Copyright Issues and the Church

Let’s get formal for a moment…Copyrights (©) give exclusive privileges to reproduce, perform, or display a literary or artistic creation or its derivatives. Trademarks (TM) are distinctive mottos or emblems that are identified with a specific product.
How do copyrights and trademarks affect you?

Verge 2010: Francis Chan (excerpts)

Here’s some highlights from Francis Chan at Verge 2010. The excerpts are taken from a transcription by Jon McIntosh
“Exodus 33:13 If God’s presence doesn’t go with us – then we won’t go. Is there anything else we want in life besides the presence of the Lord?”
“My motives in ministry have not been pure. “I want [...]

Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with the help of an iPhone first-aid app that taught him to treat [...]

A Gathering Force

“Picture yourself on an island with only a Bible. You’ve never been to a church-you’ve never even heard of one. The only ideas you have about church are what you’ve read in your Bible. Then you enter a building labeled “church” for the first time. What would you expect to experience as you entered that [...]

Deep Thinkin’

I really think 2K9 is really going to be one of those years where change happens. Not because it was a campaign slogan or the mantra of the new prez, but because 2007-2008 has really shaken some foundations and we’re all having to stop and do some deep thinkin’

Memorize Anything / Wired How To’s

 
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Analysis: Google’s Android Phone and the Four Carriers

The opening volley of official announcements from Google and the Open Handset Alliance bring good news for people sick of the carrier choke hold. Of course, it’s easy to spot who gets an Android device first: T-Mobile and Sprint. And it’s easy to understand why underdogs like them would be the first two carriers to [...]

30 Bad Tech Predictions

 
Submitted by Ken Gurley

1. “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.
2. “We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates
3. “Lee DeForest has [...]

The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

It’s easy to dump ire on analysts for getting it wrong so often. What those guys do, however, is provide a particular service to particular people. Interpreting what analysts say in terms of truth or falsity is to forget the real lesson we should take from Prof. Frankfurt: words build worlds.That said, here are some [...]