Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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I was talking to someone today about their experiences about buying DRM audio books, and how in the end they gave up. Between grief with paying and downloading, installing a separate piece of extra software to play the books, and then finding on the bus that the software then wanted to authenticate via the net…
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I often get annoyed by the various ‘powers that be’ spouting on about faster broadband and how it will improve life and business for all in NZ because I don’t think speed is the issue – it’s data caps. Until broadband in general in NZ stops being charged by the bit (or subsidising that through…
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So it seems that the situation posited in William Gibson’s book "Idoru" back in 1997 comes to pass in some form in 2009. See Man marries virtual girlfriend | Stuff.co.nz. And this is interesting too – Church fined for blocking cellphones | Stuff.co.nz.
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Every now and then I ponder what happens to people’s different online presences when they die, but I hadn’t realized Facebook has a memorialization function for their accounts. See Social networking for the dead | Alan Wilson | guardian.co.uk.
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I don’t know if something like this (In-App Sales and iTablet: The Killer Combo to Save Publishing? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com) would work, but I really like something like that to buy and read comics and graphic novels on. If the screen was the same size as a printed comic book page and in…
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A week or two back I was talking with a colleague about the difference between between Facebook and blogs, and in particular how my use of those media intersects with different communities. My Facebook posts are restricted to a group of people I’ve selected, whereas my blog posts are more public. I select who’s in…
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This looks interesting digital nation – life on the virtual frontier | PBS Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world — a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast…
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Nice little article on the development of Mac laptops over the past 20 years. See From Mac Portable to MacBook Pro: 20 years of Apple laptops – Ars Technica. In order of the ones I’ve owned/used… Macintosh Portable (back in 91-93 for work) – very heavy, but the trackball worked well. Powerbook 520c – bought…
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In the manner of many examination and essay questions… Compare and contrast the perspectives of each of these people: Next-Wave Ezine – There Is NO Virtual Ecclesia by Bob Hyatt. The various articles by Mark Brown at: Articles for download at Brownblog, and especially: The Bible in the Digital Space Christian Ministry in a Technological…
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Henry Jenkins’ blog has had a number of interesting recent postings related to transmedia storytelling, computer games and various other things: Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Transmedia Storytelling and Entertainment — A Syllabus looks like a course I’d like to take sometime. Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: District 9 (Part One): Can a Bench Be…