Greenflame

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

Category: Digital Technology

  • Now that the semester has ended and I’m clearing my desk (virtual and otherwise) of things that have accumulated there, here’s a list of links on media, religion and often the intersection between the two that I found interesting. Heidi Campbell: The Internet challenges and empowers religious institutions | Faith & Leadership. A Beginners Guide…

  • Helpful series over on appstorm on tools and advice for iPad use by different professions. See: The IPad And Professionals | iPad.AppStorm Includes journalist, musicians, photographers and filmmakers so far.

  • Slides from Dr Bex Lewis’ presentation ‘Engaging in Digital Discipleship’ at the Global Network for Public Theology 2013 meeting. http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/word-worlddiscipleshipdigitalage

  • A link to Universities Australia response to proposed copyright reforms in Australia and how that might affect higher education. http://www.alrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/subs/754._org__universities_australia.pdf

  • From TidBITS: Thoughts Prompted by Google Reader’s Demise, which came through in the email digest today. Just as email isn’t broken, RSS readers aren’t broken, and social networking services aren’t broken. We’re broken, because we’re both finite and hardwired to be interested in a wide variety of things: other people, tribes, power, sex, social position,…

  • Writing is not my default method for communication. I used to dread the start of the school terms because of the obligatory ‘write about what you did in the holidays’ essay. Words do not go onto paper easily for me. As Hemingway said, ‘There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at…

  • Okay, so the list of posts and articles about papal tweeting started to gather momentum before being derailed in the past couple of weeks. However, it appears while the current pontiff will stop twittering the @pontifex channel will remain available for future popes. See What happens to @pontifex after Papal resignation?. And here’s a bunch…

  • I quite like how Prezi can create a different perspective on a presentation, either as part of a person’s talk or as a standalone tool. But unless it’s done well it can be quite disorientating. Here are a couple of different presentations (just given for example, rather than as ‘good’ examples) I’ve seen recently that…

  • A recent list of some blogs focusing on church technology – may get my religion and media class to have a look at them in a week or two’s time. ChurchMag’s 2012 Top 20 Church Technology Blogs | ChurchMag

  • Playing around with Freegal at the Auckland Libraries See Freegal Music arrives at Auckland Libraries This new downloadable music service is now open for use by all library members. As the name suggests, Freegal Music offers free, legal music downloads, letting you pick songs from the vast Sony Music catalogue. All library members are permitted to…