1. A Chesterton quote a day?What are your ideas? Or if you like any of these, say so. Do you have an iPhone or Ipod touch? Would you like such an app?
2. A Chestertonian word or motif of the day? (Wonder, surprise, limitations, imagination, wit, etc.
3. Take a Chesterton novel like The Man Who Was Thursday and serialize it into daily bits?
4. Link to a Chestertonian video, like the clips found on youtube of the Apostle of Common Sense?
5. A where is Dale Ahlquist today map?
6. A countdown to the next Flying Conference?
7. A clerihew a day?
Thanks for your input.
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Perhaps a Modernity Search Engine. You enter a term that describes what you're having to wrestle with, say: the dispersion of marriage definitions, evangelistic atheism, or the worship of science, and then the GK Chesterton app recognizes the keywords and comes back with a quotation that helps put it all back in its place.
ReplyDeleteHow about sound bites so when you are in a heated discussion you can hit the sound that applies appropriately to the discussion at hand?
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ReplyDeleteI like all of your suggestions. It would also be great to have a repository of Chesterton quotes by subject.
And yes I do have an iPhone.
All those ideas sound great! I'd get the app - even if it wasn't free. Another thing to add might be allusions to Chesterton in popular culture\literature - places where he's quoted in current events, things like Gaiman's Sandman comics, etc.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if you're aware, but some companies can create podcast applications out of your podcast feeds. I think Libsyn (your podcast host) offers this and does all of the work for you for part of the revenue.
ReplyDeleteIn a nutshell, you would use your podcast feed and make an application that allows users to listen to your content through the app. It might be worth checking out. I know that Today In iPhone (TII) has one and they're with Libsyn.
Let's think larger - I don't want a search engine to just quotes - I want it to also put me into the online document. No, either the online document or an audio recording of it (Ok, maybe that last part's a bit much).
ReplyDeleteAnd a further link to the ACS website where they can purchase the real doc while they're at it.
Reading whole documents on the Ipod is a bit of a pain, I like real paper. But it's not bad for a paragraph or two - let's not limit us to just "quotes" of our man Gilbert.
I would love this, and so would a lot of my friends at school. Outside of the various ways one could use his quotes, I don't see a lot of room for such a large man to be condensed into an app.
ReplyDeleteAn "I am feeling..." with a list of selectable emotions, and a response from GKC for each would be wonderful.
I'm a Palm Pre user rather than an iAnything, but I'd love a GKC app!
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