Month: September 2006

In less than 72 we’ll embark on our world wind CWF trips.
And when I say world wind – I do mean world wind ;-).
We’ll leave Thursday morning at 4 a.m. for Branson, Missouri where we’ll have a show that night. We’ll leave early the next morning to drive another eight hours to Iowa, where we’ll have a show on Friday and Saturday night.
After Saturday’s show we’ll pack up the ring and hit the road again to return to Dallas by Sunday afternoon.
Rob’s preaching Sunday night in view of a call for an associate pastoral position.
Then Tuesday afternoon Rob and I head to DFW Airport to fly to Jos, Nigeria with a group of 13 other fired up folks from Lakepoint Church in Rockwall.
There are still some concerns and needs that I won’t go into here, but pray that God will remain sovereign and take care of our needs in ways that can only bring Him glory.
Also pray for the hearts of those we come in contact with between now and our return to DFW on Thursday, Oct. 12.
To God be the Glory!

5. You’re bringing your own toilet paper for two weeks
4. You pack special “extra duty” insect repellent (illegal in 24 states)
3. Packing a bag of Doritos for the missionaries is almost as important as packing medical supplies
2. You’ve been told to bring multiple bottles of hand sanitizer
1. Your group is bringing toilet seats

Dallas Mavericks owner and former Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban has written on his personal blog that he expects to see the end of YouTube sometime soon.
He is a smart man.

What is it about youtube.com that has made it so successful so quickly? Is it the amazing quality of user generated content? Is it a broadband fueled obsession with watching short videos?
No & No.
Youtube’s rapid ascension to the top of the traffic ranks can be attributed to two and only two reasons:
1. Free Hosting from any 3rd Party site
Hey, why pay for bandwidth for a video if you dont have to ? A blog, a myspace page, an email, any website. Just throw in some html in Youtube.com foots the bill for bandwidth. Sure you are limited by size of file, but so what. Just chop it up into parts 1 through N. Its fast, easy and free.
Come to our website and use our video hosting services, we can party like its 1999 all over again !
2. Copyrighted music and video.
I dont have a count, but i bet Daniel Powters’ Bad Day is attached to some video snippet of every sporting event ever played , with links sent to fans of every losing team. PIrates season, You had a Bad Day. Spurs vs Mavs. Mavs vs Suns, Mavs vs Heat , Yankees vs Red Sox, etc, etc, etc. Bad Day, Bad Day , Bad Day. If Daniel had a nickel for every time his song was used in a YouTube sports video, he would be a much richer man.

This is going to be fun! Unfair Park reports on the irony that the DMN wanted to cut their staff to spend more money on digital offerings, yet most of the people who left are now online thanks to blogs.

Anyone starting to notice the irony yet? Smells a little like…uh…bacon. By which I mean, for months Belo management has been insisting its buyouts at The Dallas Morning News were all about “empower[ing] reporters and photographers to employ methods in new media and digital journalism to communicate stories,” as editor Bob Mong put it in a press release last month. That’s why the paper lopped off 111 of its own limbs last week–to get ready for the future that was passing it by, to save money it was gonna spend out in the digital ether when the time came. So it allowed to walk out the door pretty much all of the newspaper’s arts staff; guess they weren’t ready for the brave new tomorrow, right?
Well, turns out pretty much everyone who left the fourth floor has already resurfaced–yup, on the good ol’ Interweb, which, last I heard, was gonna belong entirely to Robert Decherd.

Best quote from Robert “Fingers of Fury” Wilonsky’s post:

It’s a promo for Uncle Barky, which, I guarantee you, will be the most-visited-and-viewed local blog by the end of October. Or this afternoon.

Former DMN television critic Ed Barkley has a new blog.
One of his first posts gives you a rundown of the buyouts at DMN and why he took one.
I’m looking forward to the read.

Orange Noise Radio is getting closer and closer. I can feel it. Can you?
We’re ironing out the weekly schedule, playlist and more.
Since I’ll be heading to Nigeria for two weeks next week, I would imagine the station will go live around November 1.
But until then, we’re adding more and more music, more and more programming and I’m having fun.
Want a tease? Check out the current stream at: www.lighthouse21.com.
Here’s our current program lineup (all times CST):

Sunday:

11 a.m. – encounter (with Brian Treadaway)

1 p.m. – Soul2Soul (with Mike Beck)

7 p.m. – Spin 180 (with Matt Mungle)
Mon-Fri:
Noon – Powertalk (with Rick Walker)
Monday:

11 a.m. – encounter (with Brian Treadaway)
Friday:

8 p.m. – Renew (with Aaron Lehmann)

9 p.m. – Headphonaught’s Music Store (with Thomas Mathie)
Saturday:

1 p.m. – Soul2Soul (with Mike Beck)

3 p.m. – Renew (with Aaron Lehmann)

4 p.m. – Headphonaught’s Music Store (with Thomas)

7 p.m. – ?? (with myself – Jonathan Blundell)

I’m still considering a name for my program. I’ve considered Lighthouse 21 and Powerline, but they’ve both been used and I’d like something new, so feel free to email/leave your suggestions.
Also, if you’ve got an idea or program you’d like to see added to Orange Noise Radio, drop me a note.