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Eco Jargon - Green Collar Jobs (GALLERY)
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Following up on the words you need to know in the cyberworld today is "bacn," pronounced like the greasy breakfast staple. It describes those emails you receive that you want, but just not yet. You'll get to them later. Wikipedia defines the term as "electronic messages which have been subscribed to…[More]
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Lingo 2.0: Bacn - Email You Want, But Not Right Now (VIDEO)
When it comes to having a natural talent to mangle the English language and limited ability to retain accurate facts Miss South Carolina has a role model in the President of the United States such as America. The President’s linguistic gifts, dubbed “Bushisms”, are a new national treasure that…[More]
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Bushisms – President Bush a Shining Example for Miss South Carolina (VIDEO)
According to the LA Times, "Naming a company is far more difficult than naming a child. The name needs to sound snappy, separate its young company from the pack, and provide a unique Web address. 'Old-school ideas about sounding trustworthy or sounding big are not as important as they used to be," s…[More]
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Stupid Names Get Attention - Catchword Branding Creates: Vudu, Promptu, BooRah, ItzBig
Sometimes even scientists have a hard time understanding the heavy, technical jargon of research papers. They're hoping that by sharing video presentations, ideas will flow more quickly within the scientific community and enable new ideas to evolve more quickly. The site was launched by the National…[More]
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YouTube for Scientists - SciVee Video Sharing (VIDEO)
As with every time period, a new vocabulary accompanies the latest trends. Web 2.0 came with its own set of jargon that to the unfamiliar, would be absolute jibber-jabber. Here's the term of the day:
Windorphins (win-dor'finz)
A new e-Bay-coined term describing the euphoric sensation accompanying …[More]
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Lingo 2.0 - Windorphins, An eBay By-Product (VIDEO)
Everyday, for the past two years, I get an email with a beautiful, postcard-sized painting from one Julian Merrow-Smith of France. "Postcard from Provence", it's called - and the painting is priced at $100. Lately, Julian has taken to auctioning his paintings, which start at $100. He is but one of t…[More]
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A Painting a Day - Self-Disciplined Artists Reach Out to Markets (VIDEO)
"Support Local" is an emerging theme in the Green Movement. This diversely interpreted concept translates usually into activities and lifestyle that support the local economy - which, then, is the linchpin of local growth. In time, this should take care of the world. Theoretically.
The 100 Mile Di…[More]
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100 Mile Diet - Local Eating for Global Change
When we imagine "tourism," we imagine beaches, comfortable hotels, sometimes a sport, and at other times natural discovery. But now, darker forms of tourism are gaining popularity in an increasingly news-strung world. It's called Dark Tourism - and one of its genres is Grief Tourism.
According to …[More]
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Grief Tourism - When Travelers Seek Tragedy
South Africa's NEDBank won a Cannes Lions 2007 Grand Prix Award in outdoor advertising for what is believed to be the world's first solar-powered billboard. The topper? This revolutionary billboard uses the power it generates to power the kitchen of a local school - helping prepare food for 1100 kid…[More]
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Solar Empowering Billboard - NEDBank Billboard Lights Up School Kitchen (VIDEO)
Pulled by two Percheron horses and ensconced in a pine box adorned with a garland of flowers the N-word was laid to rest in Detroit. Will other minorities follow suit and bury racial epithets?[More]
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The N-word, Six Feet Under – The NAACP Buries the Racial Slur (VIDEO)
Scientist? Can measure disease progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease/ Motorneuron Disease) for US$ 1,000,000? Get on over to InnoCentive.com - the crowdsourcing R&D wonder.
The Low-Down on Crowdsourcing
The crowd knows best - is the mantra of the crowdsourcing r…[More]
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Crowdsourced R&D - InnoCentive Poses Million Dollar Challenge
Assignment Zero is an experiment in professional-amateur journalism: amateurs write/report, professionals edit. Everybody wins. And with this, "pro-am journalism" enters the lingo of the new world of media.
This win-win-win models solves one of the problems related with citizen/crowdsourced journ…[More]
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Crowdsourced Journalism - Assignment Zero: an Experiment in Pro-Am Journalism
It’s almost as bright as Jupiter and four times as bright as Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. This thanks to the new solar arrays that the Space Shuttle Atlantis just delivered and the astronauts space walked to snap together. If it’s so bright why haven’t you seen it? Well since it orbi…[More]
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Space Station Becomes the Brightest Manmade Object in the Sky (GALLERY)
Technology is changing everything including our very language and the way that we speak. It's responsible for the creation and use of new terms and new words. And if you don't want to appear out of touch, you definite need to be hip with the jargon. In fact, some 'slang' terminology becomes so mains…[More]
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Blamestorming, Mouse Potato and Swipeouts - Technology Inspired Lingo
NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. The company currently has thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. (88858 members in 3379 cities as of May 6, 2007; and even my city Karachi is featured.)
Just for the lov…[More]
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Crowdsourced Journalism - The News is NowPublic.com
Fofoa Ekuata is a plantation owner in Samoa. She needs US$ 875/- to buy a box of Cramoxon, a pest management system. She is asking for help via Kiva.org, a website where anyone can be a banker to the poor.
It's not charity, it's investment. Entrepreneurs vetted by on-ground NGOs are presented on K…[More]
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Microfinance @ Kiva.org, Become a Banker to the Poor
If "Green Business" (by any other name) means business embracing the concepts of environmentalism, then Enviropreneurship (ENVP) means environmentalists learning the concepts of business. ENVP is about "bringing market principles to resolve environmental problems." It encourages market-based solutio…[More]
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Enviropreneurship - When Environmentalism Met Business
Watch what other people/groups are watching. Watch who is watching you. Broadcast your attention.
Welcome to Atten TV: a media network that lets anyone be a broadcaster, and lets others watch others' broadcast streams. Yes. It's *that* inter-twined.
How does it work:
"As you spend more time onli…[More]
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Social Media - Atten TV Lets You Watch and Be Watched
For some time, I have been wondering how good it would be if Google allows web searchers to RANK/ Rate the search results? That would cut out a lot of irrelevant searches. Well, it seems, Younanimous answers some questions. Straight from the source:
"Younanimous is a new twist on a old idea. For ye…[More]
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Social Web - Younanimous: Meta-Search Engine With Interactivity
After years of success in their own field a sudden decline on Rap music sales and adult spam has been presently formidable. Rap music sales dropped by 21 percent reaching its lowest peak and not a single rap album made it on the top 10 sellers last year. Polls show that people are tired of negativ…[More]
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Rap Falls Out of Favor - Sales Drop 21%, No Rap Album in 2006 Top 10
No longer do tourists have to just walk in and out of a very "interesting area" - they can actually VOLUNTOUR. The idea is to "combine travel and service" - says Voluntourism.org.
It's "a really great way to have a holiday AND actively contribute to the destination you are visiting," says Go Diffe…[More]
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Voluntourism - Volunteerism + Tourism
Social Entrepreneurship is serious business - and some are calling it the business model of the 21st century.
So. Who are social entrepreneurs that your cool-hunting friend had been talking about so enthusiastically over coffee this afternoon? ASHOKA (http://www.ashoka.org), innovators in the field…[More]
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Social Entrepreneurs - A Megatrend
Muhammad Yunus, the Nobelist who created "micro finance," coined the term Conscious Capitalism. Patricia Aburdene saw it as a "moral transformation" and "today's greatest mega-trend" way back in fall 2005. Social networks such as Orkut have been abuzz with it. And now finally, Conscious Capitalism h…[More]
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Conscious Capitalism - Dirty Business No More
What is LOHAS? According to LOHAS.COM: "LOHAS is an acronym for 'Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability,' a market segment focused on health and fitness, the environment, personal development, sustainable living, and social justice."
In the wake of realizing the inconvenient truth about ecological…[More]
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LOHAS - Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability
Express your opinion by tagging outdoor ads with a sticker. Ad Tagging is a rising guerrilla action where organized individuals are raising consumer awareness about ad quality by vandalizing ads with rating stickers. Adverblog tells us, "In Berlin and Seoul guerrilla "soldiers" have been tagging …[More]
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Ad Tagging - Express Your Opinion with a Sticker
The new BBC advertising campaign, "Show Both Sides of the Story," does just that. The angle: get corner billboard space everywhere and juxtapose news on each corner.
Credits
BBDO New York
Bill Bruce (Chief Creative Officer)
David Lubars (Chief Creative Officer)
Eric Silver (Executive Creative Di…[More]
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Cornervertising - BBC Ads Show Both Sides of the Story (GALLERY)
Horsemorshing is getting more and more common with online marketers and bloggers. It starts with an online marketer using a horsemorsh (which means a made up word) as a topic of interest to pique the interests of readers in forums and other online mediums as a substitute for their own name or links.…[More]
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Horsemorshing - Creating Words to Drive Traffic
A scent-strip ad in the Aug. 24 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine to promote the second season of Showtime's "Weeds" may smell like pot getting smoked, or marijuana in a bag or even, yes, hippies.You may get yourself a copy to check if it is close enough to the real thing..lol[More]
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Scentvertising - Eau de Marijuana in Rolling Stone?
Why bother with cold turkey when you can just get a vaccine? Medical researches are testing radical new drugs which would allow smokers to immunize them against cigarette addiction.
From MSNBC:
The treatment keeps nicotine from reaching the brain, making smoking less pleasurable and theoretically,…[More]
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