Author Archives: Mark Szpakowski

Social Presencing Theater and Shadow Puppet Plays

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Mark Szpakowski

A year ago I blogged Social Presencing Theater, as described by Otto Scharmer: A new social art form I called Social Presencing Theater that stages media events and productions to connect different communities and their transformational stories by blending action research, theater, … Continue reading →

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Friend Connect Enables Inter-Site Wormholes and Creates Life!

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Mark Szpakowski

The OpenSocial blog has a good summary of  Google’s recently announced Friend Connect in the context of OpenSocial: … up until now, becoming a container – adding new social applications for your users – has meant having to provide your … Continue reading →

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Albert Hofmann in the Clearing of Being

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Mark Szpakowski

Albert Hofmann, who in 1938 synthesized the LSD molecule and in 1943 discovered its psychedelic (manifesting the psyche within/out) properties, died yesterday at the age of 102. He was struck by the coincidence of mankind having encountered LSD at the … Continue reading →

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