Category: Blogs | Social Networks | New Media
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Away From Here…
Was great to have Si Johnston here before he left for his big trip across to Mongolia by motorbike. Many of you may remember him from brilliant stuff he did with church.co.uk and The Truth Isn’t Sexy last time he lived in London. It’s a massive trip he’s doing – some 14000 miles to the…
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Hooked on Gadgets | Surfing the Net or the Net Serfing Us?
An excellent article in the New York Times the other day – ‘Hooked on Gadgets and Paying a Mental Price‘ – which explores the mental and relational cost of screen-addiction, plotting the story of one family who are all, in their own way, too hooked on gadgets: Mr. Campbell continues to struggle with the effects…
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SuiciPad | Expensive Machines Made by Cheap People
The iPad goes on sale in the UK tomorrow, and there will doubtless be countless smug faces like the one above, leaving Apple stores with new devices that will enhance their lives and make everything go so smoothly and swimmingly. So spare a thought for the exhausted workers who make these devices for us in…
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Twitter Procession
I’m not normally impressed by Web 2.0 mashups, but there’s something very beguiling about this Twitter procession, something of the human touch in it…HT Jenny Brown. Works best in full screen… click here.
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The Emerging Church is just a Marketing Phenomenon
A very interesting post popped up on the theology site ‘An Und Fur Sich’ yesterday, which was a quick critique posted by Brad Johnson, after his investigation into the movement prompted by ‘a mixture of morbid and genuine curiosity.’ His single perspective was to read Pete Rollins’ books, and his comments spring basically out of…
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New Apple Dates Announced | Thinking Deeply About Technology
Really pleased to announce that we’ve sorted out three new dates for Apple events over the next couple of months. The idea behind Apple is to get people thinking more reflectively about technology – whether that be digital culture or tool-use. Humans are tool-makers, and the technologies we use form us, just as we form…