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i wish there were a way to do a REAL age verification…perhaps entering a credit card or license number…and reserving the cooler, anti-new myspace for adults.

said danielle

at 11:10am on Monday

You forgot Twitter. And FaceBook.

said Cameron

at 11:19am on Monday

Yeah, I believe I’ve finally ditched MySpace after such a short time…

I used one of those graphics you created to point people to my VIRBº profile.

Now I just need to convince my friends to ditch MySpace and Facebook, but that’s been a hard sell…

said Daniel

at 11:20am on Monday

You forgot Twitter. And FaceBook.

Twitter is something else entirely I think. I can at least see humor value and thrifty, solid writing in some of the better profiles.

Facebook… I still haven’t figured out what the heck YOU DO on there.

said Joshua

Gossip. All facebook is really good for is finding out what so-and-so said about so-and-so.

said Mandy

at 12:34pm on Monday

I have told others simply that VIRBº is what myspace should have been.

said Bone

at 12:55pm on Monday

Shua, you’re the new mySpace.

said Noah

at 1:07pm on Monday

The only thing facebook is used for is stalking people you went to elementary school with to see if they really did end up marrying their cousin.

said Zach

at 1:15pm on Monday

Facebook is about the same thing every other social networking site is about….WASTING TIME.

said Austen

at 1:43pm on Monday

I think you might be over-semanticizing.

all the cool stuff about myspace is cool regardless of the ugly and clunky and poorly organized.

i ran into an old roomate from fitteen years ago, now living in Cali. Another now living in KC. We have had strangers from Washington and Texas buy our CDs. People come to shows because they check our page. I have gone to shows because of the same. I still, on some level, hate every minute i spend there. because of the ugly and clunky and poorly organized.

VIRB does all of this much, much better and more cooler and prettier and without skank ads. So we will be switching and hoping everybody else does too.

If they do, VIRB is probably the new myspace.

I hope so.

said blaine

at 2:04pm on Monday

So the new Youtube is now Gobtube. Check it out. What will the christians do next?

said Merritt

at 2:07pm on Monday

I’m guessing you mean GodTube and if so, I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. And in answer to your rhetorical question:

Most likely we will continue to produce sub-par parodies of existing media and art while under-paying professionals to execute it, we will call it “creativity”, we will pat ourselves on the back for being “good for church stuff” or some variation on that theme, and we will continue to be widely and generally irrelevant to anyone outside our (small) sphere of similarly-thinking influence.

Just a guess.

said Joshua

Merritt -

I’ve never heard of GodTube, and I will take the liberty of being friends with Shua to share a few thoughts on these Christian developments.

Why must Christians desperately try to keep up with their secular peers? How many “Christian” bands have been labeled sounding like “The Christian (insert secular band name here)? How many “Christian” MySpace style sites are there? And now we have “Christian” YouTube style sites. Is not the God of Christianity the creator of the universe? If originality, and uniqueness was desired, one would think to look to the God of creativity for such ideas. It’s not that there can’t be “Christian” versions of popular concepts. I’m all for giving Christians a place to call their own. But if they want to capture a market (so to speak) and change lives with their messages, why not do it in a way that makes heads turn, makes folks talk, makes the secular world say, “Wow. Those Christians are pimping (ok, maybe not pimping, but you get my point)” God wasn’t late to the game when he created say, the universe…

said Noah

at 2:24pm on Monday

You would think with God on their side Christian artists would produce amazingly kick-ass media. Sadly, that’s hardly ever the case (minus, of course, the High Renaissance era).

said M.A.T.

at 3:23pm on Monday

Godtube? I just died a little bit in my chair.

Don’t just imitate, innovate.

Jesus, save me from Your followers…

said Charlie

at 3:23pm on Monday

You would think with God on their side Christian artists would produce amazingly kick-ass media. Sadly, that’s hardly ever the case (minus, of course, the High Renaissance era).

So good and true I just thought it should be repeated.

said Joshua

I think one of the unfortunate realities we face is that the Christian Music Industry is just like the secular music industry because it’s mostly PART of the secular music industry. Most of the major Christian labels are owned by major secular labels. OR they have to go through secular distributors, etc. So we see the same kind of filtering we do in the Top 40, or the local alt-rock station, or what-have-you.

Thankfully, with better and cheaper access to technology and distribution channels (the internet, or at least for advertising yourself) that’s becoming less of an issue for both secular and Christian groups.

A lot of these so-called social networking sites like MySpace and Virb help that, I believe. It’s not perfect, but it’s sure gotta beat going through Sony or whatever.

said Daniel

at 4:46pm on Monday

hey joshua ever heard of churchmarketingsucks.com?

that godtube.com reminded me of it.

said dan simmons

at 6:28pm on Monday

While totally on point with new myspace/old myspace, I think the the discussion about the void of ‘good’ christian art is really interesting. One of the problems I see is the lack of willingness and ability to engage melancholy, depression or just generally the darker side of things to generate artistic output. There’s such a mind-numbing need to ‘be positive’ and ‘be glad, rejoice!’ among christians that the discussion about how to engage the very things I listed is often too uncomfortable to even have. And so christian pop-art is cheery and positive, praising God and being glad, and while all those things are fundamentally good, the ability to make anything more than superfically happy draws away to the periphery. Even looking at a musician like Bebo Norman, who, to his credit, has written some pretty heavy stuff, and then considering the singles deemed worthy for christian radio, it’s always his happy stuff about walking down a mountain and whatnot.

It’s seems the absence of ‘good’ christian art is, in itself, fairly easy to remedy. I’m not convinced that the general american church is ready or willing to be honest enough to embrace the cure.

said benjaminyoung

at 2:21am on Tuesday

GodTube is ripe for jacking. There’s a subversive jihad-garbed dude putting videos up there that mock the entire premise of GodTube — and his stuff reamains, I think, because the GodTube folks don’t understand the concept of satire.

I find that sad … and hilarious.

said blaine

at 8:28am on Tuesday

Facebook… I still haven’t figured out what the heck YOU DO on there.

Same thing you do on Buddytown.

… nothing.

said Cameron

at 9:23am on Tuesday

I think Derek Webb is a prime example of a Christian who is creative, but real. I digg his music, though his music is not necessarily what gets me. I do, however, so appreciate how honest he is. His music is not chipper and superficial. He’s one of the ONLY christian artists I listen to because he’s real. He’s not ‘divin’ in, goin’ deep, in over his head he wants to be…’ He’s saying ‘how can I go to war and kill the people that the Bible commands me to love (paraphrased)?’

Whether you agree with him or not, you have to see that he is one of few in the industry to ever really call the Christians to a higher standard of living. By that I simply mean thinking for themselves.

What gets me is the ‘WHY?’ WHY aren’t Christians the ones setting the standard? I see creative people around me that are creating amazing things, be it music, 3-d animation, websites, printed materials, etc. What I have seen, though, is that it is not those people who are being pursued by the industry. It’s the people that sound like someone else. Do we blame the industry? Do we blame Christians?
Do we blame anyone?

said Dustin

at 10:53am on Wednesday

wow. my uncle steve owns iv groups in nashville. he is a very educated fellow. he gets on godtube all the time and trumps people who regurgitate crap they heard from a friend or the latest edition of larry king. you can check out his xanga. sayuncle is his username. i don’t agree with bathing egotism in weblogs. but people who attempt to backup rubbish thoughts are fun. myself for example.

on the case of parody and cynical discussion, i think joel osteen is a prophet of the true gospel.

said nathan

at 1:53am on Friday

Thank You

said Alex

at 5:31am on Wednesday

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said Nathaniel Adam Briggs

at 10:02am on Friday

You guys should go over to http://www.TheOOze.com and read the articles, “Destroy the Christian Subculture parts 1 and 2, and also Consumption, Expression and Identity.

said Keith Giles

at 9:38pm on Friday

Cool.

said Ioannes

at 5:08pm on Friday

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