• Brick and mortar vs. Digital media

    barnes & nobleTonight Kristen and I spent an hour walking around our local Barnes & Noble. Each time I go there I have a recurring vision for what I am supposed to do with my life.

    I’m a messenger.

    I believe God has placed me on this planet to convey a message. And the most important part about being a messenger is that you need your message to be heard.

    What’s that got to do with the bookstore? 

    Imagine all the very important messages stuck in books you will never read? People walking around a bookstore pick up books for random reasons. The jacket design. A catchy title. Because the worker turned it out instead of in. Because someone picked it as something interesting to read.

    The point is, with 50,000 titles at the local bookstore… if you’re life’s mission were to convey a message… a bookstore sucks as a place to spread it.

    In my case, that translates into “find a better method to spread your message.“

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  • Happy Birthday to Kim

    If you are like me, you are a friend of Kim Porter. And today she is really stinking old, 32. (OK, 5 months older than me.)

    If you’ve got a couple of seconds warm her day up a little and wish her a happy birthday.  Even if you don’t know her, she’s the sweetest person in the world so just stop by to wish her a happy birthday!

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  • Dear Detroit Media: Leave Kwame Alone!

    kwame kilpatrickThe last 3-4 days the local news in Detroit has not left the mayor alone. There are some allegations about him surrounding whether or not he lied about an affair he had with a staff member a few years back.

    And the Detroit media is having a field day. It’s completely disgusting that they have nothing better to do than stalk this guy 24 hours per day. Television stations have sunk to new lows by flying their traffic helicopters over his house to see if his car is there. They are giving updates on his families movements, and virtually any other disgusting detail they can reveal.

    I have some advice for the Detroit media: Go back to covering lost dogs and stalled cars on the freeway. And don’t forget about your helpful segments, helping single moms get free cars or tracking down bad contractors to shame them. Those are things you are good at. Treating the nightly news like it is Access Hollywood is disgusting? Cut it out.

    Sure, he is a public figure. But this is too far. This story is not worth 24 hour coverage. It’s simply not news the people of this city want to hear.

  • Commitment: A trend to or a trend away?

    I posted a question here… your thoughts are always appreciated.

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  • Satan Uses TurboTax

    I know that we try hard at Romeo to create great videos. And there are a few churches we would love to be like. Lifechurch.tv is right up there on that list. What they do is beyond cutting edge for a church, they flatout do stuff that is cutting edge everywhere.

  • Purging Google Reader

    As much as I love reading things on Google Reader, there are just some feeds that had to go. Over the last several days I’ve been weeding out some feeds that I no longer find useful or who were just plain getting on my nerves.

    Here’s how I use Google reader: I subscribe to a bunch of blogs, websites, and news sites with stuff that I like. During my morning routine I read through these articles with the goal of getting my balance down to “0.” The problem was that each morning I was starting with about 200… and that was simply more than I wanted to sort through. In fact, there were some that I noticed I stopped reading altogether and just “marked all as read.”

    So, who got cut? No one that I personally know. But feeds that were sending 10-30 articles per day… they had to go. Feeds that sent 3-10 per day but all of them required me to click on their link to see the whole article… they had to go.  Feeds that send out a lot of articles that are good, but will get picked up and re-released by Boing Boing had to go.

    What was the result? I’m down to about 70ish posts to read in the morning. That’s much more manageable.

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