Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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This is so, so cool. What an amazing way to interact with digital technology. I kept watching and thinking that would be great for this and this and this. That photo lightbox app is just like parts of iPhoto or similar should be like. See Jeff Han on TED Talks
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A reasonably long, and sometimes bitty, article on social media’s use by teenagers and tweens over at MediaShift . Media Usage::Finding Balance in Teen Use of Social Media | PBS. One comment that stuck out as I scanned it, Kids and teenagers have very little freedom in the real world. It’s not like back in…
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These wee beasties look interesting if you’re looking for easy ways to get video/audio into a video iPod. Being able to shoot video or have a video source, convert it and upload it to the iPod or PSP with little or no need for a computer looks helpful. See iRecord in one touch and Neuros…
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A whole bunch of related links that I don’t have time to flesh out. From Paul there’s fishers, surfers and casters » Web Ministry 101 and fishers, surfers and casters » Sydney Anglicans’ new site. Related to this is an older article by Stephen Downes – Stephen’s Web ~ Turning God and Learning into Commodities.…
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Article on Ars Technica that points to recent surveys that show teen email use is down, and technologies like IM are more in vogue at the moment (see Teens: E-mail is for old people). User Friendly responds to this here and raises a good point about the nature of interactivity. If you want responsive and…
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Over at The Digital Sanctuary: Internet Evolution Cynthia points to the new Pew/Internet report Imagining the Internet which surveyed the opinions of various stakeholders in the Internet. Related to my previous posting is their assertion that a substantial number of them are concerned about the role of autonomous technology in shaping future societies. Of course,…
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Before & After magazine has a few PDF articles that you can download – teasers to get you to subscribe to the magazine. One of these free articles is a nice one on choosing a readable typeface for a publication/presentation. Via ProBlogger: Which Font is Best for Blogging?. Darren has a few extra comments there…
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If you use iPhoto and post images from it to a Gallery2 website then Karl’s post here might be of interest. See XK72 Spacelab – blog of Karl von Randow » Blog Archive » Gallery iPhoto Exporter Gallery iPhoto Exporter Gallery2Export is a plugin for iPhoto that enables you to export photos directly from iPhoto…
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An interesting article from a while back (2000) by Jeffrey Rosen on the loss of privacy in cyberspace. See The Eroded Self In cyberspace, there is no real wall between public and private. And the version of you being constructed out there – from bits and pieces of stray data – is probably not who…
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Does anyone know if Sente from Third Street Software is any good for managing bibliographic data and handling citations in word processing documents. I’m currently locked into the MS Word/Endnote system, but I wouldn’t mind having the option to try out Mellel for academic writing (which Sente supports as well as Word).