Hey everybody – A brief couple of links for your enjoyment:

http://forum.wgbh.org/lecture/ethiopian-contributions-world-music-instruments – here’s a talk by Ethiopian musican, Mulatu Astatke on Ethiopian music

and http://www.twitter.com/johnpiper. Of note, John has employed an excellent pastoral use of twitter as a medium and has upped the ante a bit. In a 140 characters, he succeeds in getting people to 1) spend more than the passing 3 seconds on an individual tweet and 2) challenge people to a vertical line of site. What’s interesting is how he will invite the reader to ‘fill in the blank’ by omitting words that should be there. I had originally thought it was for the sake of space, but omitting them is more beneficial in that it requires the reader pursue the blank. It constantly surprises me just how well people are using twitter in really creative ways.