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Read Along with Mars Hill

By Ryan

February 28, 2007 – 1:16 am

Just wanted to toss up a link to Mars Hill’s corporate selected readings for this season of Lent. Do check it out.

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I’m glad I snagged the feed from Web Directions North way back when I did. Even though I didn’t go to the conference I enjoyed browsing the presentation slides that they put online today.
Download the Web Directions North presentation slides on their website. I hope you will have as good a time with them as [...]

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Rob Bell’s Suggested Reading List

By Ryan

February 9, 2007 – 3:08 pm

One of the questions asked at the Q+A the other night was “How can I be as knowledgeable as you are?” This is an interesting question in itself, but even better was the answer. Rob said to go to MarsHill.org and request his reading list using the contact form. You can do this yourself (I [...]

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Isn’t She Beautiful?: Appendix

By Ryan

February 2, 2007 – 12:31 am

Ask and you shall receive. A couple of people have commented asking for my complete 43 (50 in pdf form, apprarently) pages of notes. I beseech thee to download and further thee…um, theeself?
Mars Hill Conference “Isn’t She Beautiful” Notes
A couple of notes on these, well, notes; first of all all of the highlighted portions are [...]

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- Knowing what an acronym is—the what, the why, the true purpose of it in practice as well as conversation—is important. Knowing what the acronym stands for is only for geeks.
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- Thought this post was an interesting look at good and bad design decisions. Turns out it originated (sort of) at Brand New.
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- As I've mentioned before, I'm on a regular posting schedule over at Daily Blog Tips now. A post of mine talking about widening your blog to take advantage of larger average screen sizes went up today. There is a decent discussion starting up on the topic, which will be worth checking out if that's your kind of thing.
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- Westmont Public Library in Illinois has (as far as I know) just pioneered an innovative way for libraries to use Flickr.
  
  Someone over there is thinking. They're publishing photos of new released books with notes attached to each book that link back to reserve that book on their website. Awesome.
  
  Another great use of Flickr notes that I can remember seeing was this one featuring a lot of web 2.0 logos and notes linking to the relevant website. Any others you know of?
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- The official location of my personal blog has changed from http://blog.aspiringindie.com to a new and (hopefully more) permanent location: ryanimel.com.
  
  I've had issues with name-based personal domains in the past, but I figured I'd swallow it already and go with what seemed the easiest choice. And here we are. The old blog location will still be used, but as the official Aspiring Indie Company Blog. Exciting, right? Maybe just for me.
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