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After tweeting his farewell, the entire Twitter history of Pope Benedict XVI has been deleted today from the @Pontifex account.

From Mashable

According to a Friday report from NBC 40, officials had scheduled a ceremony to promote several Atlantic City Fire Department workers to Battalion Chief and Fire Captain, but upon commencing the proceedings it was noticed that no one had thought to bring a Bible to City Council Chambers.

In a post on ReligionDispatches Elizabeth Drescher took Valerie Tarico's points about the internet killing organized religions, because it is an open system and "Traditional religion...requires a closed information system.”

Her conclusion:

One day conference at the Union Theological Seminary, organized by the New Media Peroject

For two years, the New Media Project has engaged in research and reflection about how changing patterns and tools of digital communication affect religious leaders and communities of faith. Our hope has been to model and spark theological thinking about new media through blog posts, case studies, and theological essays. This one-day event showcases the work of the New Media Project and invites participants into the ongoing conversation.

Program includes:

Call for Paper

"Being a Pious in the Age of Facebook, Youtube and Twitter"
Symposium, April 18-19th, 2013, KU Leuven

With
Kelly Askew (UMichigan)
Charles Hirschkind (UCBerkeley)
Dorothea Schulz (University of Cologne)

There is a newish blog, by Yonason Gordon, titled Community of Readers, that does somethgin very similar what I keep wanting to do: "Chronicling the convergence between Jewish wisdom and technology." He reads the technology news and then dives into it and connects the points to aspects of Jewish Wisdom.