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View Article  The LIME is healthy!
Saw this article on the New York Times, about LIME, "Healthy Living With a Twist".

Called a "New Age" channel - and it does have Deepak Chopra - what I notice is the full multi-media platform.  Like Integral Naked, or like Noetic Institute's Shift In Action, the platform includes video, audio - and in the case of LIME, blogging.   Probably some other stuff I haven't run across...

Also, from a simple marketing perspective - I notice that there will be a radio channel on Sirius, for LIME. 

Given the amount of material at Integral Naked now, I wonder if anyone over there has thought of arranging alternative distributions of some of the multimedia content on Integral Naked?

Lastly - given the explosion of content - video, audio, text, blogging, that now inundates anyone who is "connected", the last remaining puzzle which isn't present is community programs and participation.




View Article  Speaking integral to the audience
Integral Options has an analysis of Hilary Clinton as a politician - and goes into how she uses language to appeal to different value systems, in the same speech.

Check it out.
View Article  Social Networks Diagram
Great diagram from How to Save the World, about how social networking works, and the tech tools that have developed to serve this need.
View Article  Two good social integral analyses
The first is by Joe Perez, titled "Gay Culture's Over - What's Next?".

What I like about this article, and the article by Sullivan this points to, is the shifting sense of identity in the cultural world, and how identity changes over time.  Am I identified as gay, as buddhist, as a nationalist, as whatever the heck I am?  With this identification, do I wall myself off with those who share my identifications, or do I still interact with others outside of that identification?  Do I claim my ethnic background (in some sense a smaller sense of identity), and go out from there to a larger embrace of universal and spiritual values, or do I minimize an ethnic background, in order to emphasize my embrace of integral or spiritual values?

Also Tuff Ghost has a great integral analysis on the clash of values embodies by the death of Theo Van Gogh

Particularly the discussion of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is a female Muslim apostate, threatened by other fundamentalist Muslims in her country.

While it is very easy to say the ideal is "unity-in-diversity", in practice, values that are held important by me, or anyone, are in a sense violated all the time, either of a secular or religious nature.  So there are fundamental commitments that we have - whether to certain social freedoms, the ability to wear certain clothes, or not others, the ability to allow certain practices, and not others.

What is allowed and not allowed in practice, what you approve of, or dont approve of - economically, socially, artistically, and religiously - we all have these stated and unstated commitments.