The Digital Sanctuary

The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has published the results of their project, "Surveying the Digital Future."  The seven years of longitudinal research comprise an absolutely unique data base that completely captures broadband at home, the wireless Internet, on-line media, user-generated content and, now, social networking.
This year's report contains [...]

As previously mentioned, I'm archiving the posts I've written at Leadership Network's digital blog here. 
The following was originally posted on on Sept 12, '07:
 
5 New Media Tips for Church Leaders
Hopefully, the posts here at digital.leadnet.org will create an online archive of resources that both take the mystery out of the new media and create [...]

Read/Write/Web reports this week:
The Library of Congress and photosharing site Flickr have announced a partnership that will put photos from the LoC’s collection online in a social environment and users to interact with them. The Library is home to more than 14 million photographs and other visual materials, and to start they’ve selected about 1500 [...]

 
Last year, Robert Scoble created this Social Media Starfish – a diagram depicting some of the forerunners in the New Social Media.  The image was designed to organize the numerous recent online technologies that create opportunities for conversation.  Since the New Media are primarily social, they display a new value system with attributes not found [...]

Greg Atkinson, the multi-media maverick behind Church Video Ideas, is recommending this list of sites if you’re searching for HD resources:

Bluefish.tv – Essentials Vol. 1-3 has HD stills, countdowns and loops

BluePonyDigital – This mainstream company has a worship line of HD products

Digital Juice – BTBF uses their HD backgrounds, as well as use their products [...]

I've been a fan of Collide Magazine since the first time Scott McClellan sent it to me.   Billed as the place Where Media and the Church Converge, each issue confirms Collide will be a resilient, relevant and resource-filled read for interested Christians.   Collide features informative articles by insightful experts who have God's heart for harnessing [...]

I'm archiving the posts I've put up at the Leadership Network's blog here now for cross referencing.   

The Church and a bit of technology  (9.5.07)

Let's take a deeper link.
The opening statements of my graduate thesis read:  “The increasing emphasis on the production, storage, and distribution of information demands that the field of [...]

Last year, I only interviewed 3 book authors at The Digital Sanctuary.    

Margaret Feinberg – The Organic God

                    Delightful & prolific author in love with the pure nature of God
                    Read the interview here, part 2, part 3
 

Shane Hipps – The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture

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Howard Rheingold is an unorthodox professor.  You can google his curriculum vitae and/or find his video resume somewhere online.
Don't try to limit him to any particular academic institution; he's spoken and/or taught and/or presented widely in the US – Stanford, Berkeley, USC Annenberg, etc.
Oh, and don't try to limit him to any particular group, medium, [...]

Evidence mounts that watching a full length tv show may now be too lengthy for the average attention span of the future. The ultimate research resource for studying online trends including Internet diffusion and penetration, etc. is the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Although Pew has been covered extensively here (i.e. – Lee [...]