This week, the number 10 trend on twitter was Maulid Nabi (also Mawlid). Maulid Nabi is a term used to refer to the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which occurs in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar...
This is a 3 minute TED Talk by Renny Gleeson about an emergent ‘culture of availability’ – a culture that doesn’t just allow or enable always-on connectivity, it expects it. The more connected we CAN be, the higher the...
This past fall, amazon announced the new kindle 3. And its price of $139 for the non-3g version. For someone who reads a lot, that reduces the ROI to less than a year's worth of book buying. That was the tipping point for me, so I put in a...
Image via Wikipedia TED‘s Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation — a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to...
Image by owlbookdreams via Flickr NaNoWriMo 2010 is going on write now. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it happens each November. The goal is to produce 50,000 words (unedited) of fiction in 30 days. Well this year, there is a...
Image via Wikipedia This year, the Luzianne Movement met at the Luzianne Dome in New Orleans, LA, for the third time in its illustrious history. However, there are doubts about its future because of the actions of some of the celebrity attendees of...
The past two weeks have brought to light the seemingly nefarious nature of various drinking practices that could be construed as heretically religious. These practices have been described as something in which Christians should not participate. I...
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter and the dazzling...