The question on researchers’ minds is whether all that texting, instant messaging and online social networking allows children to become more connected and supportive of their friends — or whether the quality of their interactions is being diminished without the intimacy and emotional give and take of [...]

Hello, this is Chakra Girl reporting LIVE from the Capitol of Power. It’s White Chakra Sunday, February 28, 2010 and this is The Weekly Buzz on the Third EyeWitness Newz. We sense it first, invest in it, flip it and you hear about it afterwards.
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Hello, this is Chakra Girl reporting LIVE from the Capitol of Power. It’s White Chakra Sunday, February 21, 2010 and this is The Weekly Buzz on the Third EyeWitness Newz. We sense it first, invest in it, flip it and you hear about it afterwards.
But first, let’s hear a word from our sponsor, Hostwire.com.
Red: In [...]

Hello, this is Chakra Girl reporting LIVE from Snorrrrrelando, en route to my next assignment in Washington, DC. At present, I am still safe in the warm weather, but I’m watching the newz reports from up north and Brrrrrrrr, looks like I won’t be able to fly around with my chakras all exposed anymore! LOL!
I [...]

What happens after the climate crisis? A new movie with Pete Postlethwaite and Piers Guy.
The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from [...]

An alternative to panicking when GDP stops growing is to view it as a sign of maturity.
Human activity cannot expand forever on our finite planet. An economy growing at 3% a year doubles its size every 24 years. Centuries of such growth have brought us to a mature size. As with individual maturity, there comes [...]

by Watwood Monkeezdu
12 June 2009
www.CultureChange.org
Brand names, corporate logos, behavioral patterns, entrainment of the masses by corporate media - these are the components of a virus that is now driving cultural behavior worldwide, but precious remaining resources necessary for survival are being decimated. Read more…

US is behind in mobile compared to other countries.
And mobile is 10 years behind online.
Easy to blast but difficult to talk back and forth.
There are 250M cell phone subscribers in the US.
600 billion text messages were sent out last year.
To monetize, Fonemine creates a platform.
You can do mobile coupon campaigns. 10 cents per message; 2 [...]

TOKYO, JP — Over at GreenTech Media, Michael Kanellos has posted a great roundup of some of the cutting edge technologies he saw at the CEATEC expo in Japan. Kanellos writes that, after decades of pioneering not just electronics in general but also energy-efficient technologies, some of the country’s — and the world’s — biggest [...]

An artist’s rendering of Babcock Ranch, which will be located near Fort Myers, Fla. - Kitson & Partners
A Florida developer wants to build a $2 billion planned community in southwest Florida. If the plans go through, the community would be the first to be entirely powered by the sun.

A new Stanley Foundation project examines ways in which the international community could become more unified over the next ten years. The foundation asked contributing authors to describe the paths by which nine powerful nations, the European Union, and a multinational corporation could all emerge as constructive stakeholders in a strengthened rules-based international order. Read [...]

The New York Times reported that, according to President Obama, the government’s failure to inspect 95 percent of food processing plants “is a hazard to the public health.”  “In the end, food safety is something I take seriously, not just as your president, but as a parent,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly radio and [...]

Conflicts associated with natural resources are twice as likely to relapse into conflict in the first five years, an imminent report suggests. Indeed the natural resource curse has been a primary determinant of intra-state conflict in terrible theatres of war such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia. Yet it extends far beyond the [...]

by Chakra Girl
The purple (or indigo) chakra, i.e. my third eye, a.k.a. Ajna, is responsible for creating all the amazing art I saw this week during Art Basel. The world comes to me and Miami every first week of December. We are so freaking lucky. Vernissage, or the opening night at the Miami Beach Convention [...]

Hello, this is Chakra Girl reporting live from The Multimedia District in North Miami. It’s Green Chakra Thursday, October 30, 2008, and this is your eyewitness news:
The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe and other major newspapers are laying off staff en masse. Why? The Internet. We are going through a major communication renaissance that is [...]