I'm taking a few courses at this fall semester, and I was on campus for orientation yesterday. Here's a few quotes (paraphrased) from professors there yesterday, that I loved:

2 Timothy 2:15 says "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth." There are plenty of teachers and leaders in the church today who ought to be ashamed and are not - they are considered leaders because they are dynamic, popular, well presented, and do not care if they correctly handle the word of truth. (Dr. Doug Groothuis)

Stop thinking you're poor. You are living in the world's greatest civilization of all time in it's golden age. You are not poor. (I don't know the name of the prof who said this to the incoming students)

Brad volunteered with us in the high school student ministries (sgc180) at our church last year, and once told me a story of a friend who had left a very well paying, secure job as a corporate accountant after confronting the question:

So it is in the news today that several liberal bloggers now want a union.

It seems to me that the bloggers who want to unionize are missing the point of new media. The beauty of new media (read: "internet") is that it is made up of unorganized people, available to be the voice of the people, not of a group to which the author is obligated.

Or, perhaps it's just a sense of entitlement.

But the "blogosphere" is organic, limitless, endless, and totally different. You can't try to put the Internet into the same boxes the newspapers fit in.

I suppose this is the same across the Internet; You can't look at it the same way.

It is global, not local.
It is always changing, never the same.
It is the harnessing of impersonal technology for interpersonal community.

It's a whole new way of thinking. Many of us who have or want websites think of them in old ways that don't actually fit.

I've heard that you can't put new wine in old wineskins. I think the principle sticks. Principles never change, but methods and ways of processing and reaching the world are changing faster than ever.