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Hanging with Yahoo! Mother Board and Yahoo! Shine
September 2, 2010 by Beth Blecherman
Years ago when I realized I could not use my work email for personal use, I set up a Yahoo email address. I still to this day use Yahoo Mail and view my RSS feeds via my My Yahoo page. So when Yahoo created a Mother Board program for outreach to mom bloggers, I was excited to participate.
The first Mother Board Summit was mid-July. I was excited to see the fellow Mother Board members, meet the engaging Yahoo team and connect with a brand that I am already a power user of – to learn more about their applications and properties.
As I de-brief from my trip to BlogHer10 in NYC August 6-7, I can’t help but think of the fun I also had connecting with my fellow Mother Board members at the conference and spending time at the Yahoo Shine booth. The theme of the Yahoo Shine booth at BlogHer was “re-invention”: there were videos with stories of how women re-invented themselves displayed with live video interview filming to hear more re-invention stories. I even had a chance to do an interview. Lucky for
David Hanson: Machine Versus Human
September 2, 2010 by Renee Blodgett
I had a chance to talk to David Hanson of Hanson Robotics in-depth at the Singularity Summit in San Francisco on August 14. He holds the view that humans do want robots to look, feel and sound human – after all, asking humans to think otherwise would be asking humans to re-wire the way they think.
The conversation that unfortunately didn’t make it into the video was around robot(ic) behavior – robots versus humans, more specifically robots versus actors. We were talking about how some of the best actors actually ARE the character, they don’t go INTO character. My examples specifically are both women: Meryl Streep and Glenn Close. Both of them have a way of drawing you into their character and make you believe nothing else exists. They ARE that character and nothing else; the character is in fact their DNA, not who they are in their off-stage life.
I could imagine a world where you could actually buy a ‘program’ that is set to a particular character. In the future, I’d love an ‘open source’ robot like the PR2s that Willow Garage is building, and I’d like to separately buy a program,…
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Loren Feldman, the Jester in the Court of Web 2.0
September 2, 2010 by Tom Foremski
[From left to right: Loren Feldman with Mike Arrington, Loic LeMeur, Robert Scoble during happier times - photo from Loic LeMeur]
Loren Feldman is the New York City based publisher of 1938Media.com, a fascinating, irreverent and funny critic of the West Coast tech scene.
Loren used to be an insider, a close friend of the princes of the Web 2.0 world: Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Loic LeMeur, and others. But Loren has managed to upset all those people, and more; and so have I simply by retweeting some of his comic puppetry.
(I've been blocked and called names because of my re-tweets of Loren's material but that won't stop me. It's a guy with a sock (puppet) on his hand — people need to lighten up.)
Loren's puppets are hilarious. He has puppets representing Robert Scoble, Loic LeMeur, Shel Israel, Peter Cashmore, Dave Winer, Mark Zuckerberg, Gary Vee, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Steve Ballmer, and more.
Here is an example of Loren Feldman's puppetry: Steve Ballmer's iPad review.
Loren often hits the nail on the head and says things that I hear others saying privately. When he talks…
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We Want It! – Toronto Recycling Video
September 2, 2010 by Katherine Hui
This is brilliant! It’s like the 118 guys and the ‘We buy any car crew’ all smacked into one ridiculous commercial about electronic waste recycling. What’s not to like?! It’s a silly and seemlingly effective campaign to get local residents in the Toronto area thinking about how to adequately dispose of ewaste.
To watch some of the other equally amusing videos, visit the City of Toronto’s website to see more (Yes, this is a city council funded film 
).
(Spotted on Unconsumption)
Reshma For Congress in New York
September 1, 2010 by Sloane Berrent
I came across the most remarkable woman running for Congress. Since I wrote about supporting professional women last week, I thought this was a good follow up.
Reshma Saujani is running for Congress in the 14th district of New York, which encompasses the East Side of Manhattan and Queens. She is using social media to help spread the word about her campaign and being transparent every step along the way as she talks about her campaign on her website and on Twitter (you can follow her @reshma2010 or join her campaign by texting JOIN to 646-807-9932).
She writes about herself:
My name is Reshma Saujani. I am a dedicated Democrat, a community activist, a Yale University legal scholar, and an attorney in New York City. But first and foremost, I am the daughter of political refugees whose story embodies the promise of life in America. For questions or more info email info@reshma2010.com.
She is exactly the type of candidate I want to see. She has the experience to get the job done, the passion to want to and the background and family that make her a standup person and member of society.…
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Sugru is Winner of Sustainability’s Next Top Model
September 1, 2010 by Katherine Hui
Big congrats to Sugru for winning the title of Sustainability’s Next Top Model! With over 100 more votes than the other three models, Sugru has won by a mile.
Sugru will now receive a Green Thing marketing campaign worth a whopping £50,000 to help them on their way to world domination.
Thank you to everyone who voted!
The Story of Bottled Water
August 31, 2010 by Green Thing
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes in length, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.
The Meaning of Life
August 30, 2010 by Fred Hatman
So, here we are on another Moanday (sic), sitting in a post-weekend stupor in offices all over the globe. Same grumpy old boss. Same boring old meetings. Same rubbish coffee. Same old grubby work colleague sitting nearby with sticky tape holding together his glasses, picking his nose and droning on about his weekend spent trying to coax some love out of a Russian instant wives website.
I think that this might help you…
Wow. Nice. That certainly reminded me of the really important things in life.
So I’m going back to bed.
* Thanks to Eric Alan for the heads-up on this very sweet little vid. Oh, in case you’re wondering, the vid is called The Meaning of Life, produced by “Santé et beauté pour tous!!”, whatever that is, and that stunning soundtrack was “Cuore Di Sabbia” (Sand Heart) by Pasquale Catalano. Mooi, ne?
A Rwandan Video On How a Biogas Stove Works
August 28, 2010 by Danielle Nierenberg
Nourishing the Planet features a video each week to give you an inside peek at the different projects we see on the ground that are working to alleviate hunger and poverty. Check out Nourishing the Planet’s Youtube channel to see more.
This week we highlight one of your favorite videos. See below to learn how a biogas stove works from our interview with Madame Helen Bahikwe, a Heifer International beneficiary.
Managing the River of Media
August 27, 2010 by David Sasaki
We are all overwhelmed by too much information. Either we feel burdened by thousands of unread emails, articles, and blog posts, or we generally feel out of the information loop, as if others have secret access to content that we’re not privy to. If we don’t develop systems to manage how we discover, make sense of, and use the information around us then either we begin to feel anxious or so overwhelmed that the information itself begins to lose its value.
We start freaking out.
This post is a detailed overview of how I personally manage media content in my life. (I won’t include how I manage other types of information like financial and contact information — that’s a whole other story.) I should emphasize that there is no single media management system that will work for everyone. Everyone has different types and amounts of information to process. Because of my job and my own interests I probably consume much more media than others, and so have developed a fairly intricate system that, though extremely automated, still requires more daily attention than most are probably willing to invest.
Finding and Consuming Media
There are three main factors that…
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