You gotta love it! A crew of 4 geek girls won the prize as best hack at the Yahoo sponsored Hack Day last weekend. Everyone seems to take note of the fact that the team was female. I'm taking note of what they hacked, a device called Blogging in Motion.
According to Michael Arrington posted at TechCrunch (see my techroll), Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others last Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day. After 24 straight hours of hacking, 54 projects were demonstrated to the crowd of about 400 people.
Over 3,000 pictures from the event, tagged “HackDay06″ are on Flickr here.
The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures.
In case you're a church leader and in case you're wondering if blogging is here to stay and in case you are asking yourself questions like: can my church use technology to serve people; should I start thinking about raising my tech bar; should I put up a pastor's blog? …..Just keep in mind that our congregations may be blogging our messages from their treos, cell phones, laptops and now purses while we're trying to figure it all out!
scary what a purse can do these days, lol
I’m pretty far behind on reading my feeds, obviously.
What a great point, Cynthia! It’s true, while the church might be fumbling around trying to decide to embrace certain technology, the congregation may very well be fully embraced and posting what they see, learn and experience.