Mormons and the New Media

Like lots of the people on the planet, Latter-day Saints find
themselves swimming in more and more new technology every year.
 Just consider whether you send hand-written letters or use
email these days?  Do you post family pictures on Picasa or
Flickr and send links to your family?  Do you update your
Facebook or MySpace page when someone gets a mission call, has a
new baby, or just wants to post video of little Hannah's first
violin recital?


Twenty years ago if someone had talked to me about Podcasting,
Blogging, and YouTube, I might have thought they were talking
about farming, bodily functions, and my own personal cryogenic
chamber.  These days, those words have not only become a
daily part of how many of us communicate, get our news and
entertainment and share what we think is important, they've also
shown up in addresses by General Authorities.  And of course
there are also some technologies useful to the Saints in
particular; like the new Gospel Library app for iPhone, the
FamilySearch website, and streaming General Conference on-demand,
when it's most convenient for us to listen.


In this edition, we're asking about the technologies YOU use and
HOW you use them.  In the future we'll be delving deeper
into how these can both help us and hurt us, and where to draw
the line.  For today though, please just take a listen,
think about the new technologies which have become part of your
everyday life, then send us an email to help direct where this
podcast (there's one of those words again) starts exploring.
 Or, just leave a comment right here on this blog.


That's this week on The Cricket and Seagull...