The Hiddenness of Blog

Moving day.

Glen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:44:52 +0000

So, as promised, here is the anticipated move and update of Hiddenness of Blog. Please set all of your RSS-readers and bookmarks here, as going forward this is where I will be blogging from. Thanks again for your continued support, and I’ll see you on the other side!

Glen

On taming lions.

Glen — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:22:08 +0000

File Under: Okay, first person who can tell me how to get copies of her EPs here in the States gets to be my best friend.

Greetings from 4 am.

Glen — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:52:42 +0000

For those of you who are doing citations in Turabian, I found a pretty brilliant Turabian citation generator.

If you’re anything like me, you’re up at 4 am finishing a paper. And if you’re anything like me, the last thing you really want to do is citations. Just type in the ISBN and go. No kidding. Enjoy.

File Under: Dear Sleep, I miss you. Love, Glen.

Summer plans and promises.

Glen — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:36:02 +0000

Okay, so posting on here lately has been scarce. Let’s get a bit of a “where I’ve been” and “where I’m heading”.

Last semester, I was posting regularly. Especially regularly. In part because I had a continuous flow of theology and otherwise thought provoking material passing before my eyes. So much that, like many grad students, I had to pass it along or I might just pop. This semester not nearly as much.

Additionally, I got tried of just posting links to Between Two Worlds and Vitamin Z all the time. The truth of the matter is those blogs are fabulous, and you should subscribe to them both right now and not just get a watered down version of them on here.

So I tried to make a point of posting every day, but most of it is interesting stuff I find on the internet, but nothing blog-sized enough. And cutting it down to size from my Instapaper takes more time than I can afford most often.

So heres the roadmap for ye olde Hiddenness. This summer I plan on migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org 3.0. With it, I’ll gain a better interface and better means of posting.

Bigger still, and this has been in the works for a while, I really would like to start generating my own content. My goal for this summer, either for the Hiddenness or otherwise is to start a for-the-web video documentary series. I don’t want to say much more than that, but needless to say, its been a goal of mine for a while now, and hopefully just having work and not school, I’ll be able to head that direction. Pray for me. This has been on my heart for a while and I think it could be very interesting and scratching a perceived itch, rather than just being another voice in the echo-chamber, I think.

I’m not done with this blog, and I hope you’re not either! See you in summer.

After I say I do.

Glen — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:40:02 +0000

A “historical”.

Glen — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:19:19 +0000

For those who’ve been party lately to the Evangelical blogosphere’s discussion on the relevance of the study of the historical Jesus, I would just like to submit Michael Bird’s Can the Canonical Jesus be Historical? – 4 Theses as four clear insights into the topic. His main theses:

1. [What the historical Jesus is not]
2. The Historical Jesus is Faith Seeking Historical Understanding
3. The Canonical Jesus is Faith seeking Narratival Understanding
4. Jesus: Historical and Canonical.

In a Legoland far, far away.

Glen — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:50:32 +0000

And the moral of the story is: Legos are surprisingly expensive. And you should too.

A million miles and 2700 frames.

Glen — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:07:22 +0000

Winner of Donald Miller’s Million Miles and a Thousand Years video contest. It’s pretty great.

Also, check out the runner-up on Don’s site. It’s pretty compelling.

The Future of Elijah Wood.

Glen — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:47:48 +0000

File Under: Seriously, the Apples in Stereo record is hot.

Meet the mayor.

Glen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:15:24 +0000

Zagat begins a new series, interviewing Foursquare mayors about the venues they frequent.

For those unfamiliar with Foursquare, it’s a social media platform where, using GPS information from smartphones, you can “checkin” at local establishments. Based on checkins, you earn points and compete with friends, badges for performing specific tasks, and ultimately mayorships for having the most checkins at a venue. This has caught the eye of businesses, with many, such as Starbucks, partnering with the company to create sponsored badges or real life incentives to mayors and customers who check in.

I’ve been playing Foursquare for a while now, and so I find this very exciting. Not just as a user, but for business. It allows businesses an exciting new tool for engaging and retaining customers. My friends and I are constantly joking about places we hold mayorships of (like how I lost the mayorship of Talbot this week) and how we can maybe go slightly out of our way to getting an extra badge (I woke up at 5:30 am and went to a gas station to get the School Night badge).

Via @foursquare.