The Digital Sanctuary

   Google Zeitgeist 2006
google| Etymology: misspelling of googol -10 to the 100th power | Meaning: search
zeit·geist| Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
Originally, Google used the Stanford University website with the domain [...]

The Pew Internet Project has released its second report on The Future of the Internet.  The report, issued on September 24, 2006 from Pew in Washington, D.C. is a survey of Internet leaders, activists and analysts.  The experts and analysts assess the future of the Internet and make educated predictions.   Although [...]

 
 WIRED NextFest         Experience the Future
 
SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 1, 2006 JAVITS CENTER /  NEW YORK CITY
WIRED's vision of a new world's fair, WIRED NextFest is a four-day festival of innovative products and technologies that are transforming our world. Patterned on the great World's Fairs of the past, this year's NextFest in New York [...]

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Within the last two years we've crossed an invisible line in the United States.  According to Nielsen Media Research, there are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and only 2.55 people.  Thus, there are more tvs than humans!  (Just like in California where there are more licensed realtors than houses sold.) [...]

   Celebrate the Internet….
Oh, and the World Wide Web, too! 
Today, Friday, September 22, 2006 is One Web Day and will be celebrated around the world in various brick and mortar cities and all across cyberspace.  In celebration of the changes the Internet has fostered in each of our lives, we are each providing 10 ways [...]

Scott Bland, another 'Bible on iPod' convert…
"My experience as a busy believer, husband, entrepreneur, and now Dad, was and is a lack of quality time with God.  I knew when I accepted Christ almost six years ago that I’d need to start reading the Bible with some frequency; finding the right time to do [...]

 
The Pew / Internet & American Life Project, a highly respected research organization located in Washington, D.C., produces data analyzing online trends.  Pew research covers diverse topics including Internet penetration, broadband adoption, blogging and a variety of other online pursuits.  Pew findings are designed to give us a better understanding of online activities (who is [...]

Proof that a rigorous scientist can also be a serious believer in a transcendent Creator can be found the book The Language of God. The longtime head of the Human Genome Project and a former atheist, Francis S. Collins makes a strong case for how evolution could be orchestrated by God in this provocatively issued [...]

A new study by The Barna Group (Ventura, California) shows that despite strong levels of spiritual activity during the teen years, most twentysomethings disengage from active participation in the Christian faith during their young adult years. The report, issued September 11, 2006, concludes twentysomethings continue to be the most spiritually independent and [...]

Could the process of recording our lives empower us to change the way we live for the better? Is it possible that technology will provide us with a more vivid and concise way of gaining insight into our missteps be they social, professional, financial, emotional or spiritual? And furthermore, [...]