I’m really excited about the latest WordPress release: 3.0 dubbed ‘Thelonius’! Check it out:
“WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and blah blah blah just watch the video.”
Also check out the video that highlights all the great new features:
And in case you are interested here is a video from WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg on the present and future of WordPress in the:
“…2010 State of the Word speech at WordCamp San Francisco, it’s jam-packed with information on the growth of WordPress, 3.0, what we’re planning for the future, and the philosophy of WordPress.”
Technology, and particularly the Web, have brought tremendous changes to our world. As each decade rolls on it seems that these changes have greater effect- almost exponentially. The pace of change is at blinding speed. In the next ten years, as the virtual, digital realm increasingly comes to bear on our lives, how will our faith and our pursuit of GOD’s kingdom be impacted (augmented or impeded or…)? Can we approach these coming changes with wisdom and prayer for the sake of emerging generations and our own spiritual integrity?
How will we respond to the emerging immersive Web? (image: J Fowler)
I remember using email for the first time. Back then I didn’t even know what the Web looked like. Our Internet access was slower than mud and only connected online when sending emails. Today I use dozens of social networks and hundreds of tools and services online. I stream feature-length movies to my laptop while downloading music and other files (legally of course). I connect with family, friends, clients and new contacts who are all over the world with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, NING… I write blog posts on the porch and ‘live tweet’ at seminars thanks to WIFI. I video chat with my dad who lives four hours away so he can see my kids, and if I was savvy enough, I could always be connected to everyone at all times with a smartphone at my side. I do this all from a small farm by the mountains in rural Virginia thanks to high speed Internet access. But what are the implications of this hyper-connectedness?
Net neutrality is a huge issue that many folks who use the Web may not be aware of. Today we have an open and largely unregulated World Wide Web but the future is not so certain. Check out some links, recent news and a video concerning the issues that could have a massive impact on the future of how we use the Web:
We did it and I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to blog about it. Our in-house project on whole-life Christian faith, Sustainable Traditions, finally has it’s own blogazine (part online magazine part multi-authored blog) and we are growing by leaps and bounds! We are starting to get sponsors for the website and are featuring some really great content from folks around the Web. We continue to network with like-minded organizations and hope at some point to create a non-profit entity to grow the project as we devote more and more of our time to all that is involved with our mission to promote the understanding and advancement of whole-life Christian faith.
Now to bring the project to real life on the local level we hope to launch an initiative that encourages local churches to start community gardens. If you are local to Lynchburg/Bedford Virginia and you’d like to be involved please use the contact form to let us know. Thanks!
It’s that time of year again! As the Advent season progresses and Christmas approaches we turn our hearts and minds to the birth and second coming of JESUS. As a part of our annual WISELY WOVEN {Creative Media} Advent/Christmas gift to all of you folks out there in cyberspace we have once again created a desktop wallpaper for your personal computer use. Check it out and let us know what you think. Click on the image to go to our Flickr account to download the large version.
To our friends and clients who have supported us this past year we are deeply grateful. To those we have just met and have yet to meet we look forward to connecting in the new year.
This Christmas may you discover the depths and life in knowing and following JESUS who will one day make all things new! Shalom! -JF
