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The Church as Wikipedia (Open Source Church, Chapter 2)

Posted on August 31st, 2010

Since my manuscript deadline is now a mere two months away (November 1) and my travel schedule as PCUSA Vice-Moderator is going to ramp up soon, I’m starting to get antsy. As I wrote the other day, I’ve got to get this done. My brain is starting to generate brand new ideas after working on this one for about 3 years, and I’m anxious to begin something new. As before, I’m using a plain text editor, so refer back for the legend. I think I need real feedback on this one, y’all. This is the linchpin chapter, I think. As such, there needs to be a strong case made for the differences between open source church and the church we have. I don’t think…

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More from Chapter 2 – Wikipedia is free content

Posted on August 20th, 2010

Vacation took the wind out of my sails a bit, but I’ve done some more work on Chapter 2 this week. Annotations are the same as the previous post. This is a big chapter. I didn’t realize how important this one was until today. I think that once this chapter is done the work is downhill from there. Let’s hope. I just hope I’m still on track to hit my November 1 deadline. I know that I’ve got an understanding editor and publisher, but *I* need it to be done by then. As always: Comment away! **************************** *Wikipedia is Free content* The third of the Five Pillars reminds us that Wikipedia is a project founded on and reflecting the open source worldview that we…

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Chapter 2 (so far)

Posted on August 1st, 2010

The bad news is that I didn’t get Chapter 2 done by the time I left for vacation. The good news is I continue to disprove my fear that I’ll have nothing to say. Here’s the draft of Chapter 2 so far. I’m about 1/3 through the outline, but I don’t yet have a sense of how many words will come with each chapter section, so I don’t know if I’m looking at 1/3 of the total words in the chapter. I’m putting this up on the blog with my new iPad, which is proving to be an amazingly distraction free machine to write on (This is the one time I’m grateful that Steve Jobs did not put multitasking on an iDevice… ). I’m…

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