Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Walking down Railside Ave in Henderson the other day and saw this old 8-bit Commodore 64 system with paddles, joystick and floppy drive for sale in the secondhand shop. Overcome with nostalgia (in a very geeky kind of way), I’ve put together a graphical timeline of various computer systems I’ve spent a lot of time…
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This looks like a helpful site with advice for setting up the WordPress content management system. It’s aimed at non-profits, but some useful basic information there. Source: Nonprofit WP: WordPress Guide for Nonprofits
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One of my tasks for getting the blog back up and going is to look at how software for the Mac, Windows and iOS has progressed over the past few years. I like using a client to write blog posts, rather than sitting in the WordPress editor in the web browser. It allows me to…
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An eclectic bunch of links today, focusing upon biblical literacy, religion and video games, and video games as a way of creating wellbeing. First up a new book from Heidi Campbell and Gregory Grieve “Playing with Religion in Digital Games (Digital Game Studies)” (Indiana University Press) Quick review here: Religion Book Review: Playing with Religion…
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With more students using web-based/cloud-based software to write their work up in, this looks like a useful addition for Google Docs – See EasyBib Bibliography Creator – Google Docs add-on. PaperPile does something similar but it isn’t free, RefWorks (if you have access to that) can sort of fake doing it too.
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[From Alban – Building Up Congregations and Their Leaders ]
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I’ve started following The Big Bible Project out of Durham in the UK (and not to be confused with Tim Bulkeley’s equally excellent bigbible.org and blog SansBlogue). It’s well worth a look. Some recent things that I’ve looked at over there include: TheoMedia by @byers_andy – a book review by @vahva The Social Media Gospel…
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One of my new colleagues forwarded this link to me today. Intriguing project comparing past and present activities in the same geographic location to see if mobile devices have changed the way people interact in that space. See Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All – NYTimes.com.
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Over the past year or so I’ve been using an older model iPad in my tertiary education environment to access various information and learning management systems and have, on the whole, been disappointed. The iPad works well for consuming media (provided it comes from a ‘kosher’ source), for reading email (but less so for responding…
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Two interesting articles on map-making – one in the fictional context and the other for the web with real world data. Both interesting reads. How to Make a Fantasy World Map | Tor.com. 6 Reasons to Get Over Your Fear of Coding and Start Making Better Maps – Wired Science.