Lynne Baab is a lecturer and writer on pastoral theology who lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is the author of eight books, including a book on how Christians can and should build online friendships called Friending. Mediation contributor Thomas Turner recently “sat down” with her over email for an online conversation. Thomas: Lynne, it’s […]
David Wheeler is the author of Contingency Plans and a fair number of essays around the internet. He’s been selling books for the last few years, currently at the Elliott Bay Book Co in Seattle. He works on the events team to introduce authors and sells books during any number of the 500 readings we put […]
There are those whom you would describe as enthusiastic, and then there is L.L. Barkat. She has an energy and laugh that is absolutely contagious. And some of her ideas are contagious, too! Mediation staff writer Thomas Turner chatted briefly with L.L. Barkat on the subject of digital publishing and electronic media, something she knows […]
Since the Internet has become the source of information and transferred our location of knowledge from paper to digital formats, the infographic has become a form of communication that combines image and word to create a specific way to convey and synthesize knowledge. Magazines like GOOD and Fast Company are huge purveyors of infographics online, […]
Breena Wiederhoeft is the graphic artist behind Easel Ain’t Easy, a quirky and witty comic blog. Breena has been working hard on her debut novel Picket Line, which is now available for pre-order. Thomas Turner sat down digitally to chat with Breena to discuss how the digital, technologically advanced world we live in intersects with […]
“But information now is just a bunch of disconnected data or entertainment and, as such, may be worthless, perhaps harmful. As T.S. Eliot wrote a long time ago, information is different from knowledge, and it has nothing at all to do with wisdom.” – Wendell Berry, “Digging In” I have always been a Dodgers fan. […]
“Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?” – Maximus, Gladiator (2000) It’s best to let the furor die down before writing about Charlie Sheen. He became larger than life all of the sudden, a multi-media spectacular of machetes, cussing, occult references and tiger blood. He embodied the […]
Several weeks ago, as the protests in Egypt were boiling over and radical change was about to take place the American media was caught off guard and didn’t have people on the ground covering the story. The omni-presence of 24/7 cable news looked a bit stifled and out of touch with the world outside American […]
One year ago, Paste Magazine’s associate editor Rachel Maddux wrote a provocative article that asked the question, “Is Indie dead?” Comparing the question to the one TIME writer John T. Elson wrote forty five years ago concerning the more existential question, is God dead?, Maddux ties the theological question to the musical one: Elson wrote […]