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Social Networks as Bearers of Bad News
Long-time readers might recall that a few years ago, I wrote an editorial titled “Email: Bad Bearer of Bad News?” In that article, I examined the pros and cons of using email to deliver bad news, whether to let someone know about an illness or death, to break up a romance or marriage, or to […]
A Book About Facebook
Lynne M Baab, Friending: Real Relationships in a Real World (Downers Grove: IVP, 2011) Like 600 million people around the world and 10 million other Australians, I’m a Facebook user. Facebook has helped me connect with high school friends, keep in touch with family and friends living far away, discuss spirituality and theology, ask for advice on gardening […]
Tribes: we need you to lead us
Seth Godin, Tribes: we need you to lead us (New York: Portfolio, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59184-233-0 Hardback, 151 pages Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw, Coordinator of Leadership Training, Baptist Union of Victoria; Pastor, Auburn Baptist Church It is in our nature to gather in tribes. Seth Godin describes a tribe as a group of people connected to one […]
Cyber traps for young players
CHRIS MIDDLETON APRIL 11, 2011 Last week ¢â‚¬â„¢s incident involving the use of Skype to demean a young female trainee at the Australian Defence Force Academy once again highlights the potential for inappropriate use of the internet to destroy young people ¢â‚¬â„¢s positive sense of self. A few weeks earlier, Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan were severely embarrassed, […]
In Defense of Virtual Church
Douglas Estes, author of SimChurch, responds to critics of online churches. by Douglas Estes A myth is growing in some circles of the blogosphere that online church is not good, not healthy, and not biblical. If we read carefully the criticisms levied against internet campuses, they boil down to some very common and tired themes: […]
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
By Lev Grossman Time, Feb. 21, 2011 On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I’ve Got a Secret. He was introduced by the host, Steve Allen, then he played a short musical composition on a piano. The idea was that […]
HOW THE INTERNET STARTED
A revelation with an Incredibly Big Message (IBM)…. In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called […]
Prayer of St Francis wasn’t written by Francis!
Facebook friend David wrote: “Hi Rowland [The Prayer of St Francis was misattributed!) Since so much has been digitised, it is easy to look through the published works of an author and see if they ever said what people said they said. So many misattributions! e.g. Voltaire never said his most famous saying! That was […]
Your place – on a map, and in a photo
Click on the www below TYPE a postal any address in the world and you will see the location on a map and also photo of the place ! Incredible! The link: http://www.vpike.com/
Google: its future is your future
Google ‘more than a search engine’ Broadcast: 21/11/2010 ALAN KOHLER, PRESENTER: Information may not be knowledge, as Albert Einstein put it, but it certainly is powerful. And as Google has worked out, not a bad little earner as well. Google started as a search engine, but thanks to the incredible success of its business model […]
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