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...Seattle, Mars Hill churchgoers regularly tweet throughout the service. In New York City, Trinity Church marked Good Friday by tweeting the Passion play, detailing the stages of Jesus' crucifixion in short bursts. At Next Level Church, outside Charlotte, N.C., it's not only O.K. to fuse social-networking technology with prayer; it's desirable. (See pictures of John 3:16 in pop culture...
...worship is about creating community, Twitter is an undeniably useful tool. The trick is to not let the chatter overshadow the need for quiet reflection that spirituality requires. At Westwinds, people can ask questions about the sermon that the pastors will answer later, or they can tweet in real time and hope another congregant offers insight. Some use Twitter as a note-taking tool. Often, it's pastor-directed, with McDonald preaching while Voelz taps out, "In what way do you feel the spirit of God moving within you?" Discuss...
...Gonzalo Giribet: The all-star of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department. He made a name for himself studying obese women and their oversized tweety bird t-shirts, though he has yet to replicate his results outside of a Six Flags Theme Park. Keep on rollin’, Gonzalo. Tweet tweet! Recently, he pioneered his theory of “Hot Chicks and Their Assistants,” in which he posits that every hot chick has a noticeably less hot assistant, who helps her with doing all her hot chick stuff, busses her tray, and schedules appointments for potential...
...company did not publicly respond to the video immediately, hoping attention would subside. But when it became clear by mid-week that the controversy was only escalating, Domino's executives acted. The company posted an apology on its website and asked employees with Twitter accounts to tweet a link to it. The company also created its own Twitter account, @dpzinfo, to reassure consumers that this was an isolated incident. And Domino's U.S.A. president, Patrick Doyle, issued an apology on YouTube...
...surface, this seems fine. After all, this is the heyday of the chronic oversharer. Everyone talks all the time, regardless of whether anyone listens. We Tweet, we Facebook, we Gchat, we blog, we text. We share every thought, significant or un, from the moment we switch on our iPhones in the morning to the instant we sit down face to face with an actual person. The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted. Fran Lebowitz once remarked that “the opposite of talking isn?...