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Yogaâ€™s New Wave

jim wilde — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:18:15 +0000

Well, maybe it is the recession, but some yogis are now saying â€œPeace outâ€ to all that. At the forefront of the movement is Yoga to the People, which opened its first studio in 2006 in the East Village on St. Marks Place, with a contribution-only, pay-what-you-can fee structure. The manifesto is on the opening page of its Web site, yogatothepeople.com: â€œThere will be no correct clothes, There will be no proper payment, There will be no right answers ... No ego no script no pedestals.â€

Thereâ€™s a brewing resistance to the expense, the cult of personality, the membership fees.

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For Webâ€™s New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point

jim wilde — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:35:30 +0000

To Silicon Valleyâ€™s deep thinkers, this is all part of one big trend: People are becoming more relaxed about privacy, having come to recognize that publicizing little pieces of information about thems

T.M.I? Not for Sites Focused on Sharing

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Sleeping pods

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:58:20 +0000

10 minute naps in sleeping pods at work

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What IT, Business Really Think of Each Other - Research

jim wilde — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:51:00 +0000

Only 20 percent of the respondents gave IT and business leaders a grade of â€œAâ€ or â€œBâ€ for how well they have leveraged technology. Only 25 percent of business leaders consider themselves IT-smart, with around 50 percent of business leaders admitting that they make half-baked requests, they want it allâ€”regardless of ROIâ€”they change their minds about what they want their systems to do and they donâ€™t know how to use their systems.

Alignment, in numbers. IT and business leaders give themselves low marks for IT smarts, according to new research from Valuedance and Harvard Business Review.

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