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Entries Tagged as 'LinkedIn'
The Rise and Rise of the Editor
February 11th, 2010 · → 5 Comments
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Tags:1000 ways to die·Avid·boing boing·Final Cut Pro·Huffington Post·LinkedIn·mashable·non-linear editing·techcrunch·the biggest loser·treehugger
Thunder Thunder Thunder ThunderCats
January 28th, 2010 · → 4 Comments
A writer from the UK contacted me recently with the news that he is writing a book about ThunderCats. I wrote four scripts for the series, which later became a beloved media fetish object. (“Honey, what are you doing with that plush toy?”) The writer wants me to reminisce about cartoons and recall stories [...]
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Tags:Apple Computer·Arthur Rankin·Jules Bass·LinkedIn·Mike Nomad·Milton Caniff·Peter Lawrence·Steve Canyon·Steve Jobs·Steve Roper·ThunderCats·William Overgard
It Works Because You Say So
January 21st, 2010 · → 9 Comments
My doctor gave me six months to live. But when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.
-Walter Matthau, actor
You go to a doctor. The doctor gives you a pill. You get better. Then you find out the doctor gave you a sugar pill and you got better anyway.
You might have [...]
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Tags:10:23·alternative medicine·boing boing·boots pharmacy·elton mayo·fake medicine·Henry Beecher·homeopathic·LinkedIn·medicine·placebo·placebo myth·Samuel Hahnemann·UK
Cameron’s New Consciousness
January 7th, 2010 · → 4 Comments
Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema
Have you heard about the new world consciousness arriving by 2012?
According to experts:
a) A worldwide natural disaster will occur, directed by Roland Emmerich, only this time the special effects will be really happening.
b) A return to the Utopian world of Avatar, only this time you won’t need 3D glasses [...]
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Tags:avatar·bob ballard·c3 conscious creatives·david letterman·hearts of fire·henry david thoreau·james cameron·john raatz·karen tate·LinkedIn·michael cera·roland emmerich·utopia·visioneering group·walt whitman
Swadeshi
December 10th, 2009 · → 8 Comments
Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema.
Around the holiday season more and more people are thinking about trying some swadeshi. It sounds like a crazy-ass office party dance or maybe something spicy to eat. (“I’ll have the swadeshi and a mango lassi.”)
Swadeshi isn’t either of those things, though it might inspire a crazy-ass dance or [...]
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Tags:adultery·changemakers·charity focus·gandhi·LinkedIn·moveOn.org·non-profit·one laptop per child·service·social activism·swadeshi·tiger woods·vinay gupta·volunteerism
Making Money in Yogaland
December 3rd, 2009 · → 2 Comments
Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema.
Yogaworks has opened a new studio in New York, at the corner of Broadway and Grand Street. It’s got bamboo floors, showers with impressive pressure, electronically-locking lockers and walls painted in restful Ralph Lauren colors. The only thing missing? People. On the two days we went there there were [...]
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Tags:bhakti yoga shala·crunch gym·google·itunes·Ken Auletta·LinkedIn·manduka·markets·netflix·spectrum gym·Twitter·walter isaacson·yoga·yogaco·yogis anonymous
Ayurveda
November 19th, 2009 · → 4 Comments
Last week I came down with an ear infection. Fixing it took me to India and to Ukraine. But first, I had to go to a specialist in Santa Monica.
He used a microscope to have a look. Then he inserted a vacuum hose and hit the switch. If you can’t deal with medical details, [...]
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Tags:Access Hollywood·Ayurveda·energy therapy·healing·India·Lee Schneider·LinkedIn·Louise Hay·Mona Lisa Schultz·pulsation·Reiki·Tabby Biddle·Ukraine
Shoestring Journalism
November 12th, 2009 · → 2 Comments
Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema.
Last week I paid a visit to an old friend in television news. I watched ten screens in his office showing competing news stations and live feeds. I listened to his scanner buzzing with cop voices. His computer instant message system wanted his eyes and ears. [...]
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Tags:adventure pictures·Benjamin Drummond·Chris Tompkins·DocuCinema·journalism·LinkedIn·Mathilde Piard·multimedia·Sara Joy Steele·SHELTER
Spitting into the Future
October 29th, 2009 · → 4 Comments
It’s been said that the future will be much like the present, only longer. But knowing the future would change your life. If you knew the exact location of your death you might avoid that place and buy a few more years. (“No, I can’t go to the Teacups ride at Disneyland ever again and [...]
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Tags:23andme·DNA·genetic testing·human genome·LinkedIn·predict the future·Richard Branson·see the future·space tourism·Virgin Galactic
Six Degrees of Urban Myth
October 15th, 2009 · → 4 Comments
Everyone is connected by six degrees of separation.
I like the sound of that. The phrase it’s a small world after all has been seared into my mind by singing robots at Disneyland. (Do you have that song stuck in your head now? Sorry.)
Six Degrees became a popular phrase after a play from John Guare called [...]
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Tags:Fast Company·it's a small world·Judith Kleinfeld·Kevin Bacon·LinkedIn·Malcolm Gladwell·psychology today·six degrees·six degrees of separation·small world after all·Stanley Milgram
