- living the dash (this blog has moved to livingthedash.tv)

$2.84 Billion = Revenue generated from U.S. porn websites in 2006

110 Million = Number of active users worldwide on Myspace

38% = Percentage of Protestant churches in America in 2007 without a church website

info from TechCrunch & Jeremiah Owyang & The Barna Group

I have been reading through The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual……it is free online here

The internet has changed things. And I don’t mean in an every company, organization, or church has a fancy website kind of way.

The internet has really, really changed things. A global conversation has begun……..via the internet.

The attraction of the internet isn’t really the technology. Remember, the internet started gaining popularity when the technology of the internet wasn’t all that great.

The attraction of the internet is the conversation…….and the technology of the internet enables that.

Everyone can communicate with everyone about everything. Instantly.

It seems obvious now with the explosion of things like Myspace, Facebook, web-based email, instant messaging, blogs, and Twitter. But the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto had it figured out way back in 1999. I was shocked when I noticed that the manifesto was written that long ago.

If you don’t have time to read the whole thing, at least check out the 95 Theses

Then ask…..

• Am I part of the global conversation?

• Is my business part of the global conversation?

• Is my employer part of the global conversation?

• Is the Church part of the global conversation?

I just signed up to hear Guy Kawasaki speak at the Houston Technology Center on April 23rd

Thanks to Entrepreneur In Training for pointing out that Guy is coming to Houston

Here are the details

I will try to take some notes and post them here around on the 23rd or 24th

I thought this was kind of cool

Check out the site navigation here

The navigation reinforces the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ theme of the message series

Simple, yet powerful

Lifehacker is one of most popular blogs on the internet, so many of you are already familiar with its awesomeness.

Lifehacker took a lot of the great tips and tricks from the blog and put them in a book called Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better.

They posted a great post today that provides a bunch of links to the same info that makes up the book…….

The Best of Lifehacker in Upgrade Your Life