Christina’s put together a blog to work through her research project on emerging church stuff. She says,

The purpose of this blog is to record the process of a research paper i am embarking on. in this paper i’m going to explore the trajectory that emerging expressions church, faith and spirituality may be on. in other words…if we can identify them as emerging then what might they look like in 10 years time.

Looks interesting, especially as she’s talking about the sources she’s using to do this.

More at: where are we going?

From the NZ Herald,

Research into indigenous New Zealand species is cutting the time it takes to rehabilitate devastated land with native plantings by a decade or more, says a company developing the plants.

Full article at: The New Zealand Herald: Planting with native ferns can save devastated land.

Opened the latest copy of the ATF (Australian Theological Forum) journal Interface yesterday and was met by a violent, hot pink cover (the photo does not do it justice). Once I got past that though I found that the issue (Vol.7 No.2 Oct 2004) was entitled “Stem Cell Research and Cloning : Contemporary Challenges to our Humanity.” Looks like it has some very interesting articles in it. Hopefully before Christmas I’ll be able to skim a couple.

As I’m still playing around with my digital camera and the panorama mode on it I was interested to see this posting on printing and framing panorama photos : DIY Large Panorama Prints.

Craig L. Blomberg, Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, reviews Bruce McLaren’s book “A Generous Orthodoxy” in response to observing its reception by some Christians as being equivalent to a Harry Potter novel.

Denver Journal – 7:0302 – A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-Yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian

Another from the Auckland Festival catalogue that intersects with my research – excellent!
Gina Czarnecki: Infected

Moving Image Centre presents a selection of new video works by artist Gina Czarnecki. Infected is a hybrid melting point of dance and digital imagery that confronts issues surrounding the convergence of biology and technology and possible corruption of the human genetic mix. Through the sensuality of the human body in dance and movement, Czarnecki explores where what is naturally possible ends and the digitally manipulated begins – asking the audience to consider “what is real, what is not, and does this matter?”

Nouslife: slide presentations -the rules broadens (and includes) Andrew Jones insights) on “rules” and observations on using presentation software. Some helpful stuff there. Almost a year ago I blogged Greenflame: PowerPoint Is Good/Evil on similar themes. I’m still looking for my “killer app” for presentations. Inspiration comes close and I’ll probably buy a copy in the next month or so but the integration with Powerpoint (or similar) was less than optimal last time I checked.

Just received my copy of the event guide to AK05 – Auckland Festival ’05 and it looks like there’s something for everyone.

Of interest to me in particular are events at the Corban Estate Arts Centre which is about 5-10 minutes walk from home. So I’ll be trying to get to Gleem – Multimedia Light Sculpture Festival. From the blurb,

Gleem is a free twilight festival of light-based art and intrigue set in the historic Corban Estate Arts Centre park. New media meets nature – be mesmerized by multimedia, interactive sculptures, live music, dance and theatre.

(More details also available here www.gleem.org)

Cellphones get broken by tight jeans according to a recent survey by manufacturer Siemens. Just one of the more common ways of destroying your mobile.

Reminds me of common notebook computer accidents – like leaving a pen or pencil on the keyboard and closing the screen. Or the incident a friend (who serviced notebook computers) told me about the guy who’d taken everything out of the boot of the car to repack it, forgot to put the notebook bag back in the car at the end, and reversed over it. Data recovered but case, keyboard and screen were history.

Article on how advertising might slip into podcasting (click on link to get Wikipedia explanation of that).

In Pondering Possibilities in Podvertising a variety of schemes are proposed (inserted audio ad, sponsorship, RSS ads etc.) as a response to those who like time-shifted audio (and video) content delivered to their MP3 player or similar.