Numinous Nonsense

What is Twitter?

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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How Bit Literate Are You?

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. [...]

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Train Attention and Become a Cyborg Buddha!

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 [...]

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Don’t Start Playing Halo - Unless you want to be like these guys…

My friend Ryan is thinking of getting an XBox 360, so that he can play Halo 3. Well, Ryan, do you want to be like these guys? Get a Wii instead. Even better, get a girlfriend!

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Revision3 - They’re Hip, Young, & Geeky. But Are They Conscious?

[This post was cross-posted from Shoot the Fruit, the official blog of Falling Fruit] Falling Fruit is one among several of the first netcasting media companies. Revision3, based out of San Francisco, is another such company who are paving the way and doing it quite well. They focus primarily on technology and offer all [...]

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