News.com recently ran an interesting article about the news reading habits of web users.
One caveat to note is that the article does not say one-fifth of all people prefer online news - only one-fifth of web users. I suppose, in some senses, that we could even see that as a relatively lower percentage. It’s also a first-time study from Nielsen/NetRatings.
I’m commenting on it here because I think it is a trend (or the absence of one!) to keep an eye on. If more and more people begin to turn to the web to receive news (and especially if they increasingly turn to the web for local news), it deserves some attention from the Christian community.
How can local news portals, run by a local Christian consortium (churches, ministries, individuals, etc.), serve to help reach the world for Christ? We’re headed that direction with ChristianCruz.com and the as yet unlaunched SantaCruzLife.com. And Blews.net is a growing network of web-based projects headed in that same direction.
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
