Last week I read Steve Jobs, the recent biography by Walter Isaacson.
(The audiobook is about 24 hours long, and I listened to it in 12 hours on double speed. The narrator reads very slowly.)
Fascinating.
If I had to summarize Steve Jobs with just two words, I’d choose these:
Reflections on the book and the man:
Chapter 8 of this book is entitled “Mediums”:
John Dyer. From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2011. [endorsements]
“The message is the content we transmit from our minds to our audience, while everything that surrounds those words can be considered a medium.” Mediums may include “an email, a handwritten note, a phone call, a Facebook wall post, or any other tool we use to communicate” (p. 117).
Dyer makes three arguments about mediums (pp. 117–31):
Related: Among other things, John Dyer maintains the extraordinarily useful “Best Commentaries” site.
Tim Challies explains.
Related:
I shared some iPhone resources in January 2010, and now I’m ready to share some iPad resources.
I bought an iPad 2 when it came out in March (32 GB, black, Wi-Fi only), and I’m glad I did. Here are some resources that may help you use the tool more efficiently.
The iPad comes with several built-in apps, and over 65,000 apps are available through the iTunes Store.
Here’s a screen-shot of my apps (in addition to the built-in apps) as they appear in iTunes (click on the image to enlarge):
1.1. My Favorite Reading Apps
There are many other useful apps that I’ve chosen not to use for various reasons (e.g., PIM, news, sports). I use my iPad primarily for reading, and these reading apps are my favorites: [Read more…] about iPad Resources
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In addition to the blog, every page is redesigned with updated content:
God has gifted Phil with superb analytical and technical skills. He’s a gifted exegete and theologian as well as a technological wizard. And I’m grateful that he’s patient, too, because I regularly ask him for advice about exegesis, theology, and technology! If you don’t already subscribe to his blog, I’d highly recommend you do so via RSS feed, email, or Twitter. It’s called “Thoughts on Theology and Technology” and organized as follows:
In my post on iPhone Resources, I mention that Logos Bible Software (more info) is one of my favorite apps. Someone asked this in the comments:
Have you had a chance to use the Olive Tree Bible app at all? Any thoughts on comparisons with the Logos app?
I replied,
I haven’t used the various Olive Tree apps because my understanding is that Logos can do everything they can and more (esp. if you use Logos 4) for free. I may be wrong on that.
Well, I was wrong on that—at least for now.
Here’s how it describes itself:
Olive Tree Bible Software provides mobile Bible versions and study tools for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm OS, Pocket PC, Smartphone and Symbian cell phones. We currently offer over 500 mobile resources including over 100 translations of the Bible as well as commentaries, dictionaries, devotionals, eBooks, and Strong’s numbering system. The Bible is offered in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, Chinese and many others. Original Hebrew and Greek texts are also available. Additionally, we provide online web and cell phone (WAP) Bible search engines.
I got an iPhone this month, and it surpassed my high expectations. It’s amazing.
My 3GS model is 16 GB and weighs 4.8 ounces. That means that the little phone I keep in my pocket holds eight times as much space as the laptop I used from college through my first PhD (1998–2006).
If you have an iPhone (or iPod Touch), these resources may help you use the tool more efficiently.
The iPhone comes with several apps already installed, and over 100,000 apps are available through the iTunes Store.
Here’s a screen-shot of my apps as they appear iTunes (click on the image to enlarge):
Here are some practices I’ve found to be helpful:
I just came across an intriguing entry in Richard N. Soulen and R. Kendall Soulen’s Handbook of Biblical Criticism (3d ed.; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001), p. 53:
Electronic Hermeneutics refers to an emerging discussion concerning the rise of the digital age and its impact on religious communities and on the nature, place, and meaning of sacred texts such as the Bible within these communities and within the culture at large. Cognizant of how epochal shifts in the technology of communication have transformed human culture (as exemplified by the successive inventions of writing, printing, and the predigital electronic media), scholars are now investigating how the transition from printed text to the digital, mutlisensate worlds of hypertexts, hypermedia, interactivity, and “virtual reality” will shape human experience and communication. Biblical scholars have been among the first to make use of computer technology and to reflect on how changes in communication technology affect beliefs and practices. See W. J. Ong, Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977); R. Hodgson and P. A. Soukup, eds., From One Medium to Another: Basic Issues for Communicating the Bible in New Media (Kansas City, Mo.: Sheed & Ward, 1997).