The Church of Kopimism

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The Church of Kopimism

No Comments 05 January 2012

According to this MSNBC article, a Swedish group that pushes for digital piracy has been awarded government approval to become an “official church.” This group, which gets it’s name from the Swedish word for “copyme”, has been trying for over a year to get the church registered with the government. The church says on it’s [...]

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Follow Political Trends with New Google Site

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Follow Political Trends with New Google Site

No Comments 04 January 2012

The political races have been heating up for some time now and it’s only going to get more intense as November approaches.  Of course, every pastor needs to be aware of what’s going on politically and a new site from Google can help. The Google Politics and Elections site is basically an extension of the [...]

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Friend or Frenemy? Facebook Unfriending Stats

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Friend or Frenemy? Facebook Unfriending Stats

No Comments 04 January 2012

Facebook is an interesting place.  When it started the goal was to befriend as many people as possible and finding friends there was a fun experience. Then, something happened.  The number of people on the site exploded and with that growth came the experience of being friended by someone from your long past that you [...]

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Printed Church Newsletters Antiques?

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Printed Church Newsletters Antiques?

1 Comment 01 January 2012

This article in the Columbus Dispatch claims that printed newsletters are dying out.  What I can’t believe is that anyone is still printing them at all.  With every major newspaper in the country on the decline, the writing is on the wall concerning communicating via printed media. I’m sure there are exceptions but it seems [...]

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Going to Church Reduces Blood Pressure

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Going to Church Reduces Blood Pressure

No Comments 29 December 2011

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has released a study that suggests there is a clear link between spending time at church and lower blood pressure.  The study was part of a larger health study called HUNT.  According to the findings, the more time in church , the better. “We found that the [...]

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Church Goers are Tech-Savvy

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Church Goers are Tech-Savvy

No Comments 28 December 2011

According to a Mashable, a new Pew Research Center study shows that church goers are just as tech-savvy as those that don’t attend religious services, if not more.  This study puts to rest the idea that church goers are somehow less involved in the growing usage of technology in our society. Interestingly. more church goers own cell [...]

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Top 77 Church Logos

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Top 77 Church Logos

1 Comment 30 November 2011

The good folks over at ChurchRelevance.com have released their annual list of the top church logos out there.  Of course, in today’s graphically intense world every church needs a great logo. We love the diversity of churches represented on this list as well as all the different graphical approaches of the various logos. Check the [...]

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Waiti.ng for Nigerian Domains

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Waiti.ng for Nigerian Domains

No Comments 04 January 2011

Nigeria has recently started selling domain names.  The extension is .ng and that means that a lot of clever new domain names are about to hit the scene.  Currently, the domain names are on sale only to Nigerian companies but “soon” the floodgates will be opened to the rest of the world. So, get busy [...]

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10 Incredible Facebook Game Facts [trends]

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10 Incredible Facebook Game Facts [trends]

No Comments 20 October 2010

The folks over at AllFacebook.com released an infographic about the usage of games on Facebook and it’s truly mind-blowing.  Check it out. Perhaps some church should create some sort of Facebook game that ultimately leads to an invitation to church.  Perhaps that’s a lame idea but I can’t help but feel that this trend needs [...]

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[TREND] Is Your Mom on Facebook?

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[TREND] Is Your Mom on Facebook?

No Comments 09 September 2010

The folks over at Flowtron released an amazing info graphic earlier this month.  The graphic tells us that older folks are using social media like Facebook and Twitter a lot more.  In fact, their adoption rate has recently soared. Here’s a close up of one of the graphs.  As you can see, Twitter alone has [...]

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[NEWS] Apple Will Stream Tomorrow’s Event

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[NEWS] Apple Will Stream Tomorrow’s Event

No Comments 31 August 2010

Apple has just announced that tomorrow they’ll be  streaming one of their keynote events live.  Here’s the quote. Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® [...]

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[NEWS] Good News for Hotmail Users… Finally

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[NEWS] Good News for Hotmail Users… Finally

No Comments 31 August 2010

Hotmail users, you stuck with it and for that I applaud you.  Sure, you could have moved to Gmail or some other service years ago but you stayed with Hotmail for some reason and today your patience has been rewarded.  Microsoft has now added ActiveSync support for all Hotmail accounts. With this added support, Hotmail [...]

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[TREND] Facebook Mobile Numbers Explode

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[TREND] Facebook Mobile Numbers Explode

No Comments 26 August 2010

Facebook recently announce on their developers blog that they now have 150 million “active” mobile users.  As I wrote here, you just can’t afford to ignore Facebook.  These mobile numbers are very interesting though and add a new wrinkle.  It’s clear to me that churches need a strong mobile presence on top of everything else [...]

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[NEWS] Google Voice Comes to Gmail

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[NEWS] Google Voice Comes to Gmail

No Comments 26 August 2010

Google announced yesterday that all Gmail accounts will now be able to make calls using Google voice straight from the Gmail interface.  Call placed to folks in the US and Canada are free.  Rates for international calls seem reasonable too. For more information, visit gmail.com/call.  

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[TREND] Ebook Numbers Soar

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[TREND] Ebook Numbers Soar

No Comments 31 July 2010

PastorGear tweeted last week that Amazon claimed to be selling a lot more ebooks than traditional books.  We assumed that meant hardback books.  But now, Pocket-lint.com is reporting that Amazon says that ebooks will eclipse even paperback sells next year.   The most amazing quote is this… “Sometime after that we will start selling more Kindle [...]

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[NEWS] Youtube Gives You 15 Full Minutes of Fame

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[NEWS] Youtube Gives You 15 Full Minutes of Fame

No Comments 30 July 2010

Youtube used to limit videos to 10 minutes in length.  Yesterday they announced that videos can now run up to 15 minutes. Now, your 15 minutes of fame can truly last a full 15 minutes.  :)  

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