We've been hearing a lot recently about a new journalism course for Christians (Buzzmachine); apparently the course will "challenge Christian students to integrate their faith, journalism practice, and understanding of our current culture in a unified fashion aptly fit for today’s mainstream newsrooms."
Today I am rather taken by this extraordinary mash-up of the BBC news RSS feed and a bible-quote look-up, that takes news stories from the BBC and references a Biblical quotation against them. I would be lying if I said I knew what it's supposed to be for, but it seems at first glance to be a tongue-in-cheek attempt to automate the journalism-for-christians process. My Credulous Hat guess is that it's intended to demonstrate that the Bible is a living text with a genuine applicability to the issues of the modern world. My Cynical Hat guess is that it's intended to demonstrate precisely the opposite. Either way, it's an interesting combination of sources and a nice example of how digital allows seemingly disparate things to be conflated with debatable coherence.
(Hat-tip to Andrew Chapman who pointed out the mash-up site.)
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