Spent some time checking out ebible.com this morning. This looks to be one more reason for me to get a mobile phone with WiFi. Among ebible’s features, one stands out to me as particularly intriguing - the user’s ability to tag or “book mark” a verse. In other words, anyone with an account can can add a tag (like “peace” “hope” or “thundercats”) to a verse. While I’m sure this is monitored, it would be interesting to know what criteria deem a tag acceptable.

Tagging the bible,while on one hand a very clever tool, could get rather complicated. Following are some questions for consideration … and possibly discussion?

1. Does ebible leave interpretation up to the user?
2. If so, is that a good thing? Why or why not?
3. Should there be a person of authority discerning the tags?
4. If so, who should that person be? What biases are helpful/unhelpful?

While I have a few reservations (including thoughts on advertising goods/services alongside the Bible) they are just that - few. I’m personally pretty stoked about this - especially some of the tools.

I installed the ebible FF search bar with one easy cliick. There’s a search bar available for IE too, but why would anyone want to use that browser?

Category: General Thoughts

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