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AVATAR: All Energy is Borrowed and One Day We Have to Give it Back

March 6th, 2010 · No Comments

The heavily marketed and hyped AVATAR, which is up for 9 Academy Award nominations this weekend, was as intense and powerful as District 9. Seeing it in 3D added great energy and dimension, particularly to the inner forest scenes, but…

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Get WILDLY Creative About South Africa Online BUZZ Campaign

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments

This week, South Africa marked the start of the 100 days countdown to the 2010 Fifa World Cup with a variety of patriotic celebrations and flag-flying spectacles. The football spectacular kicks off on June 11, 2010. The newly announced “Get…

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Digital Signatures Can Save a TON of $$$

February 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

A well known journalist friend of mine recently tweeted that he had to go out and buy a fax machine because a new client expected invoices via fax. At first I thought he was joking, either that or was working…

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Tags: Israel

Fotobabble Turns BILLIONS of Photos into TALKING Ones

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

There are tens of billions of static photos on the web, all without a voice or a sound. The Fotobabble guys think that’s a crying shame. Within seconds, you can voice-enable any photo — on a PC, a Mac or…

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Tags: America

Pearltrees Delivers Real-Time Human Curation of the Web: Feature Updates

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Pearltrees, the first human-organized network of interests on the web, unveiled a number of new features today, to manage your own web – instantaneously, in just two clicks. Users organize their interests and passions on the web using intuitive drag…

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Daniel Siegel on Consciousness: Part III

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Rigidity versus fluidity versus integration of the mind and what constitutes a healthy mind. What moves us towards consciousness? What can we do? Daniel Siegel continues to talk about what he learned from writing his book Mindsight, which just came…

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Daniel Siegel on Consciousness: Part II

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

How do you define the mind? What is a healthy mind? A healthy mind comes from something he refers to as integration. Hear Daniel Siegel’s perspective.

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Daniel Siegel on Consciousness: Relational Nature of our Minds, our Brains: Part I

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

Dr. Daniel Siegel meets with a small group of us for lunch in Santa Monica last week to discuss the relational nature of our minds and our brains…..body/relational and how all of it connects to consciousness. His new book Mindsight…

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Early Glimpse of Countdown to Zero: #countdowntozero #nuclear

February 20th, 2010 · No Comments

At Long Beach last week, film producer Lawrence Bender gave an early preview of his latest movie Countdown to Zero about nuclear weapons threat. Following the eye-opening film, he takes questions from the audience. While the footage is extremely dark,…

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Dancers POP to ETHEL in Long Beach

February 20th, 2010 · No Comments

The energy to this joyous night of musical and dance exploration in Long Beach last week was magical. Join us on the journey below.

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Tags: America