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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 [...]

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Why I Hate the New York Yankees

October 22nd, 2009 · → 9 Comments

Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema Derek Jeter is actually Superman, right? Even better if he wore a cape to games, but then he might trip over it on the way to receiving his friggin’ World Series trophy. When I say I hate the Yankees, I know I am in good company. A quick [...]

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Twitter is Sacred

August 20th, 2009 · → 8 Comments

Twitter, sacred?  Well, maybe. A recent blog by Stephen Dinan started the ball rolling for me by asking “When something is wildly successful, as Twitter now is, I often ask myself about its higher purpose. In other words, what might be the deeper meaning of Twitter?” Could a string of 140 characters have a higher [...]

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Oh the Tangled Web We Weave

June 18th, 2009 · → 1 Comment

Social networking has a huge reach. Yes, there’s something vaguely totalitarian and Hitler-esque about having “followers” on Twitter. But Twitter has been used to get the word out about the fixed elections in Iran and to track emergency weather. Two million people are following Ashton Kutcher on Twitter. I know that Jane Fonda had a knee operation because she tweeted.

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