Technology – Page 25 – Kester Brewin

The Irony of Planking: Only in an Internet Age

May 17, 2011

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Technology

Tragic story been on the news about the guy who died falling from a seventh floor balcony while attempting to has his photo taking ‘blanking’ on the railing. It was 5cm wide. One of my first thoughts was this: only in our internet age. For those who don’t know what it is – as I…

Happy Birthday Earth: 50 Years Old Today

Apr 12, 2011

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in News, Technology

Very special day today: 50 years since the first human being orbited the earth. On 12th April 1961, Yuri Gagarin was launched by a Vostok rocket into space, and completed an orbit of the earth. He became an international celebrity and travelled the world to talk about his trip and promote the Soviet Union. 50…

Direct to Kindle: ‘Into Great Science’ available now

Mar 14, 2011

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in Arts, Books, News, Technology, Theology

Amazon now allow anyone to publish to their store using ‘Kindle Direct Publishing‘ so I’ve uploaded a short story called ‘Into Great Science’ which I wrote last year. “Fumbling, floating, he found the hammer, and headed for the window…” In lean times NASA has gone into partnership with the Catholic Church, launching a ‘Voyager’-style probe…

Integrating Facebook, WordPress and Twitter

Mar 8, 2011

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Technology

WordPress is fantastic, but a lot of people are using Facebook now as their portal into the rest of the web, so I thought I’d share some stuff for other bloggers I’d found on integrating the two, with Twitter too. I’ve recently come across the WordPress plug-in WPBook. I think it’s great, and if you…

The Empathetic Civilisation | Dirty Heaven [1]

Feb 28, 2011

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in Emerging Church, Technology

Thanks to my friend Tom for putting me on to this RSA Animation: Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. Empathy is something I explore in some depth in Other, and it is,…

Emerging Revolutions | Fighting the Power | The Gospel and Twitter

Feb 16, 2011

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in Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Emerging Church, News, Politics, Technology, Theology

I want to retain a healthy skepticism about the power of Twitter and other social networks to bring about substantive change. There has been a lot of hype about the Green revolution in Iran, and whether it was tweeting that caused it, and I’d be tempted to side with Malcolm Gladwell – substantive change comes…

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