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Sermon Cloud

Drew Goodmanson and Monk Development have recently introduced Sermon Cloud. Here is a brief description:

For the Community: Sermon Cloud is a website for a community to interact with sermons. What are the powerful sermons people are listening to? Who are the up-and-coming preachers of the day? Where are the messages about themes that you need to hear? How can you find a great preacher in your home town? Sermon Cloud was designed to help you with all of these questions.


For Churches and Preachers: Sermon Cloud offers churches FREE Advanced Sermon Syndication & mp3 services. Are you interested in podcasting, syndicating and using all the other 'Web 2.0' buzzwords for your church? Sermon Cloud Features include Resampling mp3’s to be optimized for the internet, Syndicating content (Integrating directly into iTunes store, syndicating through RSS feeds.), Displaying recent sermons on your church website, Podcasting mp3, Sermon Streaming capability in our Jukebox player, Tagging System, Commenting on sermons, Community recommending sermons, Searching for sermons and more...

I think this is an excellent idea and look forward to seeing churches implement technologies of this kind. Click here to create an account and get started.

Be sure to check out Ekklesia 360, the power behind Sermon Cloud, if you haven't already. Ekklesia 360 is "designed from the ground up around best-of-class technologies, which allow churches to leverage the online medium for their community and communicate their vision to the world." if you haven't already.

Technorati Tags: christian+culture, church, Ekklesia360, mp3, preaching, MonkDevelopment, Sermon+Podcast, SermonAudio, SermonCloud

Jimmy Wales TED Session

Jimmy Wales @ TED. Jimmy is the founder of wikipedia (here is his wikipedia entry coincidentally). He explains the goal of the wikimedia foundation, how wikipedia functions, how much it costs to run, and why it has been successful.

"Wikipedia begins with a very radical idea..."

Wales then addresses the issue-- if you begin with such a radical idea, how do you end up with an encyclopedia that's not total rubbish?

Download the audio | Download the video

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Is Jesus the Next Killer App?

Is Jesus the Next Killer App? Greg Sandoval (CNET)

LAS VEGAS--Tech companies are getting religion.

Companies such as Sony, Panasonic, Avid and Hitachi are helping churches spread the gospel as part of an effort to cash in on an exploding market known as "house of worship technology."

In recent years, members of the clergy have begun competing with MTV, video games and the Internet by jazzing up sermons with image magnification systems and large-screen video displays, a la Apple Computer's Steve Jobs at a product launch. The trend has evolved, and churches now are Webcasting to distant parishioners with sophisticated multicamera operations and pumping up the volume inside worship areas with state-of-the-art sound systems.
(full article)

iPope: Pope Benedict XVI Now Rocks an iPod Nano

Vatican Radio Employeed Present Pope With Specially Loaded iPod Nano

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A group of Vatican Radio employees gave Pope Benedict XVI a brand new iPod nano loaded with special Vatican Radio programming and classical music.

To honor the pope's first visit to the radio's broadcasting headquarters, the radio's technical staff decided the pencil-thin, state-of-the-art audio player would make the perfect gift.

Accordance Releases Ancient Christian Commentary Module

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture Vol. 1

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Assorted Flickr Gadgetry

spell with flickr
retrievr
Clockr (Windows)
ten best flickr mashups (wired)

Accordance Blog

Users of Accordance Bible software should be excited to see the arrival of the Accordance Blog "News, How-tos, and assorted Views on Accordance Bible Software." (yes, Brian, Helen is posting!)
(HT: The Macintosh Biblioblog)

Technorati Tags: Accordance, Apple, Bible Software

Eyephedrine Visualizer for iTunes

Eyephedrine Visualizer for iTunes

Eyephedrine is an OpenGL 3D visualization plug in for iTunes which renders your preferred music with 70+ different visualizations where real 3D entities react to spectrum and waveform values using advanced OpenGL techniques like multiple layers blending, realtime cube mapping, reflections, motion blur and light bloom. Eyephedrine can also handle Cover Arts, not only to show these pictures in Track Info Area but also, with the exclusive texture replacement (optional but recommended!), to create infinite combinations of colors.

A welcome replacement for iTunes standard visualizer!

Technorati Tags: Eyephedrine, iTunes, iTunes plugins, Macintosh

Gibbard on the Mac Intel Commercial

postalservicemusic.net

It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers' new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for 'Such Great Heights' made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties that this was executed without our consultation or consent. -Ben Gibbard, The Postal Service

Technorati Tags: intelMac, Macintosh

Snap Decisions & Church Web Sites

Seth's Blog: Blink:

There's a long-running school of thought on the web that surfers make snap decisions about a web site. In The Big Red Fez, I said three seconds. No, said others. They said sites need to be deliberate and dense.

I was wrong. They were wronger. AJ points us to: news @ nature.com. Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye. Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.

Forget about your blog, what decisions are people making about your church web site?

UPDATE:
The folks @ Church Marketing Sucks have picked this up as well You Will Be Judged Mighty Webmaster