Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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A bunch of recent links to things related to faith in the digital world. Twitter’s direct line to God linking Twitter to create paper prayers for Jerusalem’s Western Wall. America Magazine – Religious Life in the Age of Facebook (hat tip to Paul) Introducing the Uniting Church in Australia Blog: Cyber-church anyone? YouTube – Hebrews…
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Digital Faith Exploring the contours of faith in our digital world How do the Christian faith and the Internet impact upon each other? What place might the Bible have in our digital world? Come and join us as our panel of expert speakers engage with these topics and others relating to issues of faith in…
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Cute article on resurrecting old personal computers for modern tasks – love the Apple II and C-64 web server idea. See Reboot for the retro PC relics | Stuff.co.nz.
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Encarta, of which we use CD/DVD and internet versions, is disappearing. Somehow I figured it would last a bit longer. And I preferred my kids starting their homework assignments with it (at least as a first survey point) rather than just Googling-away for stuff. Anyway, the links are here: Encarta’s demise speaks volumes – at…
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Some recent links from around the net relating to religion online / online religion: Pope2you – internet social networking from the Vatican Muslim clerics deliver Facebook edict | Stuff.co.nz When Religion Meets New Media: iMuslims is coming A Brief History of the Anglican Cathedral in Second Life at Brownblog
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As someone who loves maps this looks cool. The ability to slide through time for different cities by making different layers appear. See HyperCities. (And there’s a write up on it over at Historical Map Mashups Turn Cities Into Glass Onions of Time – Webmonkey)
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One of the things I’ve done over the past few years is talk in seminars etc. about how faith and technology might relate – focusing on how technology is as much our environment as ‘things’ we make and use. The conversation often takes the turn that talks about how one might use something like a…
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Sentient Developments: Moving objects with your mind has a video clip of one of the new range of toys that use a wearable interface that ‘reads’ your brain’s activity to control physical objects.
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A guest post over at “Per Crucem ad Lucem” by Bruce Hamill raises some good points about all the noise about Susan Boyle and what that says about our own judgmentalism. See Susan Boyle: Judged by Beauty
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Science & Religion Today: Do Kids Have Different Virtual Morals? Science & Religion Today: Is Neuroscience the Next Culture War Front? Youth Survey: Teens lose faith in droves – Canada – Macleans.ca Slashing through the Information Jungle: The Cyborg story