Woke up with song on repeat in my head…I have no idea where I heard it. Kind of seems appropriate for the day that I should finish the last of my course work for seminary!
"He is proud of the GIF, but remains annoyed that there is still any debate over the pronunciation of the format. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Mr. Wilhite said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story."
- GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite, Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award - NYTimes.com
"Eating an ideal healthy diet will cost you $1,632 more a year…far less than the average annual cost of obesity at $8,000/year."
I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.
Tumblr has built an amazing place to follow the world’s creators. From art to architecture, fashion to food, Tumblr hosts 105 million different blogs. With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of thefastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent onsite each month. On mobile, more than half of Tumblr’s users are using the mobile app, and those users do an average of 7 sessions per day. Tumblr’s tremendous popularity and engagement among creators, curators and audiences of all ages brings a significant new community of users to the Yahoo! network. The combination of Tumblr+Yahoo! could grow Yahoo!’s audience by 50% to more than a billion monthly visitors, and could grow traffic by approximately 20%.
In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!’s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content they’ll love. In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!’s media network and search experiences. The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance user experience.
As I’ve said before, companies are all about people. Getting to know the Tumblr team has been really amazing. I’ve long held the view that in all things art and design, you can feel the spirit and demeanor of those who create them. That’s why it was no surprise to me that David Karp is one of the nicest, most empathetic people I’ve ever met. He’s also one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with. His respect for Tumblr’s community of creators is awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted to have him and his entire team join Yahoo!.
Both Tumblr and Yahoo! share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas by focusing on users, design — and building experiences that delight and inspire the world every day.
The passage for my sermon on Monday. Paul’s pastoral heart stirs me, and I get to preach it to a room of pastors. Now is the time!
A reminder that the body of Christ hurts together in tragedy
When we talk about the “body” of Christ, we are referring to the group of people who form the church. We often speak of the ways that we serve the body of Christ through our unique spiritual gifts.
However, as I walk with our community through tragic loss…
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All of sudden, we’re the abnormal ones. We have to figure out why our solar system turned out different from all the others.
Mike Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, wrote me that while everybody is busy hunting for an Earth-like planet, they missed this story. “Before we ever discovered any [planets outside the solar system] we thought we understood the formation of planetary systems pretty deeply.” We had our frost line. We knew how solar systems formed. “It was a really beautiful theory,” he says. “And, clearly, thoroughly wrong.”
"- Our Very Normal Solar System Isn’t Normal Anymore : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
So I recieved word about what my sermon text will be for my first time preaching at our church this summer…
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
Chasing the light
I took a photo of these succulents this afternoon because they reminded me of an important truth…
“What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains”
I am thankful that my faith in Jesus promotes real learning, contemplation and the pursuit of big ideas in long-form oration. Additionally, we are fundamentally guided by a giant book that can get you labeled ambitious if you read in in a year.
(Source: youtube.com)
watching the rain from the front porch with ol rusty
Morning times with the fam
