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Yesterday I saw a film at the MoMA (Tailenders) about evangelical Christian missionaries’ use of technology to spread ‘the word’. They travel to isolated villages on all continents handing out cardboard record players, cassettes and cassette players from a company, who have recorded bible stories in an astonishing 5500 languages. They call it “audio evangelism”. The film was pretty critical of the missionaries, and concluded that people were probably more attracted to the technology and the sound of their own language, than the actual content of the tapes.

NYU/oD pal Siva Vaidhyanathan (aka “Dr. Small Beard”) was interviewed on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show about social networking. It’s funny, and it also gives me a chance to play with Google Video’s new “put on site” feature. Putting this nifty video in my blog is as simple as clicking a link and pasting some instant code. Way to go Google! NY Times had a good review of it a while back (“Google Video: Trash Mixed with Treasure”).