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Facebook’s scary secret

Facebook’s scary secret Stephen Hutcheon October 8, 2010 What has been overlooked is the hoovering up of the digital fingerprints we leave in our online meanderings. Mark Zuckerberg preaches ‘radical transparency’, but what is he hiding? In the movie The Social Network, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is cast as a conniving, sociopathic ”asshole” who shafts his […]

Big Googler is doing the thinking for you

September 29, 2010 IN AN often quoted piece, Is Google making us stupid?, published in The Atlantic two years ago, former Harvard Business Review editor Nicholas Carr made the provocative argument that the ease of online searching and browsing affected our ability to concentrate. Carr wrote: ”My mind isn’t going – so far as I […]

Online Evangelism

The potential of digital media for evangelism and discipleship outside the West is growing dramatically. Mobile phones users now total well over 3 billion, while 2 billion access the Web regularly. The bulk of these are in the Majority World. There are 500 million users of Facebook in nearly 100 languages. Many in Africa and […]

The Facebook Effect

The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World By David Kirkpatrick Humanity ¢â‚¬â„¢s Database By DAVID POGUE Published: June 24, 2010 According to  ¢â‚¬Å“The Facebook Effect, ¢â‚¬  Facebook is the second-most-visited Web site on earth (after Google). The average member spends almost an hour there each day. It has more than 400 million active […]

20 Computer Viruses

1. PAUL REVERE VIRUS: This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It warns you of impending hard disk attack — once if by LAN, twice if by C:. 2. POLITICALLY CORRECT VIRUS: Never calls itself a “virus,” but instead refers to itself as an “electronic microorganism.” 3. OPRAH WINFREY VIRUS: Your 200MB hard drive suddenly […]

Baby Boomers Get Connected with Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2010 Living longer and richer lives, they go online to stay in touch . CFCCCE40] > Baby boomers have always been good communicators, as evidenced by their presence at sit-ins, protests, demonstrations and “happenings” in the 1960s. So it was inevitable that boomers would check out social media sites. “Creating and renewing personal […]

Religion and the World Wide Web

Conference takes look at religion in Web era Claremont School of Theology event analyses future of American Christianity, which participants say must embrace technology to survive. Just call them members of Church 2.0. READ ON

Censorship and the Internet

Interview: Encyclopedia Dramatica moderator 13:30 AEST Tue Mar 9 2010 By Henri Paget, ninemsn Encyclopedia Dramatica is Wikipedia’s evil twin. It’s a site where almost every article is biased, offensive, unsourced, and without the faintest trace of political correctness. A search through its archives will reveal animated images of people committing suicide, articles glorifying extreme […]

Twitter Theology

*Twitter Theology: 5 Ways Twitter Has Changed My Life and helped me be a better Disciple of Jesus* *By Leonard Sweet* I have been on twitter for less than a year, but it has already changed my life. Twitter is less than two years old, with fewer than fifty employees and, as far as anyone […]