U. of Missouri’s Journalism School Will Make iPod Touch, iPhone Mandatory for Students Read more

Morality and Karma Systems – Not only does he cite me, which is nice, he also provides a good argument for a GTA 4 style choice mechanic. There’s some really good stuff here that provides good fodder for thought about the nature of games and their purpose as art. After you read it, here’s a response I tried to post as a comment but didn’t go through: You’re right. I haven’t played GTA, but it really does sound like they... Read more

30 Rock’s weird conservative streak. Read more

David Sessions wrote a kind of State of the CCM Union address over at Patrol. I’m going to cheat and post the last paragraph of this article, but I hope it will make you want to go back and read the whole thing. It’s good: We persuaded a lot of the Christian world to begin opening its mind about music. But there’s still a lot of work to be done convincing it that the way to reach out is to have... Read more

Christian music’s big indentity crisis: How the internet, the indie invasion, and new ideas about art are splintering the Christian music industry. Read more

In our last podcast, we talked about how hard it is to sound smart and say exactly what you mean in the public sphere all the time. We pointed out that we often have to edit dumb things we’ve said from our podcast that would have made us sound like idiots or just wrong. This week’s podcast had an outtake that’s a good example, and I thought I would share it. I was trying to demonstrate how people are faced... Read more

A teachable moment if I ever read of one: Mr. Reidenberg teaches a course on privacy law. Justice Scalia made comments earlier this year that sounded skeptical about privacy protection for all online information. So Mr. Reidenberg asked his class to compile a dossier on Justice Scalia. After some Googling, the Washington Post reported Tuesday, the class came up with with Mr. Scalia’s home address and phone number, the price of his house, some of his favorite foods and movies,... Read more

Ten Things Twitter is Not Read more