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Digital Serfs & Cyborg Buddhas

12. January 2009

Digital Serfs and Cyborg Buddhas from Jeriaska on Vimeo.

Check out this great talk with Professor James Hughes and Professor Mike LaTorra. Both James and Mike have been guests on Buddhist Geeks, and they are also both Transhumanists. Their talk is an interesting mixture of Buddhist and Transhumanist idea, particularly aimed at exploring the [...]

What is Twitter?

23. June 2008

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I’ve been an active user on Twitter, the micro-blogging community, for over a year. Being a big fan of the service, I love to see when new folks get on there, especially when we’re really close. For those of you not on there, but interested, here’s a killer video on Twitter from the [...]

Why Geo-Social Networking Matters: The Unification of Virtual and Real World Relationships

13. May 2008

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Over the past couple weeks I’ve been trying out a new geo-social networking tool called BrightKite. They call themselves a “location based social network” which basically means that they encourage users to check-in (using the web or SMS) to various physical locations, and to then broadcast that location to other users. One of [...]

How Bit Literate Are You?

2. April 2008

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I wrote about Bit Literacy a while back, which a phenomenal productivity system developed by Mark Hurst. His system is especially aimed at how we work with information (or ‘bits’) and how having a clear understanding of how to work with information (what he calls ‘bit literacy’) impacts your effectiveness as a knowledge worker. [...]

Train Attention and Become a Cyborg Buddha!

1. April 2008

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This is a great video, from the Google Talk series, with Philippe Goldin. Philippe is a research scientist and heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. He spent 6 years in India and Nepal studying various languages, Buddhist philosophy and debate at Namgyal Monastery and the [...]