Monday, January 23
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…when we come to it
Monday, January 230
…when we come to it
They made up their mind, and they started packing…
Ape, Man, Machine
It was Ariane Noelle Patterson’s 21st birthday, and she was grateful to be alive.
The Gardner-Webb University student took to her Twitter account on Jan. 17 and posted the message: “Thank you God for another year of life.”
Hours later, she collapsed during a religion class and was rushed to nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the Associated Press reports.
via Ariane Noelle Patterson, Student, Dies After Tweeting ‘Thank You God for Another Year Of Life’.
I was interviewed by Edy and Whisker for their Zombie Tech Podcast. We chatted about the history of Geeks without Bounds, how it was conceived, the role of social media vs traditional media, and how virtual volunteers can help.
We also talk about the ideas and applications that come out of hackerspaces, hackathons, gameification, and crisis mapping. We discuss the ramification and the ethics involved in the applications, IT departments and of course Zombies! Visit Zombie Tech to stream the whole episode or download the Diggz Zombie Tech Episode 22 mp3 here.
The Catholic Church’s pedophilia investigator, in charge of child protection and interviewing adults who as children had been victims of pedophile priests today was jailed on pedophilia charges in England. 49-year old Christopher Jarvis, a married man with four children of his own, began serving his 12-month sentence after serving the Catholic Church for nine years in a dioscese that included 120 Catholic Churches. Jarvis admitted to the charges, which included possession of 4000 images of pre-pubescent boys, including several depicting sadism, child rape, and torture.
via Catholic Church’s Pedophilia Investigator Jailed For Pedophilia | The New Civil Rights Movement.
It was pointed out to me by my friend (who prefers to remain nameless…no really) that I have been neglecting Diggz.org lately. This is very true. I’ve been busy working on other things like Tropo.com, GWOB.org and traveling quite a bit for both. Here and there I’ve had the opportunity to play some piano.
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to get back into the habit of posting content to Diggz.org. In the spirit of that, I’ve recorded a new edition of Johnny Diggz Live. I hope you enjoy…
Here’s the video that inspired me today: I’ll Be Back Beatles Cover
What is the future of voice, video, text and other real-time communications technologies? Where is the innovation happening? What does our communication future look like?
That was the topic of a video interview by Chris Pirillo between VoIP industry veteran Jeff Pulver and Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor. Conducted using a Google+ Hangout, Chris described on his own site what the interview was all about and then made the video available on YouTube:
Nico Alm is my hero.
More: Austrian Pastafarian: License Photo Was A Win For Freedom From Religion : The Two-Way : NPR.
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