Archive for February, 2009
The Nature of Tools: Thoughts on Worship
I just read a blog post yesterday that inspired me to say something about tools. I stumbled across this link on twitter in a search I have up in TweetDeck. So here goes. Is a tool inherently good or evil? How about a fork? Is it good? Bad? Seems a kind of silly question. Let [...]
What Kind of Art Moves You?
Here’s a question for all of you to answer: What kind (or kinds) of art moves you? And why does it do that? What are you passionate about? What stuff do you read/see/hear that makes you understand something deeper? You get the idea. I had been thinking of how I love music and writing. Naturally, [...]
The Way We’ve Always Done It: Words Not to Live By
So here’s the deal. If, in order to explain why you’re doing something, you say “Because that’s the way we’ve always done it,” then you are in trouble. Case in point: the music industry. We’ve always sold physical copies and been able to control their copying to our liking. That’s how we’ll approach digital transmissions. [...]