Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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I love maps. It’s as simple as that. So I’m enjoying looking at the material Worldmapper has available.
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Having my laptop go AWOL is something I’m always worried about. There are some useful thoughts (albeit from a Mac perspective) about minimising the damage of this over at TidBITS Safe Computing: What I Learned from Having My Laptop Stolen.
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I love the idea of netbooks, though I’m not ready to get one myself. I don’t think the infrastructure is quite here yet to support them as an everywhere tool (e.g. the cost of data via wireless or 3G), but one would be very useful to throw in my backpack to work in things or…
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C4LPT Learning Network has a useful looking section A Guide to Social Learning provides a practical guide to getting engaged with social media, and understanding their use for formal and informal learning. Hat tip to Mary.
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Dylan Horrocks posts on why he, as an artist, opposes Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act that comes into affect in February. See Dylan’s Blog: Why I oppose s92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. See also: Creative Freedom Foundation
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See! A ‘holy’ reason to get an iPhone. High-tech prayer book – Religion and beliefs – NZ Herald News
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A couple of interesting video links from Mary over at Tensegrities that have been sitting in my snippets folder for that last little bit. YouTube – What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable. YouTube – The New Media Literacies Related to the second link is the recent report – Parental Engagement in Children’s…
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It’s been a month or so since I posted about my experiences with the Parallels and VMWare Fusion demos. Since then I’ve installed Vista on a Bootcamp partition and that seems to run nicely (though logging in takes for ever) and had a chance to use the demos to access Vista off the Bootcamp partition…
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The digital divide and how it impacts upon ministry contexts is something I’ve been thinking about again recently, so I was interested to see this article this week, which highlights some new dimensions to the problem as digital systems develop. In The New Digital Divide, Sojourners Magazine/January 2009, Andrew Sears notes that: You can see…
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I hate trying to think up passwords and domain names. Guaranteed to make me go blank. So any suggestions for a domain name for a website that refers to science, religion, technology and media would be appreciated.