believe that we are heading into a reformation as a faith and I wonder if this is one way a church could rethink community.

clipped from drinkingoatmealstout.com The Power of Offline Community In our Web 2.0 world we seem to talk an awful lot about online community but the offline community is almost equally if not more important. Recently, in my parents’ neighborhood, there was an awesome example of the power of offline community. One family woke up one morning to find their house on fire. They got out with their lives but lost everything. I can’t even imagine. The neighborhood… this offline community came together: That’s when the neighbors kicked into action. A next door neighbor serves as a coordinator for offers of help. Another neighbor, Tracy, who lives across the street from us went door to door in the neighborhood with a bucket where neighbors were asked to throw in contributions. Five hundred dollars was collected to help the family pay expenses during the next few days. Are you aware of what’s happening in your neighborhood? Would your community kick into action if a member was in need?

why use a web page anymore?

clipped from drinkingoatmealstout.com More Evidence of the Decline of the Web Page Found this kind of interesting when I was doing my morning RSS readering. Michael Arrington did a story about a new feature on Twitter’s Web site. This is what he said about it… I didn’t notice it myself (I use Twhirl and rarely visit the Twitter site)… I think this is more evidence in the decline of the notion of the Web page. Because of all the great Web platforms and APIs that are being made avaiable, the Web is no longer being constrained by the notion of a Web page. For example, there are many people like Michael Arrington who are using Web applications like Twitter with out ever actually going to the Twitter Web site.