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This Blog is Not Cool

Posted by John Saddington on Jan 29, 2009

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Well, according to “some.”

A recent publication from Collide Magazine featured us in their “Tech and Web Reviews : Blog Section” in their latest release and gave us 4 out of 5 stars.

You know what, I am honored.

I’m also thankful for 4 stars instead of 1 (because it could always be worse… right?)!

Here’s the official text from the blurb [Thanks to my boy Sully for hooking me up with the text!]:

ChurchCrunch
www.churchcrunch.com

4 out of 5 stars

What’s Cool: ChurchCrunch is a new technology blog that covers topics like business, ministry, marketing, trends, products, services, news, and anything else that relates to the Church.

What’s Not: Despite being a quality blog, the name is an obvious play on the popular tech blog, TechCrunch.

The Bottom Line: Subscribe to this blog to stay up to date on all things tech and church-related.

So, essentially, ChurchCrunch is not cool because we are “playing” off TechCrunch and their name.

Guilty.

I have often felt the burning desire to actually explain my reasoning behind the naming of the blog. It’s actually quite interesting as it is complex, involving both theological and philosophical thought, as well as some anthropological grounding.

Pretty intense, right?

Perhaps I’ll spend some time blogging about the name in a future post, but until then, thanks my brothers over @ Collide. You guys are cool. I wouldn’t have minded 3 stars either, cause then we could say that ChurchCrunch is “Trinitarian.”

w00t!

Oh, and someone send me a copy of this recent publication? Thanks!

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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7 Responses to “This Blog is Not Cool”

  1. ksc
    Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    to be honest, i didn't think that this site would be "cool" because i thought i would just see stuff that i would already get from techcrunch, mashable, and lifehacker myself. but, i love churchcrunch! whenever you can be part of a community that is thinking the same way (leveraging tech for the church), it's encouraging. there are so many things that i have seen on here that i have used or will use in the future. so, thanks. 5 stars!

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 9:09 pm

      Yeah. many people thought I would be “scraping” content directly.

      in fact, the vast majority of the posts here aren't from techcrunch.

      :)

      just an inspiration perhaps. thanks ksc for your support!

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  2. Gabe Taviano
    Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    Our podcast got three stars a while ago, lol. We've hopefully improved a bit since then, and maybe Scott's also gotten better taste. Glad it's not up to the mag whether we're successful…..haha.

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  3. Ancoti
    Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    How uncool are they that they actually use something as pedestrian as a 5 star rating? Couldn't they come up with a rating system a little less overused?

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  4. ScottMcClellan
    Friday, January 30, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    Seriously. What kind of bottom-of-the-barrel publication is this COLLIDE Magazine anyway? If it was up to me, ChurchCrunch would get 6 yellow stars, 10 pink hearts, 7 blue moons, and 14 green clovers.

    Keep up the good work, John.

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  5. human3rror
    Monday, February 2, 2009 at 1:17 am

    dude, you're my hero.

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