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Saturday, August 14, 2010

The Bible, Sumarized

A devout Christian has pledged to spread the word of the Lord - by telling every chapter of the Bible on Twitter.Chris Juby, 30, plans to condense one chapter a day into less than 140 characters - the maximum allowed for a single entry on the website. 

Mr Juby, director of worship at King's Church, Durham City, began with the first chapter of Genesis on Sunday and intends to work his way through all 1,189 chapters. 
His task of truly Biblical proportions will take more than three years to complete, with the last entry due on November 8, 2013. He is working on the twitter account biblesummary
His first entry on Twitter read: "God created the heavens, the earth and everything that lives. He made humankind in his image, and gave them charge over the earth."
Mr Juby said: "It is my normal habit to read a chapter of the Bible each morning and I always read through from Genesis to Revelation.
"As I was coming to the end last time, I thought I needed a way of focussing my mind a little bit more on what I was reading. I thought a summary would be a good way of doing this. I already use Twitter, so I thought I'd share my summaries."
Mr Juby's Twitter Bible follows the publication of versions such as the 100 minute Bible, the SMS text message Bible and the Geordie Bible.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

President Twitter

Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of President Barack Obama’s record, White House and administration officials increasingly are communicating through Twitter.
The popular social network is operating as a Web-based clearinghouse for public statements on weighty subjects (the federal budget) and the mundane (personal grocery lists). Forget press releases. Gibbs and his deputy, Bill Burton, are now sharing news in Twitter messages. So far 33,000 people have signed up to follow Gibbs and more than 6,000 are tracking Burton.
"Wow unreal game... POTUS watched OT in his office right off the Oval Office all of us are so proud of our great team," Gibbs tweeted during the men's Olympic hockey finals last Sunday, when the Americans lost the gold medal game to Canada in OT (overtime). POTUS is the acronym for President Of The United States.
As Obama’s team continues an online strategy set in place during the campaign, it seems only natural that they would make it a piece of a broader communications plan that extends across the government. UN Ambassador Susan Rice tweets about diplomacy, Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela tweets about the Western Hemisphere and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke tweets about trade.
With a news cycle now measured in seconds rather than days, administration officials recognize they must use the same tactics as the critics who assail them and the reporters who cover them.