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The Best Explanation of Twitter: It’s Like Working in a Cafe
via RB | Upcoming by (author unknown) on May 04, 2008
... Thompson that he shared on BBC radio.Bill says: "Twitter makes me feel like I am sitting in a cafe surrounded by lots of good friends trying to do some work over a cup of coffee. Every now and then, one of my friends would say something interesting and I can be quickly part of that conversation."The Best Explanation of Twitter: It’s Like Working in a Cafe - Digital Inspiration | FAQ | RSS
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Explaining food vs. nutrition: Michael Pollan talks at Google
via RSSmeme | Most Popular Stories From The Last 24 Hours by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared 19 times TaggedScience (1541)Video (4670)Avi sez, "Michael Pollan gives his most practical lecture yet @ Google. Pollan's 12 heuristics have been most helpful during my year shopping for veggies at Berkley Bowl:)I grew up buying fresh produce at atmospheric places like this in Mumbai and do fervently hope that vivacious local markets trump impersonal food-processing...
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GodTube Raises $30m for Jesus 2.0 ©
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on May 04, 2008
Tech media business blog PaidContent unearthed some big, unannounced funding this weekend for Christian video sharing site GodTube. The site, which combines short and long form Flash video with chat and live video, is now $30m richer - PaidContent writes. All content, right down to the comments, is vetted by human editors before it appears on GodTube. That labor requirement, in addition to the...
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The horror
via James Fallows by James Fallows on May 05, 2008
CCTV just ran a news feature on the nightmare possibility that someone might copy the official broadcast of Olympic events and then distribute it in a pirated or unauthorized form. The newscaster pointed out that this would be in flagrant disregard of the intellectual property rights of the Beijing Olympics themselves and of CCTV, the official broadcaster.I can barely imagine the horror of some...
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California Teacher Fired for Not Signing Loyalty Oath
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on May 03, 2008
Wendy Gonaver lost her teaching job at Cal State Fullerton one day before class was scheduled to begin, because she refused to sign a loyalty oath swearing to "defend" the U.S. and California constitutions "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."As a Quaker from Pennsylvania and a lifelong pacifist, Gonaver objected to the California oath as an infringement of her rights of free speech and...
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Walter Reed Using Yoga to Fight PTSD
via Danger Room by Noah Shachtman on May 05, 2008
The Army is looking to spend $4 million researching how yoga and other alternative therapies might help ease the pain of post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. But, at Walter Reed Medical Center, they're already convinced. 120 soldiers per year are being treated in Walter Reed's Specialized Care program. "Yoga," the Washington Post reports, "has become a large part of that effort."Yoga...
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Ambient intimacy
via BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis on May 05, 2008
Leise Reichelt says that the syncopated updates we share publicly with friends and followers in Twitter (and blogs and Flickr….) add up to what she called “ambient intimacy.”Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible. Flickr lets me...
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The Whuffie Factor: Threadless Interview
via ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon by miss rogue on May 05, 2008
I had the chance to sit down with the awesome people at Threadless in December in a very snowy Chicago. They are so brilliant. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. ShareThis
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Sprint: Can You Please Give Us $39,952 Today? [Errors]
via Consumerist by Meg Marco on May 05, 2008
Reader Richard says he came home this summer to angry parents "because of our sprint bill with the family share plan was insanely high." Of course, it turned out to be the same typo we'd written about before, but we really enjoyed the polite but firm manner in which Sprint asked Richard's parents for $39,952... "today."
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Web 2.0-Enterprise 2.0 boundary, like work-life, is getting blurry
via The FASTForward Blog by Joe McKendrick on May 05, 2008
My colleague Bill Ives just posted a thought-provoking discussion on why Web 2.0 is not the same animal as Enterprise 2.0.There are definitely clear distinctions between the consumerist Web 2.0 services in play out there, versus the tools and services businesses are adopting. When technologies or services are taken behind the firewall, their purpose and requirements change, which is to solve...
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