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A Cup of Coffee and a Random Thought: Who put the ME in media?

By Sean | August 23, 2007

Earlier this month, Maria Johnson over at A Cup of Coffee and a Random Thought, posted about Who put the ME in media?. She is just one of many who have noticed that there seems to be a healthy and growing community of Catholics hungry for community who are gathering around Catholic podcasting. A few weeks ago, Greg and Jennifer Willits were on Catholic Answers Live. While listening live online I made a brief post on twitter and the Rosary Army forums to join me in the Rosary Army chatroom on Ustream. 10 people showed up and Greg and Jennifer weren’t even there (although Greg did peek into the chat room a couple of times). This was evidence to me of the growing community we’re building around Catholic new Media.

A couple weeks later, Greg posted a question on Facebook asking if anyone would be interested in a retreat with SQPN podcasters. Then, in Show 47 of the Catholic Underground podcast, http://www.catholicunderground.com/podcast/podcasts/episode-47-godmodding-and-catholicon/,
Father Chris, Father Ryan and Josh discussed the possibility of setting
up a Catholic New Media Conference (Catholicon? CatholiCamp?).

All summer I’ve been reflecting on this growing Catholic community so I jumped in and started a Catholic New Media Conference group on facebook. This
group could serve to guage interest in such a conference and help build
a community of Catholic New Media producers and users. Please send the
invitations far and wide. The hunger seems great for this kind of community. In two days, there are 46 members in the group.

All of this led me to start this blog. I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to do here but I thought I would start by showcasing and responding to Catholic blogs and podcasts that have been meaningful to me.

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