Category: Technology
The World and Everything in It: Facebook Timeline
That’s the name of the radio news show that our friends at World Magazine launched a few months back. Spearheaded by publisher Nick Eicher and his golden voice, it’s probably the closest thing to NPR by a distinctly Christian outlet...
Digging Down to the Substance of Things
Trevin thinks that when it comes down to it, the curiosity of the blogger makes the blog: The best blogs are a combination of the two. The blogger has a curious nature, and this curiosity manifests itself naturally in his...
Top Posts for June and July
Here are the top 10 posts from the past two months at Mere-O: I unpacked the music of Terence Malick’s beautiful Tree of Life and how it should affect our understanding of it. I examined parents who allow their children to have sex...
Blogging as Letters to our Future
Alissa Wilkinson: So maybe we can think of blogs—at least the good ones, and maybe even ones like these—as letters, if not to friends, to everyone, to the future: here is who we are, as it unfolded in real time;...
Self-Quantification and the End of Wisdom
photo © 2008 Porter Novelli Global | more info (via: Wylio) Self-quantification has a strong allure precisely because it combines two deeply rooted promises of American culture: that we will achieve technological mastery over every part of our existence, and...
The Meaning of Mediation
John Dyer is continuing the conversation about mediation, and doing it in classic Dyer style–thorough and sensitive: One way of distinguishing between a cultural good and a medium is to say that a cultural good mediates meaning between a community and an...
The Next Story: A Review
Note: Eric Eekhoff is a reader of Mere-O. When he was a member of the Christian blogging community, he established himself as one of the most thoughtful observers of the intersection between theology and technology. I invited Eric to write...
Christian Web Conference: A Few Parting Thoughts
I just got back late last night from the Christian Web Conference, a gathering out at the alma mater that I’ve been involved with for several years. While I’ve enjoyed every conference I’ve been at, this one was particularly fun...
Marx: Administrative Tyranny?
As I mentioned earlier in the week, there’s been a great discussion going over at Bensonian.org on Terry Eagleton’s book Why Marx Was Right. As an avowed non-Marxist, I was somewhat surprised to be invited to participate in the discussion,...
Who’s Afraid of Marx?
Christopher Benson at Bensonian.org, has unveiled his introductory post on the blog tour of Terry Eagleton’s newest book, Why Marx Was Right. Organized by Yale University Press, Christopher’s site will have four different reactions each to a different chapter of...