I rarely post twice within the same day, but over the weekend the inspiration for this post just started to surface itself. I felt I had to somehow document the effect one priest half the world away from me had on my life. And then perhaps, I shall come to a conclusion of ALL that is happening. *evil grin*
In 2005, Father Roderick Vonhögen started the Catholic Insider podcast. That triggered an avalanche of podcasts with Catholic content, by Catholics, for Catholics. SQPN was founded soon after, and before one can say “SQPN, the BEST in Catholic New Media“, most of all our favorite Catholic podcasts were rounded up and have become part of the ever-growing SQPN family.
Then sometime last year, the “Rod Father” introduced us to the world of Twitter. Before one can count the number of wonderful podcasts featured on the SQPN website, almost all of SQPN fan community were tweet tweet Twittering away. I joined Twitter too, almost immediately after hearing Father Roderick talk about it on the Daily Breakfast. It was a calling I could not resist.
Next Father Roderick convinced us to embrace Facebook. I tried to resist, having heard unpleasant stuff about other social websites like MySpace, but resistance was futile. Before I knew it, all the friends I made on Twitter were on Facebook too! I had to go, I HAD.. to.. BELONG!
Father Roderick also taught us to uStream. His “live” stream has made most of us captives, including me. We were addicted. We threw away out TV sets and started to embrace our computer monitors, our eyes glued to video stream of our favorite podcasters.
Just when we were all content with following each other on Twitter and playing Scrabulous on Facebook. Father Roderick taught us the ways of FriendFeed. Almost all of us, including myself, swarmed over and started an account and added everybody we knew.
Less than a week later, Father Roderick invited us to Plurk. Now ALL of us are addicted to Plurk. At least I am. Even the most resistant among us have succumbed, one by one.
Meanwhile, Father Roderick continues to experiment with new Web 2.0 tools like Ping.fm, Last.fm, Britekite, etc. And just like the little children following the Pied Piper’s pipe, we all followed with reckless abandon.
The conclusion is obvious. Father Roderick may not be just the simple priest as he claims himself to be. He is.. the Pied Piper of the Web 2.0 era!
That Son of a gun priest also has me (a fat kid) running!!!
Ok yes. He has lost of use doing things that we would have never thought we would have done.
Yes, Yes. I would have to say the same thing. but you know if it was not for you and myself and other people we would not feel so comforable moveing around and chicking things out with him. so thank you