A friend recently asked if I’d seen any churches using location and check-in tools like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Facebook with their ministries. The Google Trend image above shows they are quickly gaining popularly, but personally, I haven’t come across many ministry oriented uses for them. So far, check in technology seems to be focused on [...]

I confess that now that the US is out of the World Cup, I have not been paying much attention to the matches, but I have still been hearing an interesting argument come up from time to time. Some have been complaining that the new ball is causing problems and that a newer, better ball [...]

Jack and BP Every day we are bombarded with images of the horrific damage the BP oil spill is doing to the Gulf Coast region. When we see these pictures, we love to express our hatred of BP and demand that they pay for what they’ve done. We’re so mad that we get mad when [...]

At this week’s D8 conference, Steve Jobs made an interesting comment regarding the coming shift from PCs to tablet computing. When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. But cars eventually became more prevalent is people moved to cities. PCs will be like trucks…they are [...]

Disclaimer: Let me start out by saying that you should absolutely positively not visit www.chatroulette.com. It is most certainly NSFH (not safe for holiness). <~~ lame Christian joke. What is Chatroulett.com? For the past few months, Internet news sites have been reporting about chatroulette.com (wikipedia link), a website created by 17-year-old Russian student Andrey Ternovskiy. [...]

Last Saturday was the National Day of Unplugging created by the Jewish technology advocacy group Reboot. Today. British charity Practical Action offers us No Tech Day which encourages tech addicts to see if they can give up phones, laptops, and consoles for a day. They allow you to tell your own story or nominate someone [...]