Mike Wendland is switching back to Plain Old Telephone Service.

Chris Lanier gives a list of more podcatchers besides iPodder and iTunes.

Glenn of Vine Hosting directs our attention to Gizmo, a new Skype competitor that could be even better:

1. No limit to the number of people on a conference call
2. Has voicemail
3. Uses SIP and interoperates with SIP IP phones everywhere at no charge (according to Glenn)

Worth checking out.

This is what Irving Bible Church calls its “Digital Community“. It’s mainly forums, including prayer requests. A busy design, but hip.

This new toolbar from Skype integrates with the Outlook address book and provides presence information. I haven’t tried it yet.

Mike Wendland has dropped his regular phone line at home in favor of SunRocket VoIP service. $199/year for unlimited local and long distance calling. It’s no longer an experimental thing; it’s real.

Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web gives some stats showing that Technorati has become the top blog search site.

Here’s an article on Facebook posted this evening on MSNBC.

People are comparing this new Yahoo service (now in beta) to del.icio.us. I haven’t had time to play around with either one.

In this post, Dave Winer explains how companies can and should use blogging to find out what their customers are thinking. It’s not fun to be publicly criticized, but it’s dumb to miss out on the conversation because failure to take legitimate customer criticism into account will open an opportunity for competitors.

Richard MacManus agrees.

I believe this thinking applies to the church as well. It resonates strongly with Adam Hamilton’s ideas in his book Leading Beyond the Walls. As church leaders, we have to work very hard to keep up with what is happening outside the four walls of the church. Yet that’s where the unchurched people are that we’re trying to reach.