Category Archives: Our Technological World

I haven’t used the new Windows Phone 7 so I have no idea how good it is, but I do love the concept of this ad: The ad is pretty funny, but I especially love how they poke fun at … Continue reading →

The Way We Live Now – a parent of a home schooler imparts some excellent principles about technology. [HT: Alan Jacobs] Every new technology will bite back. The more powerful its gifts, the more powerfully it can be abused. Look for … Continue reading →

This weekend, I took my kids to a nearby park and while we were playing I met a little Russian girl named Sasha who was there with her grandmother. The grandmother was a native of Russia and didn’t speak much … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Below are posts I found interesting from around the web in the last month or so. How Facebook Killed the Church – A very interesting argument about the impact of social media and cell phones on church attendance. Professor Richard … Continue reading →