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Friday, October 9th, 2009Sorina Higgins wrote a wonderful essay on Facebook for her literary theory class and posted it on her blog and (ironically) on Facebook. She writes about how Facebook has its own mythological language in which it perpetuates fictions, but some of its fictions spill over into the physical world and become reality. The article ends […]
How to Deal with Technology Overload
Thursday, October 8th, 2009PBS MediaShift’s 5Across videocast (October 2009 episode) presents a discussion between Leif Hanson (a Regent alum friend of mine, founder of Spark Interaction, and presenter of SoulTech workshops), Dom Sagolla (one of the creators of Twitter), other technology/media experts and a psychologist. Great stuff. Credits and guest bios can be found here.
CBC Archives: Internet – a “modulated anarchy” (1993)
Saturday, September 19th, 2009Here’s a fascinating and quaint look at the Internet back in 1993, when it was a bit more civil. CBC interviews playwright and Internet enthusiast John Allen. Some choice quotes: “It feels a bit like everyday human fellowship, but it’s bigger and more precise.” As if “everyday human fellowship” needed improving upon? The imprecision is […]
Google Books and the Espresso Book Machine: the bookstore of the future!
Saturday, September 19th, 2009I came across this article today: Google Books and the Espresso Book Machine: Instant Paperbacks from Digital Books This is cool, but I also hear the death knell of small independent bookstores which can’t afford a machine like this. They were already dying anyway, but this puts another nail in the coffin. There’s little room […]
Ben Stiller on Twitter
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Stiller discusses Twitter with Mickey Rooney (a voice of wisdom)
Does God tweet?
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009There’s an interesting panel discussion on social media in today’s Washington Post “On Faith” column. Thanks to new digital technologies, you can ‘tweet’ prayers via Twitter to the Western Wall or prayer requests to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. You can pray the rosary or pray the hours from your laptop. You can participate […]
The God of technology, or the god of Technology?
Monday, August 10th, 2009Dave Evans has a good article on faith and technology in the latest issue of Comment. Some key quotes: The key is not just the technology’s availability, but how available it makes us. The purpose of technology is to buy us more time to be available to other things, or to makes us more effective […]
Faith to move mountains, or just ingenuity?
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009A retired Michigan carpenter named Wally Wallington has figured out how to move rocks weighing 22,000 lbs. using only his own strength, gravity, and extraordinarily simple ancient technology. Pretty amazing! Archaeologists and engineers have been mystified as to how prehistorical people could have erected the huge pillars of Stonehenge (according to Wikipedia, “various authors have […]
Humorous commentary on how we take technology for granted
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy How quickly we become incapable of living without things that so recently were amazing new inventions. Our sense of wonder is replaced by an attitude of entitlement. I agree with comedian Louis CK. Perhaps we should spend some time every now and then going back to the “old ways” of […]
Flutter: spoof of Twitter
Thursday, June 18th, 2009This is really funny!
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