Comments on: More ways to QuakeQuake in the socialscape

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:52:20 +0000

Hi Martin,
I hope Quaker blogging doesn’t slow down, mostly because it is fascinating, and partly because our own MetaPagan was based on the idea of QuakerQuaker. MetaPagan is coming up to its first birthday, and seems to be growing. Maybe QQ is just going through a fallow period.
I think Facebook is getting so like MySpace that it is losing its attraction for a lot of people (also Facebook’s terms and conditions mean that they own the copyright on stuff you post on there, which is putting a lot of people off). That’s when efforts like QuakerQuaker and MetaPagan will come into their own, because they are run ethically.
I’ve started a new Editor’s Picks category at MetaPagan using a moderated group on Ma.gnolia. I gather you have a similar category; how do you do it?

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:19:35 +0000

We had a Zen Buddhist stay at our house for a bit and he writes the blog themiddleway.net. One time I was reading it and saw this:
eSangha Sitting Group
We’ve started a new experiment project where a few of us have started ‘sitting together’ online. It’s off to a great start. If you’d like to sit with us, Leave a comment and you’ll be invited.
I will ask him what transpired.

By: Mia

Mia — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:02:08 +0000

I agree that these are interesting questions–our meeting has just launched a new website, which is lovely and very much needed, but it fails to take into account several people who are not fully (or even partially) connected to the Internet/web. We’ve also gone around and around about committee work being done online, and I think have only just managed to find a happy medium (which still threatens to spill over from time to time). But it is still complicated–how can we ask the Spirit to wait until all Friends are able to meet face to face? And yet, it really is awfully easy to hit that Send key without fully taking the necessary time to test a leading. Seems like the same stops that we apply to discerning whether a message is worthy of vocal ministry in MfW could be used online as well, but my guess is that many do not do that. Sorry for the ramble–this is a hot topic with me right now.
Mia

By: Wess

Wess — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:55:52 +0000

Great work Martin, I've checked out friendfeed but wasn't sure whether to use it or not. I'll look at it again. Sorry to have ditched twitter, I found it was an extra thing i didn't need. But, on the other hand, I've been able to find more inspiration for blogging lately. Why do you think blogging has slowed down? And do you mean that, there are less people creating new blogs, or that less people with blogs are writing?

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:04:16 +0000

I think I share your frustration about the inside double talk. I think this is a symptom of whatever’s plaguing the religion and causing it not to grow, the root of which I’ve sensed and trying to tease out.

By: Robin Mohr

Robin Mohr — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:44:57 +0000

Oh Martin. You raise such interesting questions. I just spent much of the last week at the FWCC meeting talking to people about the possibilities for social networking — insisting on not reinventing the wheel but looking at how we can start to link together some of the networks that are thriving.
You are always about three steps ahead of me, even without your train commute.