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May 9, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Inside An Evangelical Megapastor's Massive Soul-Saving Social Media Machine MIAMI -- Halfway through megapastor Joel Osteen's sermon at Marlins Park stadium, seven frazzled people sitting in a press box overlooking the field realize they have a problem: The prayers aren't going through. "I can forward 'prayer' to 'prayer request,'" volunteers a member of Osteen's technical staff as a possible fix. He fiddles with the trackball of his BlackBerry as he tries his best to reassure Osteen's marketing director, Jason Madding, that they can redirect people's emailed prayers to the proper place and prevent them from disappearing into the digital ether. Continue reading... Amazing Map Features Dialects From All Over The U.S. This Magazine Ad Gives You Free Wi-Fi This Insane Half-Second Video Will Terrify You Why You'll Still Hate The Autoplay Ads Coming To Your Facebook Newsfeed The FBI Wants To Read Your Gchats Worst. Photoshop. Ever. Inside An Evangelical Megapastor's Massive Soul-Saving Social Media Machine Experts Warn: Wiretap Law Could Create 'Backdoors' For Hackers Inside An Evangelical Megapastor's Massive Soul-Saving Social Media Machine Pandora Founder Emails With Unhappy Musician Worst. Photoshop. Ever. DON TAPSCOTT My BB's Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble! Blackberry? Are you kidding me? I converted to the iPhone ages ago. Except that I've been trying out Blackberry's newest phone, the Q10, for a week. And guess what? I love it. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Blackberry may actually be making a comeback. Continue reading... RANDI ZUCKERBERG My Son Wears Pink: To Share or Not to Share? As parents, we need to ask ourselves whether we're posting photos for our children or for ourselves. And if you're posting it for yourself, wait a little bit before pressing the "share" button so you can really think about if it's in your child's best interest. Continue reading... DAVID K. LEVINE Googazon: The Web 3.0 Will the next Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds or Jimmy Wales please step forward? Because I don't want information at my fingertips -- I want action at my fingertips, and I mean my fingertips. Continue reading... OMER ROSEN Life Without a Cellphone Before the cellphone age, non-emergency workers did not customarily carry around beepers in case of emergency unless they were drug dealers. Now, any slight variation or interference in one's life-pattern can qualify as emergency, proof of the need for the almighty e-slab. Continue reading... ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Small Screens, Big Business In this week's issue, Gerry Smith looks at one of the less savory effects of recent technological innovation: the billion-dollar black market for stolen smartphones. And Lila Shapiro considers the career of former New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey, nearly a decade after he resigned with the admission that he was "a gay American." Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003