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 The Search for Online Truth
Blogs, Newswires, Dotcoms, and Reliable Information
Matthew Kinne
What is happening to the World Wide Web? Are the
UGCs and the experts actually in competition? Where can one find valid,
accurate information on the web? Does it matter if the information we
read on-line is verifiable? Does it matter to advertisers? And why is
valid, truthful information important?
These are the questions that rise when examining
the culture and trends in how information is created and presented on
the World Wide Web. So listen to the bell I ring as I say these words:
"Oyez! Oyez! Hollywood Jesus decrees this article an examination of
information dissemination and veracity on the Internet. Read on and
discuss its implications. Oyez! Oyez!"
Click through to read more as Matthew analyzes trends for what is being called "Web 3.0"...
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 Soccer is Life
(With Apologies to Football Fans Worldwide)
Melinda Ledman
After college, I gained about 20 lbs. sitting behind a desk for
eight hours a day and eating the same things I ate in college. I felt
gross, was tired all the time, and had lots of pent-up
aggression. I realized that I needed to play a competitive
sport with a team full of players who expected me to show up.
Then one day, I was invited to play at an international corporation
headquartered in my city. It wasn't an official game, just a group of
players who wanted to kick the ball around. These players were from every nation except America and it was during those weekly practices that I discovered real soccer: real football-the kind of soccer that American football and baseball fans will probably never know or understand.
These weren't the
unskilled girls of my youth, kicking at my ankles because they didn't
have the talent to get the ball away. Everyone on the field played multiple levels better than I did.
Click through for more of Melinda's look at the ways in which soccer mirrors our spiritual development...
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 The Worst Flu Season Ever?
For Lisa, Liz, Jenn, and Carolyn
What in the world is going on? How can a nation with some of the
best healthcare and medicinal treatment on the planet be chronically
suffering at the hands of tenacious illnesses (big and small)? The many
strains of flu viruses that attack each year are the least of our
problems (although my children with their runny noses and fevers might
argue otherwise). Cancer, heart disease, AIDS, and a host of other
illnesses are killing us off by the millions each year. What is with
this illness epidemic?
If we were to stop and look at it, we have to
admit that we live in a completely synthetic society-on all fronts. We
have moved so far away from simple, natural living that our immune
systems just can't handle it. The saddest part is that we are not
likely to be able to return (as a society) to a simpler way of living.
It's almost overwhelming to think about the ways our lives have moved
away from the kind of "natural living" that people have engaged in for
centuries before us.
Click through for more on illness, and Melinda's insights on the simple life...
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 Not What They Used To Be
Isn't It A Good Thing That God Didn't Settle For Less?
Aaron Lee
The Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life released its Religious Landscape Survey last Monday, surveying American adults about their religious affiliation.
Of American adults, 44% have changed their
religious tradition from that of their childhood. Why the change? In
part, because 37% are married to a spouse with another affiliation, so
they change out of compromise. Others have become disenchanted with the
ways of the church and find comfort in change.
This study isn't just about Christianity or Eastern religions, though. The fastest growing demographic in America
is "unaffiliated" (Agnostic, Atheist, "nothing in particular"): for
every one adult now identifying with a faith group, three more are
newly unaffiliated. More of them are under age 50 (71%) than the
general population (59%).
Why is the religious landscape shifting?
Click through to see how Aaron connects these shifts in religious thinking to what's happening in the presidential primaries...
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