Part1, part 2, or part 3

Hey, guess what I’m doing right now. Come on, guess, just this once…

I’m creating content, the number 4 way that is changing the world and my world right in front of our eyes.  The freedom and ability of all of us to do what we can do when we like to do it at a low cost (if any).  So I blog because I like to write.  WordPress or blogspot or typepad give us the “freedom” and the platform to blog and to start a conversation about life or religion or politics or any number of topics that we may associate ourselves with.  Facebook and Myspace give us the freedom to start a web site about ourselves that can interact with other web sites that talk about our friends.  And with google, I can have the weather, a map, all the blogs I read, my to-do list, my news, my calendar, my podcasts from Fellowship Church, and any free itunes downloads I can have access too all on the same page.  And it’s all “created by me.”  (Everything but the codes)

And this is just the social aspects of it.  New academics can join the Wikipedia community and write (or rewrite) essays for the encyclopedia version of things that we want to know about like William Wallace and The War of 1812.  New reporters can make a name for themselves without having to interview inside of any newspaper establishment.  Computer programmers who want to go beyond the scope of their jobs can do so on their own time solving problems in “open source” software communities.  Bible teachers can now wax eloquent with their own studies in places like You Version.  Retired?  Thats a thing of the past if you want to keep going.  I read a story recently about a retired scientist who had retired from a company and then got involved with solving “open source” problems offered on the web by the scientific community.  He solved problems to the tune of $25,000 a pop.

And this is in our hands.  We now have more tools to do what we love and to create content.  Sure we might have to still stay up late and write or solve or search or draw, but the point is this – we can create content and be a part of something bigger than ourselves, and do it with things we love to do.  Now the only question is…

What do you love to do?

Special thanks to those of you who have helped “create” this discussion on where our world is going. 

If you’ve been reading Martyholman.com for very long (more than 3 weeks lets say), you know that I have recently changed the theme of my blog to this cool gray/white layout with disturbing bright red picture.  I like it.  I’ve received some good feedback as well.  Along with the blog change I’ve tried to make some changes on the widgets as well to best utilize my space for those who read the site.  One of the reasons for this was because I had my site graded here, and it didn’t do very well initially.  My old address did, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason it did well is because it’s a WordPress domain name, and let’s just say that Martyholman.com, though it has promise, is not quite as dressed up as it should be, internally and otherwise.

So I’m looking for some advice from bloggers and computer type people (this means you Eric) who will share what I might be able to do to improve the blog. 

Also, I need help dressing all my link colors in red.  I have no clue how to do this, and it appears that my link colors (the colors the words become when I link them to a site) do both red and black.  But you can’t always tell when the color is black because it’s only slightly more bold than before.  So I need all the links in red. 

Any advice anyone could give me would be appreciated.