Another God Video

I was referred to this website, Wordle.net, the other night that allows you to take any body of words and instantly randomly create a word collage that emphasizes the words that appear the most frequently. It also conveniently allows you to paste your blog address into the tool and will do the same thing with the content of your blog (including others comments). Getting the image into a format that you can save and use on your blog or elsewhere is a bit tricky, but the site offers some options, one of which I used, a screen shot. Above is the collage for Oneswordsharpensanother, and I’m pretty happy that it expresses the new places that I’ve been seeking out God in the past few months. This can be a fun and quick analytical tool to look at what’s the prominent message of your work and the conversation around it.

A Holy Ghost in the machine?

I was watching music videos on Youtube this morning when a video tab came up on the side of my screen for Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice, so I jumped over to check it out. When I first watched it I was a little shocked at the voice that was coming out of this disheveled man, I thought it was some voice over joke that somebody put on a video, but then I started watching some of the other video suggestions that came up when I watched this story and this amazing story unfolded.

When I think of a viral video I think interesting or entertaining, but I don’t recall having thought of it as life changing. Perhaps more interesting is that the person who benefited from this video didn’t take it. From his story, it seems unlikely he had access to the equipment to make the video, or internet access to upload such a thing. Ted Williams’ social media was a cardboard sign he held up at a street intersection. 48 hours later he’s on CBS’s the Early Show with all kinds of job offers on the table and about to be re-united with his mother. Maybe what strikes me the most about Williams’ viral video history is that God is on his lips from the street corner to our TV’s (or video screens). In perhaps another great reversal, the word has gone out from the street and come into our homes.