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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Always on, always available, always connected—these are the buzzwords regularly touted by successful technology companies. Popular websites like Facebook and YouTube, powered by simple Web 2.0 tools, enable a broad range of users to author and share personalized web content. To improve efficiency and productivity, businesses demand technology that is standardized, modular, and easy to […]
Internet Addiction
Thursday, May 8th, 2008I couldn’t help chuckling at the irony of this, the left sidebar on the home page of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery (snippet shown at left here). So you’ve got an Internet addiction? No worries! Spend time on our website, reading our blog, shopping online in our bookstore, chatting in our addiction support group. […]
International Shutdown Day – May 3, 2008
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008I just learned that today is the second annual International Shutdown Day. Unfortunately the site is down (they must have taken their own mandate seriously and taken their server offline already), but you can still read about it here. So what am I doing online at 5:30am on Shutdown Day? My excuse is my day […]
Pray as you go: technology and prayer
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008I recently learned about a great website from a friend who has it set as her home page in her browser. Jesuit Media Initiatives has created pray-as-you-go, a daily podcast for a guided prayer time of about ten minutes. I’ve bookmarked it and now am trying to develop the habit of taking a prayer break […]
Aging, technology, and ministry
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Even though today’s seniors are more tech savvy than ever before, as people get older, their ability to deal with complex technology often declines. I sometimes wonder how those of us who are totally dependent on our computers and/or PDAs for everything will handle it when we start getting confused and forgetting passwords, having difficulty […]
Online “friends”
Friday, April 18th, 2008I had a conversation last night, in person, with a real life friend, about how the meaning of the word “friend” is being diluted these days, thanks to the influence of social networking sites like Facebook. A whole generation is growing up thinking that a “friend” is a contact, someone you are linked to by […]
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