Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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iPodNN | Podcasting raises church attendance. I guess that it depends on the quality of the content delivered. If some of the services and sermons I’ve heard were podcast I’m sure it’d have the opposite effect.
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Wired News: Beyond Porno: Free IPod Content has a list of various podcasts (audio and video) as well as other material for your video iPod/iTunes.
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Interesting posting on storytelling and digital creativity at Craig’s blog – mountain masala: the hyperrhetoric of the quilt of the quilt.
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Brief article on some NZ software that can be used to help make collaborative ethical decisions – primarily in the health sector. See Stuff.co.nz: Software matter of life or death.
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Following up from Paul’s comment a day or two ago, here’s the information on pigeons as internet media. Pigeon-powered Internet takes flight | CNET News.com BBC News | SCI/TECH | The net takes to the air
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Tim finally publishes his thoughts on the interaction of RSS and commenting on blogs. Namely that the more RSS and its analogues (e.g. Atom) are used to “consume” blogs the less one is inclined to comment directly on the blog being read. A quick skim and if it’s interesing a link from your own blog…
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Related to that last post some more commentary on religion and gaming – hopefully the author will draw out his assertion of “a strong relationship between consumption and faith.” See both Water Cooler Games – iBelieve – social commentary goes meta and the related Serious Games for Religion and Religious Institutions.
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IST Results – Robo-rodent gets ‘touchy-feely’ with artificial whiskers. Robots that ‘feel’ objects and their texture could soon become a reality thanks to the innovative and interdisciplinary research of the AMouse, or artificial mouse, project. See also IST Results – Embodying artificial intelligence for some general discussion on A.I.
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I like the Apple web browser Safari but I often had problems with it under Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and 10.3 (Panther) around its inability to send a “deep refresh”. In Firefox I’d click Ctrl-Refresh to get the most recent page (and in IE I could do similar) but the web toolkit that Safari…
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I was looking up some things on the Waikato University web site today and saw this. A brief news article on the front page on the downloadable Greenstone digital library software developed there being used by various organizations around the world for things like aid and development work. For a list of various projects and…