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Well folks dr media here , been tweeting and face booking not blogging but moved to post this .Nionebother than Vint Cerf from google alerting you to the fact that privacy is "an anomaly".If the governebt told you this you'd be thinking in 1984 or Matrix terms , but...
The ways to turn your misery into a livelihood, a therapist offers tongue firmy in cheek useful hints on how to perfect your whining, good stuff., especially fir...
Google: don’t expect privacy when sending to Gmail | Technology | The Guardian
Well isn't this surprising, you mean you get a free service and they can't farm your mail to help make their engines smarter, and of course they would never sell this data to the feds, or any government, or political pasty for that matter would they, nah!We are...
Slated .com and indie financing
As indie film financing shifts to new studio models, amazon, app, apple, YouTube , netflicks, etc, now we have crowdfunding and a new curated model , slated .com.Not the 1st and certainly not to be the last .Will this new model provide more financing opportunities for...
Disruptions: Hollywood, or Silicon Valley: Where’s the Money? – NYTimes.com
Hi all, been a while I keep posting on LinkedIn and Facebook as well as tweeting but I thoght I'd try this, although tumblr is next.This article outlines what I've been preaching for years which is the need for transmedia projects as the future of media making.Indie...
Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data – NYTimes.com
Hi Gang, haven't been blogging , tweeting, etc., but felt I needed to comment on this piece.Bruzzese is the 2nd coming of Joe Farrell and NRG. You see the reason he's popular is because he can fill a theater and create data sheets which sound scientific...
That gut feeling
This article offers an interesting view of the empirical foundations of the felt sense we have when we feel moved by a presentation or person or idea .Gendlin researched this idea many years ago and it has been foundational in my work .Now we have a scientific basis...
Facebook loves you
The new Facebook mood reporter allows people to lie to themselves and others more directly now .Not only can they be deceptive about their appearance , career, car, age, etc. Now they can lie about their mood , it's getting more like real life everyday...
Wisdom 2.0 – Living with awareness, wisdom, and compassion – Live Stream
Sherry Turkle unfolds a reflection on how communications technologies interfere with real communications and in fact protect people from actual meeting in an authentic sense.Wisdom 2.0 - Living with awareness, wisdom, and compassion - Live Stream:...
Super search engine tracks terrorists — and you — via social networks – Technology on NBCNews.com
During the Bush years this was the Total Awareness Network, TAN, and was supposedly unfunded.Guess it was privatized, but isn't Raytheon a defense contractor. RIOT what a good name?These techies have a sense of humor.All it does is scoop up info and sort out the...
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