Me: You wanna be a blogger when you grow up?

Orison: No, I don’t wanna blog. I’m gonna play piano and preach.

Some of us should probably wear this sticker on our foreheads as fair warning:

People need to know who they’re dealing with.

Reports comprise indiscriminate detail without any purposeful meaning.

Whereas stories are select details that intentionally influence how you respond.

Here’s a report:

Because of the internet’s democratization, who says something is becoming significantly less important than what is said.

Is this good or bad?

The following chart shows the maximum amount of text users could read during an average visit to pages with different word counts.

-Jakob Nielsen

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(via Josh Sowin)

Tactics that make the gospel memorable are worthwhile—if they’re truly for the message, not the messenger.

More at The Evangelical Outpost.

I’ve decided to never post corrective comments about my own stupid typos.

But people will think I’m an idiot!

Yep, that’s humility.

Michelle Mitchell writes applauding mom blogs.

I’d like to think that 22 Words has some mom blog attributes (without the mom part).

I wrote a how-to about Google Reader.

My goals:

1. Convince you RSS is wonderful.
2. Have you subscribing to blogs within 5 minutes.

Some folks disagree with my thoughts on blogging.

I’m curious: what’s the issue?

I’ll happily link here to any post that explains.

Tony Kummer considers blog advertisement.

I say, ads don’t sell you out any more than getting a job does. We’re not hippies.

Justin Taylor has posted an article I wrote on how to blog better by considering your readers more important than yourself.

Thoughts?

(My entry in the 2008 EO/Wheatstone Academy Symposium)

The onus of defense isn’t on the proponents of new media; it’s on the antagonists who would limit how the gospel spreads.

Tony Kummer of Said at Southern posted an interview with me that we did before the Band of Bloggers meeting in Louisville.

150 reformed Christian bloggers in one room.

What would you say?

I’ll add your answers (if I agree) to my already-too-long list.

Dear boss,

This is my 100th post.

I hope it’s clear by now: 22 words do not a poem make.

Cheers,
Abraham

Emergent or Calvinist—at this point I don’t really care, because it’s troublesome to read either one.

I’m pleading: Use paragraph breaks.

I posted 6 reasons why pastors should blog yesterday.

I’d be happy to hear any feedback here—other reasons or maybe disagreements.

If a writer specifically references publicly available material without a citation, the audience is left to wonder what he might be hiding.

The first thing Orison said to me today:

I made a video of a fun, clappin’ song, daddy.

You can post it.

Michael Spencer writes “10 Reasons I Don’t Read Your Blog.” Amusing and convicting—especially #10.

What makes you quit reading a blog?

(via Vitamin Z)

I’m humbled and excited to be added to the Band of Bloggers panel.

I’ll join Justin Taylor, Tim Challies, and Thabiti Anyabwile.

With few exceptions, I give authors one page to draw me in and motivate me to continue.

I give blogs one sentence.

So I was wondering how to get you to subscribe without me being too ingratiatingly self-serving.

Then Mike Tong sent me this…

From my dad:

I thought of you and your rationale for 22 words when I noticed these from our walks in Cambridge: