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A new feature of Faith Camp this year is a daily video report from around the showground, which is shown on the screens at some point in the main meeting every evening. Pastor Colin introduced them last night, saying “Apparently, the in word is ‘blog’. So here is our first video blog.”

It’s a great idea, though perhaps a slight misunderstanding of the word “blog” — which actually means an online diary that allows readers to post comments. A bit like my own website, for example. Purists such as Robert Scoble would add the requirement for RSS feeds, trackbacks and pinging blog search engines such as Technorati, though in practice, not all blogs do this. Then again, I guess we could stretch the definition a bit just for Faith Camp. There aren’t likely to be that many people going online on the East of England Showground during the week, after all.

Update: They’ve put the videos online. Lovely. I think that qualifies as a blog now.

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Posted at 19:33 on 30 July 2006.
Tagged: blogging, Faith Camp

It’s System Administrator Appreciation Day. The day you shower your tech support guys with gifts such as Think Geek gift vouchers, hand held GPS units, and other fancy toys.

This will be my first System Administrator Appreciation Day not spent travelling up to Faith Camp. We go tomorrow. I’m not working at camp this year, so (in theory at least) the week should be computer-free. It’ll be odd being there as merely a regular punter rather than as a member of the team…

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Posted at 07:00 on 28 July 2006.
Tagged: System Administrator Appreciation Day

Interesting link of the day: www.bancomicsans.com. I couldn’t agree more. Comic Sans is called Comic Sans for a very good reason. Treat it as such.

Might even be a good idea to set up a rule in your spam filter to treat any e-mail messages that use it as the junk that they probably are…

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Posted at 20:31 on 12 July 2006.
Tagged: Comic Sans