Archive for March, 2009

‘Spring Love’: free festival in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park (April 4-5)

30/03/2009
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‘Spring Love’: free festival in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park (April 4-5)


In 2004, I founded Peace Not War Japan (PNWJ) in Tokyo, a non-profit organisation that focused on using the arts to raise awareness about peace and conflict issues around the world and to raise funding for grassroots...
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A game changer? (WN0018)

26/03/2009
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A game changer? (WN0018)



For someone that converted to using Mac a few years ago and is generally loathe to sing Microsoft's praises having done so, I have to admit that the company does have something very cool indeed coming out - a surface computer, turning 'an ordinary tabletop into...
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The growth of Twitter, and a few words on Creative Commons

21/03/2009
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The growth of Twitter, and a few words on Creative Commons



In the above video, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams explains to a TED audience about how the service works, its phenomenal growth and how some of the truly inventive uses of the service have required the company to be led very much by its users. The...
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‘Will you eco-marry me?’

17/03/2009
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‘Will you eco-marry me?’


A friend of mine who works for the United Nations University's Media Studio in Tokyo has produced the above short documentary about a Japanese couple that decided to make their special day an eco-wedding.Read more »

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Sweet balms and sonic chaos

17/03/2009
By Globalism
Sweet balms and sonic chaos

This probably shouldn't even have happened, but it seems to work - and rather beautifully at that: The Flaming Lips cover Madonna's 'Borderline. See and hear for yourself.


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