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Copyright vs free information-sharing (a new religion)
Sightings 1/26/2012 Shared Paradise – Robert M Geraci There’s a new flying spaghetti monster in the spiritual marketplace: the Church of Kopimism. The newly “established” religion has become the talk of the internet, in part because of its transparently “unreligious” outlook and in part because of the group’s social perspective. The Church of Kopimism, which received [...]
COMPUTER PASSWORDS
Jottings from a good article in the Melbourne Age’s Green Guide by Charles Wright (Sept 29, 2011): * One commonly available ‘password guesser’ can recover 24% of all passwords by using just 100,000 combinations: it can test several hundred thousand passwords in a second * The free open-source Password Safe site (bit.ly/1tqNES) helps you keep [...]
STARTING A NEW FACEBOOK PAGE/GROUP 15/09/2011
Dear FB friends, I’m allocating an hour or two today to mastering how to reach the hundreds of people I’ve ‘Not Now’d’ when they requested friendship. A good friend in a similar situation suggests the following, and I’d appreciate any help/comments/suggestions. (I’ve always been a consensus/let’s-do-it-together leader)… For example, do I really have to re-apply [...]
Science of the social network (Facebook et. al)
Forget the scare stories, what effect is Facebook really having on how we interact with each other? Nick Harding gets an anthropological insight Monday, 1 August 2011 GETTY IMAGES Previous research into Facebook tended to fall into the pop-psychology bracket or concentrated on specific subjects Anyone for a spot of Facebook bashing? Thanks to [...]
Darling, it’s over: Has technology made it impossible to have an affair?
Mobile phones, BlackBerrys, emails, social networking… Never before has it been so easy to cheat on a partner. But has technology made it simply too difficult for philanderers to cover their tracks? With evidence suggesting that fewer people are undertaking long-term extramarital love affairs, Nick Harding peers beneath the sheets and asks: is it the [...]
Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians
By Josh McDowell Atheists and skeptics now have equal access to our children as we have, which is why the number of Christian youth who believe in the fundamentals of Christianity is decreasing and sexual immorality is growing, apologist Josh McDowell said. (Photo: The Christian Post) Author Josh McDowell addresses attendees of the International Christian Retail [...]
Social Networks as Bearers of Bad News
Long-time readers might recall that a few years ago, I wrote an editorial titled “Email: Bad Bearer of Bad News?” In that article, I examined the pros and cons of using email to deliver bad news, whether to let someone know about an illness or death, to break up a romance or marriage, or to [...]
A Book About Facebook
Lynne M Baab, Friending: Real Relationships in a Real World (Downers Grove: IVP, 2011) Like 600 million people around the world and 10 million other Australians, I’m a Facebook user. Facebook has helped me connect with high school friends, keep in touch with family and friends living far away, discuss spirituality and theology, ask for advice on gardening [...]
Tribes: we need you to lead us
Seth Godin, Tribes: we need you to lead us (New York: Portfolio, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59184-233-0 Hardback, 151 pages Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw, Coordinator of Leadership Training, Baptist Union of Victoria; Pastor, Auburn Baptist Church It is in our nature to gather in tribes. Seth Godin describes a tribe as a group of people connected to one [...]
Cyber traps for young players
CHRIS MIDDLETON APRIL 11, 2011 Last week’s incident involving the use of Skype to demean a young female trainee at the Australian Defence Force Academy once again highlights the potential for inappropriate use of the internet to destroy young people’s positive sense of self. A few weeks earlier, Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan were severely embarrassed, [...]
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