In this post I want to move beyond the earlier one “How’s my presence?” where I argued that presence is not a binary state, but a graduated one. We can be more or less present. Here I will summarise briefly some fascinating research by Steve Wheeler at the University of Plymouth, make some suggestions arising [...]
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Doing the podcasts on the E100 readings has made me even more aware of the need to provide some ‘casts that provide short introductions to some of the deeper issues in reading Scripture, like that of God as cold-blooded killer. I am currently preparing the audio comments on Proverbs, that most male of books, and [...]
Apple products are so “cool”, and so effectively advertised by “word of mouth” as well as in traditional media, what’s not to like? Briefly because Apple products use proprietrary formats and are in other ways restrictive producing narrow and enclosed world. Proprietrary: Apple is the most tight assed computer and IT company around. Whether its [...]
One of my hobbies is reading for Librivox. I’ve just finished what (I think) is the first/only complete audio book of Kipling’s Just So Stories to contain not only the stories, poems, and picture descriptions, but also the 13th story (see below). I have also written a blurb for the book. Can any one suggest [...]
In NZ we’ve just started doing the E100. This is 100 readings selected to give a good overview of the Bible. I’m hoping – if life and work don’t get in the way – to podcast on 5 Minute Bible on all these 100 passages. The first reading is Genesis 1 & 2, I am [...]
I am listening to La rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo by Emilio de’ Cavalieri (1550-1602) this is arguably the oldest surviving opera, or perhaps it’s an oratorio. When I say listening, I’m actually playing one of the super-bargain DVDs we bought, so I can also watch the performers (it is a concert rather than [...]
I am recording the Just So Stories for Librivox, and I want to make this the most full and complete audio version of the book ever. So, I have included the 13th story, that was in the first US edition, but left out of most later ones (superstition?), and Kipling’s entertaining descriptions of the pictures [...]
