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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Should we trust Wiki?

Define line of accuracy Four out of five scholars said Wikipedia was accurate and informative. Four out of five scholars said Wikipedia was accurate and informative. June 21, 2007 In Wiki we trust – but do the experts? Michael Booth finds out. WIKIPEDIA, the people’s encyclopedia, is a multilingual, million-entry fount of knowledge from Britney […]

Sex on the Net

Listen Now – 22072007 |Download Audio – 22072007 Whether adults like it or not, the Internet is where life’s at for young people now – friendships, games, school stuff, comedy, adventure and sex. Teenagers are getting used to coming across pornography, and dirty old men. Sometimes they even turn the tables, and play indiscreet games. […]

Satirical ‘Christian’ websites

Betty Bowers http://www.bettybowers.com/ The Fundie Follies http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lilyth/fundies.html God Co. http://www.angelfire.com/pq/godco/frames.html Jack T Chick Museum Of Fine Art http://members.aol.com/monsterwax/chick.html Jesus of the Week http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/ Landover Baptist http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ Normal Bob Smith http://www.normalbobsmith.com/ Pray For Satan’s Salvation http://www.normalbobsmith.com/satanssalvation/ True Christian Chuch of Christ http://www.truechristian.com/index.html Fundamentalist Funhouse http://fundamentalistfunhouse.blogspot.com/

Politics and the Internet in Australia

Politics and the Internet No one really knows if the Internet will be a force for a new kind of democracy, or just another (albeit miraculous) technology. Shifting sands in demography, voter behaviour, and the world wide web, are all challenges for political campaigners. Pitfalls and successes abound. Reporter Sharona Coutts. This transcript was typed […]

If you think you’ve got a computer virus…

(From a netfriend:) … Sing this to the tune Ghostbusters: theres something weird , in your email box, who you gonna call? Hoaxbusters http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#virtualcard Why do people keep on getting taken in by this stuff? snopes.com is another good place to check before you go blasting off the equivalent of a ‘reply to all’ about […]

Forgive me, somebody: Has internet become 21st-century ,confessional?

Forgive me, somebody: Has internet become 21st-century confessional? Written by David Briggs, Religion News Service Tuesday, 10 April 2007 Food was becoming an obsession bordering on worship, and the addict wanted to confess. But not to a priest or a minister. The distraught person went to the computer. “I have lost friends, jobs and opportunities […]

The Blogs that ate cyberspace

Dan Silkstone April 7, 2007 *I*T HAS been the most extraordinary rise, and it happened while you probably weren’t even looking. In just under a decade, the blog has swamped the virtual world, multiplying at a rate usually seen only inside Petri dishes. Some now say it is poised to deliver a killer blow to […]

Blogs for Beginners

Dear Rowland Thanks for the invitation to explain for beginners, how I add pictures onto my blog sites but first let me give some background, tell you why I am blogging and what I am discovering about this medium. *Blog #1: Rallying Point and Noticeboard* Since moving to the United Arab Emirates I have been […]

Cyber-stalking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ&NR=1

The Digital Generation

Changes or transitions have always evolved, and in the past we were able to accommodate them without feeling threatened by having to abandon old traditions or ways of thinking; however by the 1950s change exploded into a geometric progression introducing a radically new world that only those born in the past few decades can fully […]