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The pope promoted the use of the digital world as a means of making the Gospel known in remarks to 20,000 pilgrims at his weekly audience Wednesday.
He says that the Internet has brought about change in the way news is distributed and how people relate to each other. Benedict urges young people to use the potential of the Internet to build a better world through bonds of friendship and solidarity.
He also underlines the need for a what he calls a culture of respect when navigating.
The Vatican has had its own website since 1995, but it’s attempting to reach further into the 21st century by launching its own, dedicated channel on YouTube, which will carry video and audio footage of the Pope’s speeches, as well as Vatican news.
The Pope launched the venture by saying:
"You must find ways to spread – in a new manner – voices and pictures of hope, through the internet, which wraps all of our planet in an increasingly close-knitted way."
The Vatican has announced that is collaborating with Internet giant Google on a project to bring Vatican TV Center and Vatican Radio to the Internet—and part of the deal will apparently include Pope Benedict XVI getting his own YouTube channel.
The Vatican says it will announce details at a news conference January 23rd, which will be presented by officials of the Holy See as well as Henrique de Castro, Gogole’s managing director of media relations.
A new web tool has been developed by researchers in the US to track the identity of organizations that edit pages on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, andit’s revealed some very interesting and disturbing things. The tool, called Wikipedia Scanner, has revealed that computers at the CIA madechanges to the entry about Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and that it appears the Vatican altered a page relating to Sin Fein leader Gerry Adams. On the page of Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad, Scanner has shown that someone on the CIA network reportedly added the exclamation "Wahhhhhh!" before a section on the leader’s plans for his presidency. A warning wasissued on the profile of the anonymous editor. A CIA spokesperson said, “I cannot confirm that the traffic you cite came from agency computers. I’d like in any case to underscorea far larger and more significant point that no one should doubt or forget: The CIA has a vital mission in protecting the United States, and the focus of this agency is there, on that decisivework.” Wikipedia entries can be edited by anyone. The tool also seems to indicate that an edit in the page of Gerry Adams came from the Vatican. The edit removed links tonewspaper stories written in 2006 that alleged that Mr Adams’ fingerprints and handprints were found on a car used during a double murder in 1971. Wikipedia Scanner works by going through thelist of edits on the site and matching them to the editor’s net address. It’s turned up a few other problematic edits, such as one seeming to show that a computer owned by theDemocratic Party made abusive edits to the page about right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh. Most edits found by Scanner are innocuous, but others polish entries – common amongpoliticians – and others remove embarrassing revelations. Wikipedia Scanner is the brainchild of Virgil Griffith of the California Institute of Technology. It works by merging the netaddress of people who edit pages on Wikipedia with a database on IP address owners.
As another Holocaust Remembrance Day rolls around April 25, Encyclopedia Britannica announced today they were unveiling a new Web feature to
MusicMatch’s popular Jukebox software is bundled with Apple’s iPod MP3 player, but it’s doubtful for how much longer. In September MusicMatch launched its own online MP3 download service as a rivalto Apple’s iTunes Music Store. And last month Apple launched iTunes for Windows with a glitzy launch at which Bono – perhaps already thinking of a curl of white smoke rising above the Vaticanspelling the words “Yes, you with the Raybans” , only in Latin – compared Steve Jobs to the Dalai Lama.
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