The Digital Sanctuary

The recent Southern California minor earthquake caused a flurry of tweets in the twitterverse.  This is what it looks like on a Twitter-graph.

Twitter, the micro-blogging or social messaging service (SMS) has been embraced by communication's early adopters but hasn't spread in terms of mainstream acceptability yet.  In fact, according to Wikipedia, Twitter has only 2,200,000 [...]

Gabe Taviano has put up Episode 44 at God's Mac.com and on iTunes!
Gabe says' "Futurist, pastor, speaker and author, Erwin McManus, join us this week.  Erwin is the the pastor of the multi-site Mosaic Church in Los Angeles, California.  Be sure to check out his various ministries' websites in the episode links on [...]

Great post from my Anglican friend, Mark Brown, about changing times and what makes a good sermon.

This is today's afternoon update on the crash that killed Christopher Laurie in Riverside, California this morning.  You may leave condolences at the site above or on the personal website of Pastor Greg Laurie.
Addendum: here's an updated Christopher Laurie link.

The Worship Community.Com (TWC) is a grass-roots community of worship leaders, artists, singers, musicians, and technicians from all over the world. 
TWC was launched in the Spring of 2007 by Fred McKinnon, a worship pastor and small business owner. Fred has been involved in bring worship “online” for years, with the original HighestPraise.Com [...]

There's a company called Kronomy that will enable you to create a timeline of your life complete with descriptions, pictures and video.  Thus, you can share your story by making your life into a flowing visual slideshow via 3D browsing.  Kronomy also features social networking functionality including commenting, sharing, and friends.  Currently in beta, you [...]

The Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that GodTube is getting funding to the tune of $30 million dollars.
Christian video sharing site GodTube has landed $30 million from hedge fund GLG Partners at a $150 million valuation, according to PaidContent.org.
Launched last summer, GodTube reviews all video uploads, keeping them clean and pro-God.
It also [...]

Yes, I've finally paid someone to translate The Digital Sanctuary into Spanish. 
Oh, no wait, Google does that for me.  Free, of course. 
Check your own blog out in your favorite translation.   One of 10 New Media values I covered at the Dynamic Church Conference '08 – free services.

Looks like our tech-savvy friends at YouVersion.com have hit a home run with the release of YouVersion for the iPhone.  Having an interactive online Bible in your hand seems almost hard to believe – only the LifeChurch.tv digerati team, headed up by Terry Storch, have made YouVersion.com a reality.  And just in time for the [...]

 
This is the final post in the Barton Damer Interviews, a brief series designed to spotlight the visual media of an artist serving the Church in an innovative way.  Barton's work, an artistic feast for those hungry for new and creative ways to express faith, is easy to access through the links found below and [...]