Plug and Play Forays into Southern California with TENTEN Wilshire

Seeded on Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:24 PM EDT (Hollywood Today)

Plug and Play Tech Center, the leading Silicon Valley startup incubator, to launch its Los Angeles counterpart —TENTEN Wilshire on Wednesday, July 29 at 5:30 PM.

business, business-tech, social-media, vcs, funding, seed-money

Undercover Investigation Reveals That Ringling Beats Elephants

Seeded on Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:35 AM EDT (PETA)

In 2009, PETA went undercover at "the saddest show on Earth"—Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus—and captured Ringling workers on video as they beat and whipped elephants dozens of times in venues across the country. Other viewing options

animal, rights, abuse, circus

Research shows that Internet is rewiring our brains

Seeded on Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:29 PM EDT (UCLA)

Digital natives — young people born into a world of laptops and cell phones, text messaging and twittering — spend an average of 8 1/2 hours each day exposed to digital technology.

science, internet, brain, studies

Minneapolis Life in the Cubicle Examiner: Two studies about Twitter and Facebook prove old people are unproductive

Seeded on Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:41 PM EDT (Examiner)

In the last two weeks two separate studies were released regarding the effect that Internet habits have on employees and students. Although the two studies came to drastically different conclusions, they indirectly proved that old people are highly unproductive at work.

technology, twitter, facebook

Lynn Hasselberger, myEarth 360 07/04/2009 - Launch Notes on Blog Talk Radio

Seeded on Tue Apr 7, 2009 4:24 PM EDT (Radio Hosts)

Women in Green Technologies - Lynn Hasselberger is the Founder of the I Count for myEarth campaign, dedicated to raising children's environmental awareness and empowering them to be enviro-champions at school and at home.

science, environment, ecology

Madonna and Child

Seeded on Sat Apr 4, 2009 1:08 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

I think that the Malawi gvt's decision is not taking in consideration the welfare of the child. Whether you like Madonna or not, there's an orphaned child without a home, who will remained without a home, when one was being offered. Shameful.

politics, madonna, adoption, africa

iLoop's Obama program honored as "Campaign of the Year" by Mobile Marketer Magazine

Seeded on Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:53 PM EDT (iloop)

When Doubting Thomases parrot that tired old line of mobile marketing not being there yet, point but to the new leader of the free world: Barack Obama.

business, internet, obama, campaign, iloop, mobile

Newsroom furloughs are catching on

Seeded on Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:10 PM EDT (LA Observed)

Add the Register in Orange County to the list of local media imposing unpaid time off on their workers. Staffers were told today to take off five days between April 1 and June 30. There will also be new, unspecified layoffs.

business, newsrooms, unpaid, vacation, newspapers, media, employement, economy

Keep The Fat Virus Away- Keep Your Family Healthy

Seeded on Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:12 PM EDT (Hollywood Today)

Wash Your Hands Won't Keep The Fat Virus Away - So Take A Walk! By Sandy DiIorio,

health, fat, virus, prevention

Saudi Cleric Calls for Independent Shi'ite State

Seeded on Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:40 PM EDT (newsblaze)

Holy Shi'ite!

world-news

Does Google Care About Social?

Seeded on Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:22 PM EDT ()

Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield issued a report yesterday about the MySpace/Google ad deal concluding that "Google doesn't care about social networking.

technology, google, twitter, social-media, marketing, ads

Liam Neeson races to critically injured Natasha Richardson's bedside

Seeded on Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:13 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Actor Liam Neeson has left the Toronto set of Atom Egoyan's sexual thriller "Chloe" and rushed to Montreal to be with his injured wife, Natasha Richardson.

entertainment, actors, liam-neeson

Is Kindling a Verb

Seeded on Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:19 AM EDT (ecolobris)

ebooks are becoming increasingly more popular, one author asks the question, is kindling become a verb, as google did?

technology, ebook, kindle, reader, ecology

Duplicity Mixes Love and Spies

Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 5:00 PM EST (Hollywood Today)

Clive Owen and Julia Roberts as corporate spooks working for rival firms after the same prize

entertainment, film, julia-roberts, clive-owen

the Streets, Curtis Sliwa LIVE

Seeded on Tue Mar 3, 2009 3:16 PM EST (abc radio)

From the Suites to the Streets, Curtis Sliwa LIVE – a three-hour program featuring an interactive discussion of the top news stories of the day. Sliwa, who founded The Guardian Angels community safety organization, has been broadcasting on 77 WABC in New York since 1990.

entertainment, podcast, curtis, sliwa

Seniors Dating More and More Online

Seeded on Tue Mar 3, 2009 2:52 PM EST (Newsblaze)

With the continual rise in individuals signing-up to adult dating sites to organise no strings attached sex, My-Fbuddy, a new upbeat and light-hearted dating site, has reported that it isn't just the twenty and thirty something year olds that are becoming new members, its also th …

health, online, dating, senior, dating-sites, adults

Pink bottlenose dolphin photographed in US thought to be world's first - mirror.co.uk

Seeded on Mon Mar 2, 2009 2:50 PM EST (Mirror.co.uk)

a pink dolphin... not photoshoped.

world-news, pink, dolphin

Keep Your Hands Clean To Keep the Flu Away

Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:43 PM EST

Hand washing instructionsClean Hands Save Lives! By Ane Howard

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health, virus, washing, flu, cold, prevention

Reality Digital Launches 'Harmony' Social Media Platform

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:32 PM EST (Newsblaze)

Reality Digital Harmony, a new self-service social media platform for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) that want to create affordable, white-label online video and social networking communities

technology, social-media, platforms, small-business

Peace Breaks Out? Obama Says US-Iraq Combat Mission to End by mid-2010

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:23 PM EST (hollywood today)

President Barack Obama appears to be making good on his claims to end the costly U.S. presence in Iraq - and in no short order. But Veteran groups are saying that leaving 50,000 troops behind is not ending the war. Controversy on the horizon

world-news, irak, war, obama

Youthful activists in Poznan demand economic bailouts connect to "Green New Deal'"

Seeded on Thu Dec 4, 2008 1:32 PM EST (RushPRnews newswire)

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world-news, climate-change, poznan, poland, environment, conference, un, ecology, activist, green

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ThXs for the invite Ane. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you I've been very sick. Getting better but still coming along slow. ThXs again have a great evening.

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