Archives for the 'General' Category
Kids’ Time Online Surges
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
One doesn’t need a Nielson report to know that kids are spending more and more time online–63% more time than five years ago! This summary of the Nielsen report shows that kids are increasingly using the Internet more and more. In my opinion, there are some logical reasons for this increase including: 1) Entertainment. You [...]
Pornography once again targeting wireless market
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Once again, another article is talking about the pornography industry’s jump to wireless/mobile devices. It makes sense, as the article points out, that as higher-bandwidth networks are deployed and devices are better able to take advantage of those speed boosts that demand is increasing. This comes on the heels of a Bloomberg article a few [...]
Are younger people leaving Facebook?
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
An article on CNet reports statistics from iStrategyLabs that from January to July 2009 the number of Facebook members over 55 grew 513.7% and that there were 16.5% fewer high school users and 21.7% fewer college users. While the CNet article talks about the question, “are younger people leaving Facebook” I think the real key [...]
Pope Benedict’s Encyclical: Caritas in Veritate
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Pope Benedict has a large section–chapter six–on the Development of Peoples and Technology. Haven’t read it yet (only skimmed it) but this appears to make some very interesting and accurate insights. Read the encyclical here
Blocking Spam Sent to your Cell Phone
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Here’s a great little article on the issues about spam to mobile phones via SMS and some tips and tricks on preventing them: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10280533-94.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
iPhone App Store: Can it remain “clean”?
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
CNN has just published this story commenting about the recent string of nude and objectionable content that has appeared on some iPhone applications (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/06/explicit.iphone.apps/index.html) . Some of the content has been deliberate by the vendor. Those applications were promptly removed from the store once the issues were reported. However, when an application allows users to [...]
Happy Birthday iPhone Application Store
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
It’s mind-boggling to think that the Apple App store for the iPhone is only a year old…today. 50,000 applications later, it’s proven to be a huge boon to making the “smartphone” category of devices in reality more like a sub-laptop category of devices. It’s just a matter of time (estimates are 2020) that the mobile [...]
Seminar on Addiction at St. Vladimir’s Seminary
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I had a wonderful visit at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (www.svots.edu) this past Friday. The school was kind enough to invite me to speak on a day-long series on addictions. During the morning session, some frightening statistics about clergy training and substance abuse were disseminated. The statistics showed that overall, only about 12.5 percent [...]
Calendar Nirvana
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
This is a bit off-topic with my previous posts, but I’ve run email and groupware systems for almost 14 years. I’ve interacted with a variety of servers and protocols. Nothing has held more promise or given more headaches than the iCalendar (.ics) standard. In applications that natively support it (iCal, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.) it has [...]
Anti-Pornography Presentations
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Since 2005, I have had the privilege of representing the Greek Orthodox archdiocese on the executive committee on the Religious Alliance Against Pornography. Since the 2006 Clergy-Laity, we have been performing educational seminars across the United States on the topic of mobile pornography. Many have asked that I record this presentation so that it can [...]