Comments for LDS Media Talk

Comment on About by Rick Weible

Rick Weible — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:53:24 +0000

I enjoy your emails updating what’s happening on Church sites, but in the past week or so, my outlook client has been taking a long time to load the message? I get a message about contacting assets.pentrest.com/images ??
Any suggestions?
Thanks!!
Rick

Comment on Getting Teens to Read the Book of Mormon by sean

sean — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:22:26 +0000

Heaven knows that I had trouble reading the Book of Mormon in my teen years. I knew that I should read it and that it would bless my life, but I was so bored by the archaic prose! It eventually fell into place, however, especially in the past couple years. Thanks for writing this, it will really help to reference to when I'm a parent someday. From my perspective (that of one who recently graduated from teendom) I'd say a way to make it relevant to a teenager is to play to their sense of "cool". Make scripture study something "cool". How you do that is up to you, I guess. That, and don't make it a burden. As a kid, my family would get up at six in the morning to read scriptures, and in my comatose, early-morning state, I wouldn't get anything out of it. I soak in the material much easier later in the day, when I'm not brain-dead and can actually think about and discuss what I'm reading. Last, I'd say that it's really not that important how MUCH you read in one sitting as opposed to how much you take in from it. Some of my greatest moments of study have been ones where I was reading seven chapters at once, but delving deeply into the handful of verses I did read and cross-referencing them, marking, taking notes. At such moments, the Spirit is very powerful for me.

Comment on Music from General Conference by ldswebguy

ldswebguy — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:33:16 +0000

Jim, you’re right. Today, it’s mostly music from 2008-2012. More is being added over time back 10 years.

Comment on How Pornography is Addictive by Amelia

Amelia — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:47:25 +0000

When someone uses statistics (especially statistics that on their face seem skewed) without offering even a single citation, disregard. Immediately.

If you really want to be both ethical and honest as you work to make a change, you’ll have to be honest in your research. Which this is not. Not without even a gesture towards academic honesty by citing sources. As it is, it’s little more than yet another manipulative, slick advertising campaign attempting to sell something.

Comment on Music from General Conference by Jim Anderson

Jim Anderson — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:36:41 +0000

I just checked the site, and only see a few music items from before 2008 on the main Conference website, and nothing before 2008 on the music page yet. In fact, there are only a half dozen songs available but only in video format from 2007 right now on the main Conference pages, there could be another few elsewhere, but nothing really substantive yet.

Comment on LDS Media Library on LDS.org by Larry Richman

Larry Richman — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:35:18 +0000

Bryce, we’re trying to get that changed. In the meantime, you can send a request to cor-intellectualproperty@ldschurch.org

Comment on LDS Media Library on LDS.org by Bryce

Bryce — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:56:32 +0000

Any idea when images will be available to use on our personal blogs? I found an image I want to use on my German language blog (http://brycedermormone.blogspot.com/), but I see this information on the LDS Media Library Website (http://www.lds.org/media-library/licenses-restrictions?lang=eng):

‘Ways you cannot use downloadable media from the LDS Media Library:
Burn DVDs for any distribution. Distribution of the DVD requires additional permissions.
Publish to other websites.
Cut or alter existing Church-owned media to create new products, even for personal use.”

Any idea when and how these restrictions will be lifted to allow us to share the gospel on “members’ blogs” with nice images from the LDS Media website as described above?
Let me know.

Thanks!

Bryce Rogers

Comment on Wireless Internet Access in LDS Meetinghouses by High Speed Internet

High Speed Internet — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:18:51 +0000

Wow, this is great technology application on the church. It’s a big thing to have those especially when your church goes worldwide.

Comment on Pandora Internet Radio by Michael Lippke

Michael Lippke — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:13:32 +0000

Pandora Internet Radio: The creme de la creme, the best of the best, bar none, period!

Comment on How Pornography is Addictive by zionssuburb

zionssuburb — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:39:48 +0000

This still doesn’t address the reason why so many turn to porn in the first place, if in our church we have a serious problem with men and porn, doesn’t that mean we have a serious issues with sexuality in general? The idea the teaching young women from the time they are 3 and 4 years old that their bodies are tempting to men, and they need to cover up, is damaging marital relationships because grown women have had this idea drummed into them for years. We need to find a way to be more healthy in our conversations with both Young Women and Young Men that allows the transition at marriage to be less traumatic for women.

We are spending too much effort fighting the result of a root problem that doesn’t get addressed.