Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Tim Berners-Lee was knighted in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. The BBC has a short story and biography at BBC NEWS | Technology | Web’s inventor gets a knighthood
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Neat site for all of you out there wanting to share and use iCal:iCalShare – Share Your iCalendars!
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Kevin Kelly puts together his “Cool Tools” list online. It’s an eclectic collection of useful stuff including both old and new things (e.g. a book on raising chickens makes it in). A few of the more recent postings are on the main page and then many others in the category links. Kevin Kelly — Cool…
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I don’t have an iPod yet (it’s on my things to buy that are probably techno-idols list) but I did see this interesting posting on the social dynamics of some iPod users. Seems that the little, white box opens the doors to a new, non-vocal form of community based on sharing one’s taste in music…
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The comments functionality on the blog appears to be having problems at the moment. I am reassured that I am not alone in this (see: comments not showing up). Sorry if you had something profound to say and you’ve been thwarted. If things don’t improve in the next few days I’ll have a look at…
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The “Smart Mob” crowd catch up with organized, passive resistance in the UK. See Interwebnet’s Chasing Bush – Tracking George W. Bush throughout his UK visit
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Thought about adding my iTunes “What’s playing now” to the blog using Kung-Tunes. Then I saw this article: Wired News: ITunes Undermines Social Security Playlistism, Aubrey explained, is discrimination based not on race, sex or religion, but on someone’s terrible taste in music, as revealed by their iTunes music library. Aubrey said an iTunes music…
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In my studies I have to use biblical Hebrew and Greek from time to time. SIL have some free fonts for both Mac and Windows which are quite helpful. You can find them at: The SIL Hebrew Font System Home Page The SIL Greek Font System Home Page May be useful for the millions out…
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Darren has been putting together some really useful information and tips about blogging over at his web site. He’s put them all into an archive that you can access at: LivingRoom >> A space for Life: Blog Tips Archives So if you’re an experienced blogger or just starting out why don’t you drop on by…
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The NZ government’s Ministry of Economic Development has a number of useful papers, articles and reports on Internet and technology use in New Zealand and the social issues attached with that. Some interesting ones include: The Social Impact of Information Technology – A Briefing to the Minister for Information Technology Statistics on Information Technology in…