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Thursday, January 27th, 2011CNN did a story today about a new development on Facebook. They are now beginning to use comments you make about companies in your Facebook chatter with friends as fodder for advertisements, referencing you (with your photo) as the one who recommended the company. It’s yet another way of monetizing friendship.
Trinity Forum Academy: Conference on Technology and the Human Person
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011Thanks to ImageUpdate for the heads up:
Join the Fellows of Trinity Forum Academy at Osprey Point [90 min from Baltimore and Washington, DC] February 11-13, 2011, to explore how technology is changing our understanding of what it means to be human. President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies and UN bioethicist, Dr. Nigel […]
5-Minute Book Review: Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith (Zondervan, 2009; 184pp.)
Taking a cue from my friend Sørina (Iambic Admonit), who does five minute book reviews, since she doesn’t have time for anything longer and simply won’t do them if she doesn’t set herself a managable time limit, I’m going to give it a try:
Flickering […]
Digital detox
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010Students at Earl Haig Secondary School in Ontario are choosing to take a week of digital detox. Good for them! Sounds like it was their own initiative. I am heartened to see that even the younger generation can sense the benefit of taking some time away from being constantly in front of a screen.
Friends or Fish? The Erosion of Privacy in an Online World
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010My latest article for Comment Magazine has been published and is available online:
Friends or Fish? The Erosion of Privacy in an Online World
Triumph of technology
Friday, October 15th, 2010I watched with great excitement, along with the rest of the world, as the 33 Chilean miners were brought up to the surface after being trapped for 69 days 2000 feet underground. The rescue was extremely well planned and perfectly executed. The whole event could have ended in tragedy, but because Chile took its time […]
Taking a Digital Sabbath
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010This seems to be a growing theme that keeps popping up in my peripheral vision. Maybe I’m more in tune to it and my network of friends knows I’d be interested, so they tell me about all these things. But I do sense that it’s an idea which is catching on.
The latest episode of the […]
Social Media Fasts
Sunday, September 12th, 2010Dave Parry of AcademHack (blog) wrote a post on Social Media Fasts the other day. His point was that they are a good idea but they shouldn’t be mandated from above. I agree. I prefer the idea of the voluntary week-long Technology Sabbath that students in a couple of dorms at Seattle Pacific University took […]
Forcing time offline gives you freedom
Friday, June 25th, 2010Ever have a day like this?
I find it happening more and more often. It can be an addiction, an obsession, a compulsion, an enslavement to the need to check for one more new message, follow one more rabbit trail, play one more move in Scrabble, find out one more factoid, write one more blog post, […]
Tech-addicted parents
Monday, June 14th, 2010(Photo credit: CBS)
Thanks to The Huffington Post for bringing to my attention a recent New York Times article and CBS segment on the problems of tech-addicted parents who pay more attention to their BlackBerrys or their iPhones than to their babies. Somehow we don’t seem to notice or are more forgiving when adults do that […]