Highlights from around the web – 1/19/10

Here is the latest online ministry news and opinion from around the web. I originally meant for this to be a weekly feature on my blog, but I am finding so much good stuff that I am going to start sharing every few days.   I am sharing these via Google Reader – you can read them all there or subscribe to the feed if you like.

• Don’t Fight Back
  Posted: January 18, 2010
  From: LifeChurch.tv : swerve
  Good advice from Craig at Lifechurch. It's also an interesting statement coming from a church that gets criticized quite a bit about its online campus. I have experienced the results of this advice firsthand: these guys do not want to talk about the validity of online church. They just do it.
• What Does It Mean to “Religiously Self-identify” Online?
  Posted: January 16, 2010
  From: Don't Eat The Fruit
  This is a powerful discussion of how identity differs in the online vs offline world. I might even liken this to the idea of how we have multiple "avatars" (both online and offline); we identify ourselves in many different ways, depending on context.
• Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms
  Posted: January 16, 2010
  From: apophenia
  If you are interested in the Facebook "privacy is dead, get over it" debate, danah has a great alterna-take on it here.
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