Bibletech08

Bible Software in the Classroom

Computers in The Classroom

There's a post on the Logos Blog about Logos in the Classroom. Actually it's a commercial for a 15 minute talk by Senior VP Dale Pritchett, which itself is basically a commercial aimed at Seminary professors to convince them to replace their single classroom textbooks with the full Logos Digital Library. If you have the 15 minutes you should listen. If you only have about 7, do a quick read of the PDF transcript.
I have two simple observations to make.

Upgrade the audio please

The audio is probably over compressed. It's either that or the audio is the result of several takes and a bad patch job. Dale comes into various sentences sounding completely different and it seems with different breathing patterns; almost as if they've taken two or more clips and sliced and diced them into one speech. The only reason I mention this is because I found it annoying to listen to. I'm tempted to say it's over compressed because I've experienced the same phenomena with other Logos media. Michael Heiser's excellent lecture "The concept of the Godhead in the Old Testament" was plagued in it's Camtasia format with horrible over compression that introduced all sorts of nasty audio artifacts into the speech. It's worth downloading the MP3 on that one instead of listening to the stream.

Yes, But...

I agree wholeheartedly with the principle message of Mr. Pritchett's speech. But I also see a problem

Are you going to BibleTech 2008 in Seattle in January?

Yes
11% (7 votes)
No, not interested...
14% (9 votes)
Maybe, I'm not sure...
6% (4 votes)
No, but I want to..
37% (24 votes)
I don't know what BibleTech 2008 is...
32% (21 votes)
Total votes: 65

Bible and Technology Conference

With the announcement of the BibleTech:2008 conference being hosted by Logos Bible Software my eyes glazed over and my mind started racing.
As many of you know I use two pieces of software for Bible Study (three if you count OOo). I start translating every passage (as much as I can) in Bibleworks. Then I Move over to Libronix and complete my work there, refining as I go. There is already excellent linking between the programs from Bibleworks 7 to Libronix. BW7 has done an outstanding Job in permitting linking with it's external links manager. Logos has yet to learn how to play nice with other programs.

(EDIT:
Bob Pritchett wrote to remind me of the Object Model Reference which effectively means that Libronix is completely open to playing nice with others.

You can create custom toolbar buttons within the Libronix DLS that contain JavaScript that uses the object model. You can also write external applications that drive the Libronix DLS in VB, VBA, JavaScript, C++, Delphi, or any other language that supports programming with COM objects. reference

Now that I think about it, hosting the conference is indicative of Logos' willingness to play nice.
I offer my apologies to Bob and to Logos for my misguided statement.)

The announcement as well as the blog posts from Logos employees Rick Brannan and President Bob Pritchett are quick to note that even though Logos is hosting/sponsoring the event it's not about Logos, it's rather about technology and the Bible. My hope for the conference is that relationships will be built between companies like Bibleworks and Logos (and E-Sword, Accordance, Gramcord, PalmBible+, Olive Tree and hundreds of others) which will encourage future cooperation on items which become visible in user world where I reside.

As one interested in Technology, the Bible and in Bible Software I am pondering a trip to Seattle next year to be a part. Whether I go or not, the speaker list is starting to look interesting.