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		<title>Why Twitter Makes You Smarter</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/578</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[personal productivity]]></category>
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I developed my Twitter practices  based on a decade of academic research on religion, culture, and emerging media.  Twitter can make you smarter if used correctly.  Here&#8217;s how:
Identify Relevant Trends 
Publish 10-20 Tweets per day, a combination of retweets and originals.  At the end of the week you&#8217;ll have about 100+ to review.  Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is that a Social Media Guru or are you just getting old?</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/552</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 04:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media Strategy]]></category>

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Would you trust someone to produce advertisements for television because they can use your remote control?
Would you hire someone to do print ads based on whether they could read a magazine?
Of course not, that seems ridiculous, because everyone knows that television and print ads take a lot of skill, training, and expertise to produce.
But look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before It Was &#8220;Social Media&#8221; It Was Just Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/528</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myspace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social sharing]]></category>

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I worked at Heavy.com years ago.  We still have  Heavy reunions.  They had beer Fridays, a young corporate culture,  sponsored events like private concerts with MiniKiss, the  miniature Kiss cover band, and it was a fun place to work.

There was no such thing as social media, we did what intuitively made sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergence &#8211; Pictures from India</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/504</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and New Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dal Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rishikesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shivaratri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Varanasi]]></category>

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This is my first blog post after six months of travel throughout Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and India.  Where to begin?  How about pics of my favorite places &#8211; I&#8217;ll start with a few from India
The above picture is of a Shiva sadhu.  He walks naked covered in ash, carrying his trident in one hand with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off to Southeast Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/496</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and New Individualism]]></category>

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I will be traveling for the next several months in Southeast Asia and will be writing infrequently on this blog but devoting time to finishing my book, which I&#8217;m tentatively calling Buddha to Brooklyn &#8211; a Reluctant Memoir.
The book explores my perceptions on the co-evolution of modern marketing and the social sciences primarily from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visualizing Sound</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/491</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and New Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hinduism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mantras]]></category>

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I&#8217;ve always been fascinated with sound and believed since an early age that rhythms contained and could unlock intrinsic patterns to the underlying core of our being.
In the above clip Evan Grant demonstrates cymatics, the science and art of making soundwaves visible.  I found the patterns he unveiled to be strikingly similar to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone MacWorld Cover From Concept to Print</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/484</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Publishing and Distribution]]></category>

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Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.
This excellent time-lapse video by Peter Belanger follows him and Rob Schultz in their collaborative process of creating a recent cover of MacWorld featuring the new iPhone.  Focus is on photography, layout in Photoshop, and design.
It&#8217;s fun to see the actual execution of a creative concept from start to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Beauty of Mother Nature</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/478</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and New Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HD video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature photography]]></category>

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Kuroshio Sea &#8211; 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world &#8211; (song is Please don&#8217;t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.
My colleague Jeff Malmad posted a link to the above video by Jon Rawlinson, a cinematographer and editor who specializes in documentary projects.  His shorts serve as poignant reminders of the simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha to Brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/459</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and New Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thich Nhat Hanh]]></category>

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I rarely post about personal experiences but felt compelled to share and reflect.
Last Sunday my good friend Pepe Lopez Waldron and I went to Blue Cliff Monastery to see the venerable Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, who is in the U.S. for two months for a short tour. Thich Nhat Hanh joined the monkhood at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Visual Content</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/440</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeff jarvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[murdoch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newscorp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video ad networks]]></category>

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A number of disparate stories and new technologies broke in the past week that sparked the following thoughts about the evolution of visual representations and content distribution.
Japanese researchers from Shinoda Labs unveiled touchable holograms this week at the Siggraph 2009 Conference for computer graphics and interactive techniques.   The system currently mimics balls and raindrops, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Hughes Died But Everything is Still Amazing</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/432</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trends and Trendspotting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john hughes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth culture]]></category>

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John Hughes helped define my childhood and the generation that grew up in the 80s.  The above YouTube video brought chills down my spine thinking back to my teens and before the age of mobile communications, emails, the internet, and the archipelago of technologies and platforms that we call social media.
I felt compelled to write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trending This Week</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/425</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/425#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trends and Trendspotting]]></category>

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Despite a 34% decrease in sales Lamborghini continues to push forward and above is a pic of their latest model, the Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder.  Classic cool, the economy continues to be weak, speculation about Twitter, Brazilian Graffiti, and much much more in this week&#8217;s trends:
Culture
The Impossible Cool &#8211; classic cool, the way cool should be
Brazilian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhythm and Universality and Short Thoughts on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/414</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/414#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and New Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
I stumbled across this video today and it made me happy.  You should watch it.  Bobby McFerrin talks about the universality of the Pentatonic Scale and how audiences always respond to it around the world.
Jump ahead and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discover Music That Matches Your Mood</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/405</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/405#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trends and Trendspotting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghostly Discovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone Applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music applications]]></category>

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Ghostly Discovery from Ghostly International on Vimeo.
I&#8217;ve been a fan of Ghostly and Spectral records since the labels first launched.  I remember going to their parties in Detroit and Ann Arbor when I lived in my home state of Michigan, and buying their records when 99% of techno djs would gag at the thought of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Big Investments from People who Don&#8217;t Understand &#8220;The Internet&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/390</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/390#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Publishing and Distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venture capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall street journal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Wallstreet Journal recently published an article proclaiming the end of internet investing.  Author James Altucher&#8217;s wholesale dismissal of &#8220;the internet,&#8221; from MySpace to Time Warner&#8217;s selling of AOL to the troubles of Facebook and Twitter to monetize their platforms, is both alarming and interesting.
I would agree with Altucher that &#8220;the internet&#8221; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networks and National Security</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/369</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iran and twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iran elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Sawers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[m16]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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Britain&#8217;s new M16, Sir John Sawers, has been called into question due to information sharing on Facebook by his wife.  Entries exposed where they lived, places they frequented, personal details about family members, including a brother that is a known Holocaust denier, and his bathing suit of choice that led the Guardian to publish the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Framing</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/360</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Theory]]></category>

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I spent a lot of time lately thinking about the ways in which many of the common narratives used to frame our perceptions of the present are being called into question.  The video above provides a simple illustration with implications for political oppression that seem somewhat obvious, but I think there is a more profound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brand Exposure Launches Dialogue On Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/343</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/343#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media Strategy]]></category>

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Brand Exposure was the first in a series of events hosted by Social Media Week and Notes on a Party.  The all-day event for senior brand managers interwove presentations from leading thought leaders and case studies of brands and agency partners including Veuve Clicquot, General Electric and charity: water and agencies such as Wolff Olins, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Students Laugh But The Truth Ain&#8217;t So Funny&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/332</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Economics and Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us trade deficit]]></category>

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Laughter of Chinese students filled the room  following Timothy Geithner&#8217;s statement that &#8220;Chinese assets are very safe,” reports the Times Online on the U.S. Treasury Secretary&#8217;s speech during his first visit to China.  China is the largest foreign holder of U.S. bonds worth $768 billion.
Trade barriers with China broke down in the last couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future is Always Uncertain, Relax</title>
		<link>http://www.socialmeditate.com/archives/323</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 18:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Passiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Economics and Policy]]></category>

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I came across this video on one of my favorite sites Everything is Terrible and it reminded me how uncertain the future always is.  It&#8217;s very unfortunate that excessive greed, poor lending policies, and over-spending behaviors culminated in the current economic crisis, but I think we need to remember to be cautious but not constantly [...]]]></description>
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