Midlife Musings

A blog by John W. Kennedy

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Brave New Cyber World

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As the economy continues on a downward spiral, the temptations to misuse the Internet will increase. Don’t get me wrong. The Web is a great place for the suddenly unemployed to network in an effort to find work.
But the […]

Facing Up to Facebook

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Family members, co-workers and church acquaintances all have urged me to sign up to join Facebook, the social networking site that “connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.” I’m not sold on the concept.
For one thing, being on Facebook would seem to be a massive investment of time. As […]

Magazine challenges

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Because of changing tastes and technology, it’s not the healthiest of times to be in the magazine industry, including those periodicals filling a niche in evangelical Christianity.
Magazines that had robust circulations only a few years ago are history, victims of the faster (and free) Internet.

New Man, which early in its 13-year history had a circulation […]