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BYU professor Phil Windley points out that the United Methodist Church now has an online social network. Read Phil’s comments about the site.

What are your feelings about the value of such a site for LDS people?

Many of you are aware that the RSS feeds on Newsroom and the home page of LDS.org have not been working well (or at all) since June 8. Last night, the feeds were fixed and are working well.

I’ve blogged before about Second Life.

Read a report on MSNBC about religion in Second Life. (Be sure to watch the video on that page.)

“One of the fastest growing sites on the internet isn’t a Web site, but a 3-D virtual world built and owned by it’s residents. It’s called “Second Life,” and for millions of users, it’s a place to escape reality. But just like the real world, good and evil also exist in “Second Life.” As a result, religion is finding it’s way there too.”

According to a recent study, 11% of US adults now use only a mobile phone to place phone calls and 17% only use mobile and the Internet (VoIP).

So, where is this heading? If you look at the 18-to-29-year-old group, a full third of them use only a mobile phone or the Internet for their calls. One telling statistic is that mobile-phone-only users tended to be male and better educated, but less affluent than the general adult population.

In addition to phone calls, there are other factors driving mobile use, such as text messaging, picture sharing, watching video, and listening to music.

Learn more at eMarketer.

A few days ago, I blogged about  Microsoft Surface tabletop computing. I just found a great demo of multi-touch computer screens from Popular Mechanics.