The Viper SmartStart allows you to start your car from your iPhone. It’s been added to my Christmas wish list.
I gave a talk at Northwest University today about what we’re doing at the church to embrace the internet and new media technology. Here’s the slide deck:
It went well! I was surprisingly calm, and was able to get through the entirety of my presentation with time for questions at the end. Of course, it helped that the subject matter was something I am passionate about and could ramble on about for hours.
Google is giving the gift of Wi-Fi this Holiday season, by providing free access at 47 airports across the country. (Via Daring Fireball.)
I love this post from Joshua Blankenship, “Creating Controversy for its own Sake”, particularly this quote:
It’s easy to “design” when you’re unencumbered by things like metrics, creative direction, business acumen, sales experience, actual functionality, enterprise scale, or any thought about how a site with millions of page views and users has to function.
If I may boldly infer, the summary of the article is that Generation Digital cannot let the quest for openness, transparency and change dictate our behavior – especially with each other. Without rules, governance (or consequences for rule breaking) and self-control, we would have anarchy.
Today I recorded my screen as I created a PowerPoint splash screen (or title screen) for a message series by our youth pastor. This is the sort of project I do regularly at The City Church – especially for Generation Church.
I thought it would be interesting to both document and share the video:
Some notes: