Archive for the 'Media' Category
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Imagine creating a short video of your suggestion or related story in advance of your reunion, employee or professional meeting or celebration? Suppose you could also add comments on a group blog? Then see what’s on others’ minds before you get together. To see the power of such an approach, visit the site created [...]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Driving along the Marin Headlands today, I switched radio channels away from the unfolding news of the stock market “panic.” Within minutes I had to pull to the side of the road. Listening to a recording of Barack Obama’s sermon yesterday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, it was these lines that choked me up:
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Few people grow up and stay in the same town all their lives, with the same friends and family members just a short drive away. We meet people at college. We jump around in our jobs. Settle down. Life flies by. For many of us, our dearest friends are not down the street.
Yet we [...]

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Friday, December 7th, 2007
“Go slow to go fast” I remind myself (too late) as did this other Scandanavian. See what’s already made a half million people laugh. Then see my favorite second, third and fourth “go slow to go fast lessons” from around the world, right here at tbs’s very funny ads. Sometimes one can’t [...]
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
From the Slobberknockering changes in pro wrestling to the appearance of Cartoon Network clips on YouTube “entertainment” is changing. Some fans are becoming co-creators. New kinds of businesses and individuals are now distributers. What role would you like to play?
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
… down San Francisco’s hilly streets. That’s Jonathan Glazer’s captivating way to announce Sony’s next generation of TV sets, with “colour like no other”.
That prompted the ultimate compliment, a parody.
Yes, unexpected tumbling and color are “in”. Move on to watch the exploding 18,000 gallon paint dance over a block of abandoned Scottish high-rise [...]
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
When a dot com founder and a real estate developer can bankroll successful movies for profit or for noble social goals, then the movie studios better watch their backs. They have more than the writers’ strike to worry about in a power shift that L.A. Times reporter, Patrick Goldstein predicts will crack open the movie [...]
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
After eating at some of the most elegant and far out restaurants in Las Vegas, Kaapstad, Dubai and San Francisco it must have been a startling change of pace to dine in my kitchen in Sausalito. But, it seems, neither time zones nor giggly culinary ineptitude (mine) fazed the unflappable Dutch TV chef, Rudolph [...]
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Enough of Bartleby’s dusty classics or even more recent sayings? Ready for quotes from popular culture? From jokes on last night’s comedy show to current movie tunes and lines, find and share your favorite, latest quotes and tunes via Entertonement. Soon.
Here in tiny Sausalito we are delighted to discover this stealth start-up that [...]
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Increasingly many turn to Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert, rather than the evening news, to suss out the truth in politicians’ pontifications – and to be entertained. That’s not news. Yet today, a New York Times reporter wrote that another form of entertainment may affect more people’s decisions about global warming than Al Gore’s [...]
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