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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 […]
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 […]
Getting quoted in publication…cool!
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Al Erisman quotes me in the latest issue of Christianity Today in an article about technology: The Face-to-Face Gospel and the Death of Distance. Thanks to Don Lundgren for the heads-up about this!
Technology to fill the spiritual void?
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Source: http://www.socialsignal.com/image/wwj-buy
How NOT to search with Google
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010I am frequently amused by the ways people find me on academia.edu, where I have a page describing my research and writing on faith and technology, among other things. Academia.edu lets me see what keywords people have been using on Google when they find my page. Some of them are what I’d expect, and it’s […]
Information Needs a Compass, Not a Clock
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Sorry, nothing new and original by me today. I hope to get around to writing up a review of Barbara Brown Taylor’s talk, which was excellent (and not as much about technology as I’d thought it would be from its title). But for now, here’s a great article by a blogger I’ve begun following lately […]
“Biblical Narrative in the Age of Twitter”
Saturday, April 24th, 2010Those of you in the Vancouver area might be interested in this upcoming free public lecture at Vancouver School of Theology by Barbara Brown Taylor: Tuesday, May 11 Biblical Narrative in the Age of Twitter Free Public Lecture #2, 12:30 pm at VST’s Chapel of the Epiphany In an age when both young and old […]
My friend’s journey towards being more skep-tech-al
Monday, April 5th, 2010I have a friend named Leif Hansen who has been an inspiration to me in the struggle between wanting to spend less time online and yet feeling drawn to it. Both he and I have a love-hate relationship with technology, and we both go through periods of wanting/needing to take significant time away from it […]
New policy
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Due to the increase in spammers trying to register as subscribers on this blog, I have instituted a new policy. If you want to register to be able to post comments, you will need to send me a personal email. You can find my contact info on the About page.
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