Is the Google / Twitter / IM age making us less able to commit to deep contemplative thought?  Watch this video for more info (don’t worry it’s only 2 mins long

Personally I believe this to be true because I see it within myself. As I read magazines I find myself thinking, “Interesting article… but too long…”. I usually fight it and read it anyways, but my inclination is not to.  You also see this in the number of people who stopped blogging and instead started twittering.  Blogging requires some level of thought… Tweeting does not.

I do think the skills of skimming and scanning are helpful, but I also believe that we need more slow contemplative thought.  Being able to do so could be what sets apart future leaders from the rest of the Facebook obsessed population.

BTW… Thanks Fora for the 2 min highlight of Carr’s one hour speech

I’m going to be on an eight week sabbatical starting Tuesday 6/22.  I hope to be blogging some, but mostly on the BacktotheFounders.com site (part of the goal of a sabbatical is getting away from church work).  Other goals include:

• Obviously tons of family time
• Lots of Bible reading
• Hope to greatly expand my iPhone programming skills
• Work on some Photoshop / InDesign skills
• Catch up on a stack of books I’ve been meaning to read

Any other ideas on what I should focus on?  Please share…

Adobe made an announcement today that will greatly impact the future of church bulletins.  The announce a new “Digital Viewer Technology” that will allow you to export full interactive digital magazines to iPad and other devices.  They used this technology to create the Wired digital magazine that was just released.  It’s not quite as cool as some of the other digital magazines available on iPad, but it’s certainly a great start, especially since it uses tools that most churches are already using (most of the features are already built into InDesign CS5).

Definitely look at the Adobe announcement for more details.  You can bet we’ll be looking at the interactivity tools built into InDesign CS5.  We just got it in for our department last week.

Here’s a quick video of what’s possible using this new tool…  The world… it is a changing….