9 posts and columns on religion

Isn’t Hugh Grant in That?

No matter the denomination, in most religious weddings & funerals I’ve attended, half of the ceremony is devoted to new customer acquisition.

– Matt Haughey, via Twitter

Voices

Apple Withdraws App in France

in News on September 15, 2011 at 9:45 am PT

Amid pressure from French social activists, Apple Inc. has removed from its French online store an application called “Jew or Not Jew” that says it allows users to identify whether a politician or celebrity is Jewish.

QOTD: Church of iEntology?

“The religious-like behavior and language surrounding Apple devotion/fandom is an example of ‘implicit religion.’”

– Texas A&M University professor Heidi Campbell, author of “How the iPhone Became Divine: New Media, Religion and the Intertextual Circulation of Meaning”

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Live at D8

in D8 on June 3, 2010 at 10:45 am PT

Good news for AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: His predecessor, AOL founder Steve Case, thinks the Google veteran has a chance to turn around the company. The bad news: He has a very long way to go.
Tim Armstrong