"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
Take a miracle if offered... I need to recalibrate again...
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The Body Data Craze
// thedailybeast.com
Today, I’ve been on the phone four times, for an average of 24 minutes a call. my last phone call was 22 minutes 23 seconds long, according to the digital time device on my landline.
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A Sports Agent With Hollywood in His Blood
// nytimes.com
His grandfather was a mighty Hollywood force, but Casey Wasserman has chosen the sports world for making his mark, with a rapidly growing management and marketing firm.
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How Disney and Johnny Depp Dealt With "The Lone Ranger" Racism Problem
// motherjones.com
"[The] Native American community...is so behind this movie, it's fantastic," producer Jerry Bruckheimer said in a recent interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News.
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Plane Crash in San Francisco in Real Time, Via Samsung Exec David Eun on Board
// allthingsd.com
A tragedy unfolds online.
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Why do so many American 'journalists' appear to hate actual journalism?
// theconversation.com
Why shouldn’t you, Mr Greenwald, be charged with a crime?
The question was directed at Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who broke the story of NSA surveillance using material provided by on-the-lam leaker Edward Snowden.
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Why Microsoft Is Tech's Last Grand Strategist
// forbes.com
Walter Isaacson's acclaimed biography of Steve Jobs, noted that the Apple founder revolutionized no less than 7 industries and went into particular detail about how Jobs was driven by products that were “sucky.
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MUST READ: The Sopranos: Definitive Explanation of "The END"
// masterofsopranos.wordpress.com
If you're a big fan and have an hour or so.
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TED: Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel - Jinha Lee (2013)
// ted.com
The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to dissolve it altogether.
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The Invisible Revolution
// nymag.com
Alan Gilberts unflashy radicalism is re-creating the Philharmonic.
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Domino’s Proves You Can Simultaneously Have Great Advertising And Bad Marketing
// rohitbhargava.com
Great advertising appeals to emotions. In the world of marketing pizza, this usually leads to some new “innovation” in pizza making that might induce cravings and cause people at home to pick up the phone and place an order for delivery.
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come
// metropolismag.com
Almost 50 years after the Action Office, Herman Miller embarks on the next big rethinking of the workplace: the Living Office. It is the ultimate twenty-first-century work-in-progress.
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Hunter Walk: Internet Etiquette: The Rights & Wrongs of Publicly Criticizing a Friend
// specialedition.linkedin.com
Public arena vs private channels can be tricky. I’ve definitely been half-way done writing a blog post, only to delete or turn into an email upon realizing it would be more appropriate to handle offline.
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Egypt’s New Leaders Press Media to Muzzle Dissent
// nytimes.com
The authorities shuttered some television stations, and the tone of some state news media also seemed to shift, to reflect the interests of those now in charge.
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Lockdown
// marco.org
Officially, Google killed Reader because “over the years usage has declined”.1 I believe that statement, especially if API clients weren’t considered “usage”, but I don’t believe that’s the entire reason.
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So, How Long Do You Give Human Civilization Anyway?
// motherboard.vice.com
Something I always get a kick out of is that we, as technological humans, don't build things to last forever.
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The Lone Ranger Represents Everything That's Wrong With Hollywood Blockbusters
// nymag.com
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg recently took part in a symposium in which they predicted an imminent “implosion” in the system as a result of the industry’s current obsession with blockbuster movies.
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You Should Take The Lonely Island Seriously As Rappers
// buzzfeed.com
Whether they know it or not, Andy Samberg’s rap crew fits in very well with today’s rap culture, and they stand above much of it.
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The Inner Game Of Everything: Why Is A Four-Decade-Old Tennis Book Still A Self-Help Sensation?
// buzzfeed.com
A Harvard English major wrote The Inner Game of Tennis in 1972. A million copies later, its ideas are still some of the most influential in sports — and beyond, taken seriously by actors, politicians, and even sex researchers.
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For 'This Is the End's' James Franco, it never really seems to be
// latimes.com
Just what exactly powers James Franco, the seemingly unstoppable actor, academic and almost everything in between? A glimpse behind the curtain.The snow is piling up on the streets of small-town Utah, and James Franco is talking about sex.
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The Death Of Google Reader Opens The Door To A Smarter Subscription Ecosystem
// techcrunch.com
Editor's note: Julien Genestoux is the founder and CEO of Superfeedr.
We all know that Google Reader, which used to be the most obvious RSS subscription tool, is now gone.
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What are ‘Dark Google’ and ‘Dark Social?’ A webmaster’s mortal enemies, with no fix in sight
// digitaltrends.com
Dark Google and dark social continue to be explored by Web publishers who desperately want to know where their traffic is coming from. Problem is things are only getting cloudier and there's no motivation for those at the root of the issue to clear it up.
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Why Do We Retweet Tragedy?
// techcrunch.com
With the upmost respect for victims and survivors, may I question why we feel so compelled to personally spread bad news? Why with each bombing or disaster we all race to tell everyone we know what happened? We've realized the power of Twitter and other social media for distributing real-time new
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A Trip to Camp to Break a Tech Addiction
// nytimes.com
In the woods, tech-addled adults can break the bonds of the digital world, at least temporarily, and return to the glories of color wars and real (not Facebook) friends.
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Sam Spiegel turns odd musical pairings into a winning formula
// latimes.com
L.A. producer Sam Spiegel has a knack for fusing artists' different aesthetics (think Ol' Dirty Bastard and David Byrne) into one big musical party.Musician and producer Sam Spiegel lives in a wooden A-frame house in the Hollywood Hills.
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What TV can learn from Running of the Bulls through Google Glass
// lostremote.com
A major European event is about to begin tomorrow, the Running of the Bulls. The festival which takes place in Pamplona, Spain attracts huge amounts of viewers and tourists and is televised in different capacities across the world.
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If You Think Apple Customers Are Loyal Now, Watch And See What's In Store
// forbes.com
People who use competing products just don’t get the loyalty of Apple users. “What is so special about the iPhone? That Macbook Air? An iPad Mini?” The product specs rarely seem extraordinary, yet customers love them. Even in Korea, Apple scores higher on customer satisfaction than native son Samsung.
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Chinese Web giant Tencent faces obstacles in its goal to expand in global IM market
// washingtonpost.com
BEIJING — With Web giants such as Facebook and Twitter blocked by the government here, an entire ecosystem of home-grown companies has flourished with names that are unfamiliar to many outside China.
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Video Of The Week: Cliff Chenfeld on Media Reporter
// avc.com
My friend Cliff Chenfeld recently appeared on the Media Reporter TV show. Cliff has been in the entertainment business for over 25 years and he talks about the changes he has seen in the music industry, film, sports, and other.
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When do posthumous releases go too far?
// avclub.com
J.R.R. Tolkien’s latest posthumous release, The Fall Of Arthur, unearths one of his long lost epic poems, and is the only original piece by the fantasy legend to take place in the world of Camelot.
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Getting Hooked On WhoSampled
// hypebot.com
WhoSampled stands alone among music apps, because it is entirely focused on tracing samples as they wend their way from wherever they originally appeared into sample-oriented music including Hip-Hop, EDM, and other genres. It helps fans of those genres delve deeper into music they thought they already knew.
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Tell me EVERYTHING about you: What’s next in Quantified Self?
// thenextweb.com
I get up every day, put on my jeans and walk to the kitchen to get breakfast. Already, I’m being tracked by my Fitbit One, which is logging every step.
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Three years on: Has the Times digital subscription project worked?
// themediabriefing.com
I've just been reminded that on the night the Times paywall launched I put on a panel discussion in my then role as in-house journalist / event producer at the Frontline Club. Thankfully, due to club founder Vaughan Smith's investments in video tech (and bandwidth!) you can watch it in full here.
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The NSA/GCHQ metadata reassurances are breathtakingly cynical
// guardian.co.uk
The public is being told that the NSA and GCHQ have 'only' been collecting metadata, not content.
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Wearable Tech Is Bringing the Fashion Industry to Silicon Valley
// motherboard.vice.com
Fashion and technology have historically mixed as well as oil and water, but now the looming wearable tech craze is forcing a convergence of the two industries.
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The Power of Networks in a Complex (Business) World
// elsua.net
One of the things that I am continuing to find rather fascinating and intriguing altogether is how, time and time again, even now in 2013, I still keep bumping, every so often, into various different people who keep questioning the validity and (business) value of checking vanity pages, as they
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Forget servers; One day Facebook, Google and other web giants will make their own custom chips
// gigaom.com
Will web giants soon follow in Apple's footsteps with the iPhone, and design specialty silicon for the servers running their operations? An AMD executive thinks that day is around the corner.
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YouTube: Creating Content You Like vs Creating Content For an Audience
// bennyluo.com
After speaking and moderating a variety of panels in the last 2 years on topics relating to YouTube and new media, one of the biggest questions that come up is “how to generate an audience?”.
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Stealth fitness startup Human wants to make the quantified self mainstream
// thenextweb.com
Based in San Francisco, Human is a stealthy fitness startup founded by Renato Valdes Olmos of Cardcloud and Paul Veugen of Usabilla. Launching soon with a self-titled app, Human’s goal is to make the ‘quantified self’ trend.
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Smartphone Makers Hit By Rising Competition
// online.wsj.com
Samsung's weaker-than-expected earnings guidance and tepid results from HTC show that high-end smartphone makers are starting to see growth taper as competition bites and cheaper devices flood the market.
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The Dangers Of Self-Diagnosis Online
// visualoop.tumblr.com
An infographic.
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha
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