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Archive for February, 2010

Ubiquity is coming

Friday, February 26th, 2010

This explains it better. Social media makes life the ubiquitous game. http://g4tv.com/lv3/44277 Xbox 360 Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5 +200 points for reading this.

Ubiquity has arrived

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Back in the early 1990′s (when I was about 16) I read an article in Scientific American that predicted what was then termed “ubiquitous computing.” It predicted that the importance of hardware would decrease (indeed, it’s no longer about the $5000 computer, it’s what you can do on the $50 phone) and that the ability [...]

Dithering on Mandatory Options #openinternet

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

The Australian reports that there is growing division in government ranks about the mandatory internet filter (H/T EFA).  Labor Senator Kate Lundy’s blog spells out one of the alternatives being considered. The way I read it, the alternative is that it becomes mandatory for ISPs to provide internet feeds with varying levels of filtering from [...]

Review: One Church, Many Congregations

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

One Church, Many Congregations is a fascinating little book. Written from an American Baptist context it explores what the authors call the “Key Church Strategy.” While the book is very closely tied to this strategy and occasionally assumes some familiarity with both the Strategy and its associated material and jargon, it does put forward some [...]

COW Prize – Stephen Conroy

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Comment of the Week goes to Stephen Conroy himself.  As noted by Michael Wyres, it’s somewhat out of context, but here’s the quote from an interview on ABC Radio National: “You can’t regulate the Internet”

Is a Church Planted or Built?

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Nathan considers the interesting question of whether there is a better analogy for church “planting.”  He suggests: We should be thinking of churches like broadcast towers. We want to be a country that has full ministry coverage – ministry available in every area. An interesting thought and it certainly has some strengths: This metaphor also [...]

My names is Will Briggs and I vote

Friday, February 19th, 2010

I have to tell you that because apparently Tasmania is encumbered with the same laws about discussion of the election on the Internet that was noticed in South Australia recently.  Picked up by Digital Tasmania and Tasmanian Times: Consumer Group Digital Tasmania, supported by a number of organisations and concerned individuals has today written to ask [...]

Understandable Open Internet Arguments

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Stephen Collins has some decent things to say in opposition to the Internet filter.  Apart from some consideration on whether filtering opponents should change their language (who wants to be against something “clean” for instance) he outlines a “consistent framework for couching #nocleanfeed arguments”: Here it is, and it’s so simple your Luddite family members [...]

Intimacy? Sex?

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Honour → Security → Intimacy → Sex It’s something we picked up from a book that we give to all the couples we prepare for marriage prep.  The basic thrust of it is that great Sex is built upon a foundation of Intimacy which is built upon a foundation of Security which is built upon [...]

Alpha Male

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

When I grow up I want to be like Bear Grylls. Even before I saw this: