Great Tool for Web Page Tracing
Have you ever wanted to search back over pages that you know you visited a month or more back, but just can't find them? You may have bookmarked them, but you can't remember the title or URL. It's not worth spending weeks tracing thru the history logs.
I found the tool I want. I use Firefox as my WebBrowser of choice, and have discovered a great little plug-in called "Slogger". It allows you to either save an HTML image of ever page you visit, or of every page you select by a click of a single tool-bar button.
Put this together with Google Desktop Search, or, as I do, with X1, and you can search all the text in all the saved pages very, very easily. Much easier and quicker than the work-arounds I've been using like "Save Page as" etc.
Each page is saved in a file that is date and time stamped in the file name - I prefix this with the domain name: so the file name looks like C://..../domain.name.com-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSSSSS (to the hundreth of a second - no way you'll get duplicate file names.
You can store the files in daily, monthly or annual folders depending on your preference.
Thoroughly recommended.
W-O-M & Evangelism
Evelyn Rodriguez has stimulated my thinking in the last couple of days. She (together with otheres others) has been blogging about a controversy surounding the use of organized 'buzz agents'
(BzzAgents) by
Creative Commons. One of the key issues is the matter of integrity when using word of mouth as a marketing technique. Quoting
A Gwai Lo blog, she points out that
"people just don’t talk the same way in commercials as they do in real life. Advertisers have figured this out, too, and now they’re trying to manufacture word-of-mouth..."
The whole issue raised in my mind the matter of how we do evangelism in our churches. So much of what we do is Program Evangelism, where as what we need is Passion & Practice Evangelism*. Program Evangelism -- learning keywords, key phrases and key concepts to use in specific situations -- smacks of PR, rather than the integrity that we are called to demonstrate as Christians.
*By this I mean that any word-of-mouth must come from a deep passion for the Kingdom, and be backed up with the real integral practice of the Kingdom. If either of these is missing, our evangelism is just words, and will be perceived as 'fake'.
Apologies for the break
My apologies for being "off-air" for a while. What with my daughter's wedding, a church camp, and then my son & his wife leaving for a year o'seas, its been a heavy few weeks.
But I'm still around to tell the tale, and to take up my keyboard and dictation microphone again. (I using Dragon Naturally Speaking again - I find I talk better than just type!)
