TEDBlog March, 2010 Archive
13 March 2010
New Best of the Web talk: Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!) At the Web 2.0 Expo, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk gives a shot in the arm to dreamers and up-and-comers who face self-doubt. The Internet has made the formula for success simpler than ever, he argues. So there’s now no excuse not to do what makes you happy. |
12 March 2010
The magic of the placebo: Eric Mead on TED.com
Sugar pills, injections of nothing — studies show that, more often than you’d expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something’s not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not suitable for viewers who are disturbed by needles or blood.) (Recorded at TEDMED, October 2009 in San Diego, CA. Duration: 9:06)
Watch Eric Mead’s talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDTalks.
11 March 2010
Come see TED's two panels at SXSW
South by Southwest 2010 starts Friday in Austin, Texas, and the TED team is heading down to present two panels:
How to Create a Viral Video
Saturday, March 13, 11am
From pranks and mashups to world-changing talks, viral videos infect our minds every day. But how does a video go viral? Margaret Gould Stewart from YouTube, Jonathan Wells from Flux.net and Jason Wishnow, TED.com’s Director of Film + Video, share strategies — from editing to distribution to, well, having the right friends. Plus: hear direct from Damian Kulash of OK Go about their new 7-million-views-in-9-days music video — and how his label’s ban on embedding video led OK Go, just yesterday, to leave the majors and start their own label.
(We’re having an OK Go moment here at TED. If you haven’t yet seen the jawdropping treadmill video — watch it. And the new, also jawdropping video for “This Too Shall Pass,” proudly embedded above. They know from viral video.)
Offering Your Content in 100 Languages
Sunday, March 14, 9:30am
The web is a global medium, but most websites are siloed in a single language. A social translation program is one way to make your website more accessible to a global audience, while also turning users into contributors. Is social translation an option for your website? If so, how do you ensure quality? What motivates volunteers? Is machine translation an option? Learn from leading-edge social translation projects, including panelists from Global Voices and Mozilla, as well as June Cohen, who oversees TED’s massive Open Translation Project, which has so far subtitled TEDTalks in 72 languages and counting.
10 March 2010
Ozomatli: Hear the new single and see our exclusive photos
The awesome LA band Ozomatli rocked TED’s Wednesday night block party in Long Beach last month — check out our exclusive photos from the street (and see many more photos here).
You can stream Ozomatli’s new single, “It’s Only Paper,” from their upcoming album Fire Away (due out April 20). Spinner.com calls the single a “dance-heavy sonic mosaic of hip-hop, funk and Latin grooves” with a socially conscious message — and a guest vocal from Jack Johnson. (At right, below, is another Ozo fan: ukulele star Jake Shimabukuro.)
Top and bottom photos: TED / Marla Aufmuth. Center photo: TED / James Duncan Davidson.
10 March 2010
How I fell in love with a fish: Dan Barber on TED.com
Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie’s honeymoon he’s enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 19:02)
Watch Dan Barber’s talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDTalks.
09 March 2010
Gary Lauder's new traffic sign: Take Turns
Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of “Stop” and “Yield” — and asks drivers to be polite. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010, in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 4:27)
Watch Gary Lauder’s talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDTalks.
08 March 2010
The year open data went worldwide: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com
At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED U in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. (Recorded at TED University 2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 20:07)
Watch Tim Berners-Lee’s talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDTalks.
06 March 2010
New Best of the Web talks: Richard Feynman, Srikumar Rao
Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they’re made of. This accessible, enchanting conversation in physics reveals a teeming nano-world that’s just plain fun to imagine. |
Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Columbia University, he teaches us how to break free of the “I’d be happy if …” mental model, and embrace our hard-wired happiness. |
05 March 2010
Exclusive photos: The LXD in rehearsal
This morning, we shared the LXD’s tremendous TED2010 performance with the world. But on the night before TED started, some of us on staff got a private preview, when we snuck away from our pre-TED prep to watch them practice for the first time on the TED stage. Photographer Duncan Davidson caught these intimate shots of the LXD dancers, choreographers and friends.
See lots more photos of LXD in rehearsal >>
Photos: TED / James Duncan Davidson
05 March 2010
In the Internet age, dance evolves: The LXD on TED.com
The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chu’s upcoming Web series, this astonishing troupe show off their superpowers. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 17:30)
Watch The LXD’s performance on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDTalks.
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