by Rob Culhane “‘Bye and thanks for the ride”. It was my favourite expression I’d shoot as I closed the car door as a teenager hitch hiking down the east coast of Australia and around Tasmania in the late 1970’s. I wouldn’t let my kids do it now, but it’s time to drag my favourite […]
I just read that YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are merging. It’ll be called You-Twit-Face.
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In Google we trust: our new faith * Paul Sheehan * September 7, 2009 Millions of words have been written and broadcast about the rise of religion around the world, but rarely included in the discourse is the most powerful new spiritual force of them all. For hundreds of millions of people there is a […]
FACEBOOK GOES ON SALE They say you can’t buy your friends, though a new service from an Internet-based social media marketing company is about to prove that old adage incorrect. uSocial.net — the company who recently began selling followers on Twitter — has just launched a new suite of services for Facebook, enabling people to […]
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http://www.the-rockgarden.com/ (nearly all Rikk Watts, long sermons) http://www.ntwrightpage.com/ (NT Wright stuff, includes links to other sites containing audio/video sermons and talks) Richard Rohr’s Homilies – http://www.cacradicalgrace.org/getconnected/homily.php These are able to be streamed, or downloaded and listened on the MP3 player.
From a Facebook group: Dear Friends, One of the constant challenges when placing material on-line is to produce readable text that can be spidered by search engines, produced quickly and is of a small enough file size to be accessed by those in the developing world using dial-up connections. OK – that’s a whole bundle […]
Mark Brown On the Facebook group ‘The Digital Revolution and the Church’ 7 June 2009 G’day! Today I preached my last message in the Anglican Cathedral of Second Life and chose to focus on the future of Virtual Ministry. I pointed out that research shows a majority of Christians don’t regularly attend church and stated […]
From a friend: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?q=article/304048/microsoft_ charity_crackdown_spurs_boycott&fp=&fpid= Microsoft charity crackdown spurs boycott Charities prep for open source What’s “open source”, you ask? In practice, the Linux operating system and other software. Anyone for Ubuntu? http://www.ubuntu.org (or its other flavours, notably Kubuntu http://www.kubuntu.org or commercially supported Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/, or Novel’s SuSE 11.1 http://www.novell.com/linux/) — I’ve used them […]