(video demo of the software discussed below) Digital Bible Society I’d like to an organization that you’ve probably never heard of: Digital Bible Society (DBS). For the last 10 years or so, they’ve been putting together something called Chinese Treasures which was a CD (and later a DVD) full of Chinese language Bibles and theological resources.
Code Commentary Archive
bib.ly – a Bible Reference Shortener and Linker
The Table Project: Values Driven Technology?
2 Bible Experiments: Reading Plans and Instant Search
From time to time, I like to share programming experiments that relate to the digital world. Here, I’ve applied recent Internet memes to Bible tools. How Long Does it Take to Read the Bible? The first applies the minisite principle of creating a site that does one very simple thing (like isitraining.com or istwitterdown.net) to the question
ECHO Conference and MediaElement.js
My good friend Nathan Smith and I are giving a little presentation Friday at ECHO Conference. We’re not presenting on media ecology or anything theological, just good old straight forward web development. Nathan and I actually met over email when he was the web developer at Asbury Seminary and I was working at Dallas Theological
“World’s First” Augmented Reality Virtual Communion! (can ≠ should)
Every once in a while I like to do a code commentary where I program something to illustrate a broader point about technology (like the Bible reader or TwitterVoice3D). This is a demo of a relatively new and very cool technology called “augmented reality.” When I saw a demo for the first time, I imagined
Read the Bible: Greek and Hebrew Reading Experiment
For my BibleTech:2009 presentation (“Technology Is Not Neutral: How Bible Technology Shapes Our Faith“), I created an example site to demonstrate what I like to call “technological minimalism” in Bible software. In my seminary Greek and Hebrew classes, I often relied too heavily on my Bible software during translations and my ability to actually read
TwitterVoice3D: Creativity, Chaos, and Order in the Online World
A few weeks ago, I decided that rather than write words about a technology, I would write code using technology that would hopefully communicate in a way words cannot. Twitter Voice 3D TwitterVoice3D is an Adobe AIR app that shows all your friends’ tweets randomly strewn over a 3D world and reads the tweets to
