Greenflame

Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand

Category: Digital Technology

  • Virtual booksigning

    A gadget that allows authors to sign books and meet readers while in another location. See Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Atwood sign of the times draws blank.

  • Pandora’s Box

    Had a play around with Pandora this afternoon. Enter in the names of artists and songs you like and it’ll find similar genre music and stream it to you. It works quite well, picking up songs that I’d never heard off but quite liked when they were played.

  • The Art of Creating a Community

    An article by Guy Kawasaki on generating community – Let the Good Times Roll–by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Creating a Community. Aimed primarily at generating communities to support business it has some points that would translate into building communities – particularly online ones – for other purposes. The article is being updated and revised…

  • New Zealand Short Films on iPod

    A year ago I posted a link to the New Zealand Short Films web site where, strangely enough, you could watch NZ short films online. Now you can download some of them as MPEG-4 files for your iPod. The MPEG-4 files should play in Quicktime on PC and Mac too.

  • Let’s patent emoticons

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – some lawyers and intellectual property “suits” have way too much time on their hands. See Cingular applies to patent smileys :@ | The Register and Cingular emoticon grab not so serious 🙂 say experts | The Register.

  • Caring About the Content

    Interesting article over at Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : Caring About the Content about children, blogs and community.

  • iGenre – iTunes and Biblical Studies

    I’ve taught at various times on the different genres present within the biblical texts and there are some students who find the whole concept of genre really hard to grasp. So several times I’ve set up a game show in class with student participants called “Name that Genre!” I’ve taken a variety of different pieces…

  • Underwater MP3 player

    Another example of human beings being colonized by technology – an MP3 player/swimming goggles combination. See SwiMP3.

  • Stephen Downes on blogging, the new web and education

    Looks good – when I have time I’ll download these lectures on web technologies and education. See Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes: Grande Yellowhead Seminar. (Hat tip to Tensegrities: Stephen Downes seminar)

  • Wikis and Blogs by Scientists

    Area51 (A NZ site/blog focused on “up to date medical technology news with a New Zealand focus where possible.”) has a link to and a brief summary of an article in Nature about scientists using blogs and Wiki’s to share information and collaborate with others. See Wikis and Blogs by Scientists – a new way…