Leo Laporte Crowd Surfs @Diggnation SXSW Rock Show
Leo Laporte has said time and time again that New Media is about the community and not trumped-up rockstars. He proved it Saturday night at the Diggnation show during the SXSW Interactive-media conference by trusting the 3,200 gathered to carry his body aloft from the stage toward the back of the gathered throng. Translation: the dude crowd surfed! And he live-video-streamed the whole thing! Now, that's trusting the community not to drop you on your head. Leo Laporte crowd surfing while live streaming @ Diggnation from Jeremy Johnstone on Vimeo. Here's the version taken from leo's streaming camera: Not to be ...
In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God – Not What You Think
I just finished read/listening to Karen Armstrong's The Case for God, and like waking with memories of a vivid dream, I want to get my thoughts down before they get pushed aside by the concerns of the day. In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God - Not What You Think I think that Armstrong did such a great job summarizing the book in her NPR/Fresh Air interview that the book feels a bit ponderous. What I mean is that this is a book that one really needs to pay attention to and no play as background music (ack, stupid multitasking ...
ePad – Rockin’ It Like It’s 1987
You know you have something going right when the spoofs are spectacular... Then we have this dream sequence/history of Apple's computer designs. Beautifully done, but I don't see how they could have left out the evolution of the iMac or iPod, except maybe they couldn't get the curves of their virtual rendition to look right... Finally we have the latest iPad ad, that debuted during Sunday's Oscar broadcast...
Gotta Keep Reading Video on Oprah’s Show Today
Got an unusual email from the boss, Dr. Ludgate, this morning saying that she wasn't going to be able to make today's graduation ceremony. Bummer. The reason for the absence was because the "Gotta Keep Reading" video that we'd assisted in creating with Ocoee Middle School was going to be a segment on the Oprah Winfrey show today. What? Oprah's people set up a satellite connection this morning so that she could talk to Ocoee Middle School principal Sharyn Gabriel, reading coach Janet Bergh and two students about the video, with the student body gathered in the same quad area ...
In Bad Faith, Part 7: Entitlement
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:11 ASV) It shouldn't be too surprising that in an era and place of unbridled abundance and wealth (that is the US in the 1970s and following) that these verses would be seen as part of the claim that we deserve good things and God has to give us what we want. Of the many mistakes I've made in my walk of faith, having a sense of entitlement, ...
FullSail Grads Comes Back & Grills Us on Web2 & Education
Nick Briscoe, Full Sail emdtms grad, talks with Dr. Deason, Dr. Ludgate and moi about Web 2.0 tools such as social networking and their use in education. This is the first episode of Nick's Educatium podcast which he's created with fellow emdtms grads Paul Martin, Aletha Williams and Emily Wray. They can only get better from this beginning video podcast. Really. Here's a bonus outtake of Dr. Siegel wanting to join in as we were setting up the interview:
Apple iPad Announced: Oh My God, It Doesn’t Have a Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper!
I love CNET. It's one tech news source where I can find everything from straight tech journalism to flawed editorials on the latest things happening in the tech world. Take the overhyped announcement of the iPad a little bit ago, CNET provided the following excellent straight news reporting on the event: Then there's this excellent example of the tech news analysis by Tom Merritt and Rafe Needleman in CNET's "Real Deal" podcast. The two put the iPad announcement into the historical context, looking at many of the previous, mostly failed, attempts to popularize the tablet/handheld class of computer. Make sure ...
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Leo Laporte Crowd Surfs @Diggnation SXSW Rock Show
Leo Laporte has said time and time again that New Media is about the community and...
ePad – Rockin’ It Like It’s 1987
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Apple iPad Announced: Oh My God, It Doesn’t Have a Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper!
I love CNET. It’s one tech news source where I can find everything from straight...
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In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God – Not What You Think
I just finished read/listening to Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God, and like waking with memories of a vivid dream, I want to get my thoughts down before they get pushed aside by the concerns of the day. In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God – Not What You Think I think that Armstrong did such a great job summarizing the book in her NPR/Fresh... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, Part 7: Entitlement
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:11 ASV) It shouldn’t be too surprising that in an era and place of unbridled abundance and wealth (that is the US in the 1970s and following) that these verses would be seen... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, Part 6: Is Your God a Tribal Strawman?
So, it seems to come down to this, I’ve had these experiences, experiences that I was shocked to read about in my first year religion course at Loyola Marymount in a book by Rudolf Otto called The Idea of the Holy. The Latin phrase was mysterium tremendum et fascinans, and I completely understood what the author was talking about. I felt connected.... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, Part 5: What’s Missing?
Abandoned Christian Science Building 3 by Maxwell GSDawkins wrote in The God Delusion that all experiences of “Faith” are delusions, that there is no god out there “talking” to you. He wrote that anyone with an ounce of intelligence recognizes that there is no “man behind the curtain,” and that the stories in the... [Read more of this review]
Following the Logic of Feelings
Some of my thinking lately has reminded me of this article that I wrote in the late 1980s about rediscovering the power and need to be emotionally alive. This article was part of a column that I wrote called “The Editor’s Wild Hair” for a little print newsletter that I inflicted upon friends and family called, “Air, Dirt &... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, Part 4: The Evil Media
A few months ago I saw this comment on my Twitter feed: “RT @vavroom: Sometimes, small minded Christianity really saddens me. (via @kubke @snowded @annemcx @euan )” – Christine Morris (@CMoz). And attached was a link to a story from the Telegraph in the UK about how a film about Charles Darwin was having difficulty finding a distributor... [Read more of this review]
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Global Map of Mercury
In December 2009, the first high-resolution global map of Mercury was made publicly available. These images are from MESSENGER, a NASA Discovery mission to conduct the first orbital study of the innermost planet, Mercury. Members of the MESSENGER team and experts from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) used images from MESSENGER's three Mercury flybys and from the Mariner 10 mission in 1974-75 to create a global mosaic that covers 97.7% of Mercury's surface at a resolution of 500 meters/pixel (0.31 miles/pixel). Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/U. S. Geological Survey/Arizona State University
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