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About the Talk
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
About the Speaker
Clay Shirky’s consulting focuses on the rising usefulness of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to centralized and institutional structures, which he sees as self-limiting. In his writings and speeches he has argued that “a group is its own worst enemy.” His clients have included Nokia, the Library of Congress and the BBC. Shirky is an adjunct professor in New York University’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches course named “Social Weather.”
Here are some reads I found really interesting and wanted to share them with you:
1. An Intrinsic Interest in God by Brenna Phillips. People have an intrinsic interest guiding their quest for knowledge. I began to think specifically as a children’s minister and how to apply that to a child’s intrinsic interest in understanding God and faith.
2. Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist – But Not for Long at Scientific American Mind. To investigate whether someone like Bruce Wayne could physically transform himself into a one-man wrecking crew, ScientificAmerican.com turned to E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do. Zehr’s book, Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero (The Johns Hopkins University Press), due out in October, tackles that very question.
3. Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter at Scientific American Mind. During slumber, our brain engages in data analysis, from strengthening memories to solving problems.
4. The Mr. Spock Guide to Effective Blogging by Copyblogger. When the author sat down to write about the need for rational, logical planning for your blog, he found no better model. Sure, blogs are personal, emotional constructions. But if your blog isn’t performing the way you want it to, try using a little Vulcan logic to move it in the right direction.
5. Networked structures: Liquid v. Solid church by Alan Hirsch. If Apostolic Genius expresses itself in a movement ethos, it forms itself around a network structure. And once again this tends to be very different to what we have come to expect from our general concept of church.
6. Paris Hilton mocking and ad by John McCain at Fox News. This is a real funny story and a funny video (at the bottom of the article. Attention…Paris in a bathing suit.
According the Variety, Disney has purchased the right to a script called “All About Adam”. It follows the biblical Adam as he trails Eve to modern-day Gotham after they have a lover’s quarrel. Adam discovers Satan was behind the breakup.
Jesus Christ Superman
Superman seen in many ways through eyes of beholders — us
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — First there were the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Now, for many Christian moviegoers comes another gospel.
As the hype machine shifts into high gear for the upcoming release of “Superman Returns,” some are reading deeply into the film whose hero returns from a deathlike absence to play savior to the world.
“It is so on the nose that anyone who has not caught on that Superman is a Christ figure, you think, ‘Who else could it be referring to?’ ” said Steve Skelton, who wrote a book examining parallels between Superman and Christ.
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