Jeffrey C. Long

MusicGrid: Video Collaboration in Action Reaching out via voice has changed the world, through landlines, cell phones, and now Skype and cousins. What effects will broadband video have? An article on Canada’s MusicGrid project, explores a real-life case study involving hundreds of geographically-distributed students, teachers, and musicians – all collaborating over broadband video networks: Convergence [...]

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“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.” – I Corinthians 9:24 Our faith can sometimes feel too cerebral. It would be easier if we could see the goal of holiness in front of us [...]

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Top 100 Speeches In mp3 or Real Audio format. First 5: “I have a dream,” JFK’s Inaugural Address, FDR’s Inaugural address and Pearl Harbor address to the nation, and Barbara Charlie Jordan’s 1976 Democratic National Convenation Keynote Address. Presentation Excellence Powerpoint presentation from Tom Peters on giving great presentations. “My brother-in-law, a senior ExxonMobil exec, [...]

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This cuddly friend is Morbo, newscaster on Futurama. I wanted to use a sound from the show for my “You’ve got mail” sound. I recently discovered a program called Audacity that allowed me to import an mp3, cut the extraneous parts, and then save it as a WAV. Pretty cool, and it’s free. So if [...]

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I just picked up the new issue of Wired magazine. The cover story is about Steven Spielberg’s production of the new War of the Worlds. The picture of him shows that he is a mature elder in the world of filmmaking. He has a distinguished greying beard. He’s not the young buck who produced ET [...]

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Following are the blogs I read on a regular or semi-regular basis. Please comment sites that you visit, or blogs that are in your news aggregator. Bands Jam Band bittorrents Relix magazine Jam band news source Jam band fan blog BrandYou! (Tom Peters phraseology) (personal business) Seth Godin Author of Unleash the Ideavirus The Occupational [...]

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A few weeks ago I bought Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba software so that I could record streaming audio such as NPR’s Science Friday and Classic King FM’s Sunday evening Compline service. I ran into a bug with the program. When I contacted tech support, I had an immediate response on a Saturday of all [...]

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I preached the following sermon that the memorial service of Daniel Parks, May 21st, 2005. It was based on an outline by Bill Hybels. Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, Though the mountains are shaken into the [...]

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Interesting places I’ve come across in the last week 15 Things You Can Do With RSS “Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. Here are my favourites (please let me know if there are better services and I’ll update). I use this [...]

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In publishing, a colophon describes details of the production of a book. This information generally includes the typefaces used, and often the names of their designers; the paper, ink and details of the binding materials and methods may also receive mention. In the case of technical books, a colophon may [...]

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