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Fix the world? Start with ideas
...everyone else. TEDxes are a recent offspring of the annual world-renowned nonprofit TED conference (www.ted.com), begun in 1984 to bring together thinkers and doers in the fields of...
SXSW panel: How to Create a Viral Video
...are constantly bombarded with "viral" videos, but how exactly does a video earn that designation? For the successful TED conference, the key to their online success was higher production...
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Google's public data: Much improved
...data, from standard line charts to the evolving bubble charts that have made Hans Rosling such a hit at TED. Donald Marron Donald B. Marron is a visiting professor at the...
Futurist: 'Supercities' are on the rise
...Wurman, an architect who taught at N.C. State University in the early 1970s, rocketed to fame as founder of the TED conference, a high-profile thought-fest in California that draws...
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Cleantech: Can David Learn to Love Goliath
...to sustainability. Now even Bill Gates has put his substantial shoulder to the climate wheel, with his recent TED speech. The most striking of the big corporate come-ons was unveiled by...
Benefits of a Tweet surrender
Virtually attend a conference Most conferences these days have a Twitter hashtag. At the exclusive TED conference in Long Beach, California, in February, for example, attendees...
Seven Questions For Week No. 10
...with No Carbon? Bill Gates thinks so. Here you can watch his 30-minute video talk on energy at a recent TED conference. Gates is too Al Gore-like on carbon's evils for my taste, but...
Where are the green startups?
...Venture Blog > 2010 > March > Where are the green startups? John Cook on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 1:59am PST At the TED conference last month, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called on...
"The only problem with adopting a retarded child is that the retarded child, when you are 80 is well, still retarded," she reportedly said, adding that her solution was going to be to adopt a terminally ill retarded kid. That stuff may kill at Zanies Comedy Club, but it's less popular among people hoping for African fractals. TED organizer Chris Anderson soon moaned via Twitter that he found Silverman "god-awful," ultimately posting on his blog that he wished Silverman well, but "I still think humor about terminally-ill 'retarded' kids is an acquired taste. And not a taste I personally want to acquire."
The battle over retard Salon | 3 weeks ago
Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide (TED Talk)
The very short TED talk by internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee shows a few of the interesting results where open data gets mashed up in various compelling data visualizations. The talk...
Google sexes up stats with Public Data Explorer - 10 live demos
...to people who saw an earlier version in a video of a presentation at the 2006 TED conference by researcher Hans Rosling. He dazzled jaded TED attendees with an 18-minute presentation of...
TEDxNYed: This is bullshit
But we must question this very form. We must enable students to question the form. I, too, like lots of TED talks. But having said that…. During the latest meeting of Mothership...
Google sexes up stats with Public Data Explorer
...people, many of whom first saw them in a video of a presentation at the 2006 TED conference by researcher Hans Rosling, who dazzled jaded TED attendees with an 18-minute presentation of...
