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Thomas Edison Died Last Week, But Light Lives On

By John Dyer on September 30, 2010March 5, 2020

With the flip of a switch last week, the last factory in the United States making old style incandescent bulbs – the kind Thomas Edison spent much of the 1870sContinue readingThomas Edison Died Last Week, But Light Lives On

MediaElement.js – a magic unicorn HTML5 video library

By John Dyer on September 22, 2010March 5, 2020

I”ve posted before about HTML5 video and based on what I found I released an HTML5 <video> framework and player called MediaElement.js. But I never got around to explaining theContinue readingMediaElement.js – a magic unicorn HTML5 video library

Around the Web

By John Dyer on September 20, 2010March 5, 2020

The Way We Live Now – a parent of a home schooler imparts some excellent principles about technology. [HT: Alan Jacobs] Every new technology will bite back. The more powerful itsContinue readingAround the Web

2 Bible Experiments: Reading Plans and Instant Search

By John Dyer on September 14, 2010March 5, 2020

From time to time, I like to share programming experiments that relate to the digital world. Here, I’ve applied recent Internet memes to Bible tools. How Long Does it Take toContinue reading2 Bible Experiments: Reading Plans and Instant Search

Evangelical Exegetical Commentary: A Redefinition of the Book

By John Dyer on September 9, 2010March 5, 2020

The release of the iPad earlier this year kickstarted a new wave of discussions about the death of print and how magazines and book publishing will work in the digitalContinue readingEvangelical Exegetical Commentary: A Redefinition of the Book

3D TV Means Color TV is New Black (and White)

By John Dyer on September 6, 2010March 5, 2020

This weekend, I took my kids to a nearby park and while we were playing I met a little Russian girl named Sasha who was there with her grandmother. TheContinue reading3D TV Means Color TV is New Black (and White)

The 10 Commandments: Where the Medium Was the Message

By John Dyer on September 1, 2010March 5, 2020

In my seminary Hebrew courses, we had to read the laws of several ancient near eastern societies and compare them to the 10 commandments of the Bible. Interestingly, most ofContinue readingThe 10 Commandments: Where the Medium Was the Message

Location, location, location

By John Dyer on August 26, 2010March 5, 2020

A friend recently asked if I’d seen any churches using location and check-in tools like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Facebook with their ministries. The Google Trend image above shows they areContinue readingLocation, location, location

ECHO Conference and MediaElement.js

By John Dyer on July 29, 2010March 5, 2020

My good friend Nathan Smith and I are giving a little presentation Friday at ECHO Conference. We’re not presenting on media ecology or anything theological, just good old straight forwardContinue readingECHO Conference and MediaElement.js

Around the Web

By John Dyer on July 17, 2010March 5, 2020

Here’s a few goodies from this week Only Disconnect – Author Gary Shteyngart writes eloquently about his technological transformation, “With each post, each tap of the screen, each drag andContinue readingAround the Web

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