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This is really the first Augmented Reality tool I’ve that that’s functional and easy to use.. although I think it’ll take Royal Mail a while to catch up! (ht)

I discovered this a few days ago whilst trawling around gumtree for bicycles:

Looking for peoples interested in being involved in the Glasgow DIY festival to be held at the end of September. Either organising events, running events, or attending.
We will be putting on a range of events, from DIY music to talks on [...]

I’m consistantly impressed with the quality of Rowan William’s youtube reflections on the church year.. it’s appropriate for the medium, and there’s been a bit more than the conventional “ehmm.. I suppose we’ll upload the sermon” approach to using  social media. Still waiting for him to begin twittering though..!
It’s interesting to watch the little trend of [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an interesting article on the legality of Obama’s gift of an iPod loaded with 40 show tunes to the Queen. Whoops!

Of course, no one thinks that copyright owners are going to send lawyers after either President Obama or the Queen over this. But none of us should want a world [...]

Following on from the previous post on microblogging and monasticism… discovered twitturgies today.. (ht jonny baker)

Google says its mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google often says that it believes ads are information.
What it doesn’t say, but clearly believes, is that you are information to be indexed, made accessible and useful.
[From Analysis: Google's Ad Targeting Turns Algorithms on You | [...]

Everybody seems to be getting quite excited about health and social media. It’s worth reading some of the original publications that the paper’s are quoting.. they provide interesting insights, and the scientific evidence base that’s being used is perhaps not quite a tight as it could/should be..
Aric Sigman kicks it off  in The Biologist | [...]

Rowan Williams popped up today on Twitter, although given that on his profile he preferred to link to the wikipedia article about himself rather than his own official page up until an hour or two ago, and his eclectic choice of people he chose to follow I’m a little suspicious! (the guardian thinks so too!)

craig2012 tweets “Church organs are technology”..

And I guess hymnbooks are a form of social media..

This year the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly sets the bar high in their integration of social media into the life of their conference.. very encouraging for future CofS ministers’ husbands!

Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.”
(McLuhan, p.207 New Media Reader)
I picked this quote [...]