Archive for November 2008

The ESV Web Service now has an option for output-type=mp3, so you can integrate audio directly into your applications.
For example, here’s the URL to hear John 3:16-17: http://www.esvapi.org/v2/rest/passageQuery?key=IP&output-format=mp3&passage=John+3:16-17
Just change the “passage” parameter, and you can listen to any passage or combination of passages (up to around 200 verses).
The audio is copyrighted (as indicated in the [...]

Paul K. Graham recently completed a Mechanical Turk experiment: he paid people to rewrite King James Bible verses in their own words. The results are interesting. For example, John 3:16-17 becomes:
God loved the people of the world so much that he gave to them his only son, and whoever believes in the son will not [...]