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DDoS of God

December 10, 2009

And, yea, I shall delve into the archives for something to write about, for you may know me as a fisher of compliments, but I say unto you, I have become as a fisher of posts.
On the 19th of October the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites suffered a Distributed Denial [...]

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Parsis in the Digital Age

October 11, 2009

One of the things that really interests me is how archaic and minority religions survive their various diasporas. AFP published a piece on how Parsis are using digital and social media technology to contact one another and bolster their religious identity. This can be anything from Zpeakerbox, an online zine for Zoroastrian youth to Facebook [...]

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Death 2.0

October 1, 2009

The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and the New York Times have all recently grappled with the notion of ‘digital afterlife’ – the online legacy left by the deceased. I particularly liked the Huffington Post’s assertion that “In the virtual realm, there is life after death.” Oh what religious ideas that notion might [...]

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What does your Facebook info say about you?

September 6, 2009

I left the the Political and Religious Views fields on my Facebook profile blank, partly because I don’t subscribe to any easily definable school and partly because they’re not really anyone’s business. But while I might be jealous of my own privacy, I have no compunction scouring other people’s profiles to see what they’ve entered. [...]

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Strict seminarians have to share an email account

August 31, 2009

Just like in the Stone Age!
Seminarians at the Redemptoris Mater House of Formation (peopled by those called from the Neocatechumenal Way) on the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization campus in Denver (they can also be found all over the world, including Perth and Sydney) lead a more disciplined life than their brothers [...]

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4chan targets Christian Facebookers

August 26, 2009

Those naughty boys (and girls) at 4chan have been at it again, this time hacking a Christian dating site and using its user details to take control of members’ Facebook accounts. They used this control to cast their victims in an unfavourable light by posting racist messages, suggesting the promiscuity of members or making callous [...]

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Facebook says ‘No’ to hate

June 14, 2009

Facebook has disabled the ‘I Hate Muslims in Oz’ group from their site. This was due to its “explicit statement of hate”, rather than any sense of religious vilification. Holocaust denial groups have also been removed in the past, but only when similarly related to a message of hate.
apud AFP ‘Facebook shuts down Aussie Muslim [...]

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PopeTube

May 23, 2009

No longer do you need to make the long trek all the way to St Peter’s to see the Pope: now you can stream him direct to your smartphone! The Pope2You portal features links to their Facebook and iPhone apps, WikiCath and the Vatican’s YouTube channel.
This is something of a turn-around for the Vatican, after [...]

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Towards an halal Facebook

May 22, 2009

Indonesian clerics met at the Lirboyo Islamic boarding school to discuss, among other issues, possible guidelines for Muslim Facebook users. Fearing that Facebook, Indonesia’s most popular site, may encourage “pornographic chatter”, clerics considered an edict on the matter was necessary. “The clerics think it is necessary to set an edict on virtual networking, because this [...]

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