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junecohen

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Owl Lane Media
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EDGE essay 2010

After 11 incredible years at TED -- for which I'll always be grateful -- I’ve moved on to pursue several creative, entrepreneurial opportunities at the frontier of media. I’m in the midst of launching a media start-up, along with my partner Deron Triff (Former Head of Media Partners for TED, e.g., TED Radio Hour, TED Books, TED on Netflix, etc.). We consider ourselves a content incubator, focused on launching formula-defying media properties that can thrive across platforms. We’re at work on a VR series with Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, an audio series with TED and Audible (featuring anonymous TED talks), and several other series that haven’t been announced.

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Chinua Achebe: Some reflections

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Chinua Achebe: Some reflections

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The world lost one of its literary giants today. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at the age 82. For Nigerians, Achebe was a national treasure. He was the first African writer to attract international acclaim, and an outspoken leader with far-reaching influence on both politics and culture. Emeka Okafor, who produced the TEDGlobal conference in []

TED Talks: 5 years and 500 million served

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TED Talks: 5 years and 500 million served

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On June 27, 2006, we flipped the switch on TED Talks, bringing talks from TED to the world for the first time. It was early days for online video — YouTube was just a year old; the video iPod had been around for six months — so we launched with six talks and modest goals, []

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TEDWomen: Join the conversation

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Our announcement last week of TEDWomen has touched off some really vibrant conversations online. Some have embraced the idea; others have reservations. At TED, we’ve been reading with interest and weighing in on occasion. After reading a number of blog posts and articles, I thought I’d take a moment to weigh in here, and clarify []

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Q&A with Chef Dan Barber: Can organic farming feed the world?

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At TED2010, Chef Dan Barber drew a standing ovation with his unlikely love story about fish: sustainably farmed, outrageously delicious fish, which offers a model for the future of food production. A key figure in the farm-to-table movement, Dan occupies an unusual space as chef-scholar: His op/eds appear regularly in The New York Times and []

New insight on an ancient disease: Malaria, like HIV, came from chimps

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At TED2009, Stanford Professor and virus hunter Nathan Wolfe explained that most human diseases — AIDS, SARS, swine flu — originally came from animals. Today, Wolfe and his team announced an intriguing discovery that throws new light on an ancient disease, and provides new hope for its cure: Malaria, long believed to have evolved with []

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TEDGlobal Day 1: Quotes of the Day

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“Imagine if we could combine the power of a global ethic with our new power to communicate and organize globally.” – UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown “Next time you see someone in a Ferrari, don’t think: ‘They’re greedy.” Think: “This is someone incredibly vulnerable and in need of love.” – Alain De Botton, on the []

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Unveiling: TED's plans for subtitles, transcripts, translations

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Last week at TED2009, we unveiled the next phase of TED.com, which will bring TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world. The new features — slated to launch next month — will bring subtitles and interactive transcripts to all the talks, and will allow anyone, anywhere, to translate any talk into any language. Rather than simply translate []

Announcing the winner of the TED Pumpkin Prize

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The winner receives $1, and more important — a wish to change something in the office. They were encouraged to think big (but cheap). Our amazing video team took time out from the Big Re-Upload to snag the prize with Joe the Encoder (left). We didn’t catch their wish, actually. Maybe next year.

UPDATED: Photo of one of the world's last "uncontacted" tribes

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If you’ve seen Wade Davis’s unforgettable 2004 TED Talk — where he evokes the magic of the world’s cultural diversity, and speaks so eloquently about the alarming rate with which cultures and languages are dying — then you might find this photo as heart-stopping as I did. It’s so surreal, I thought at first it []

Opening the TED archive (beginning with Negroponte, circa 1984)

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Today we’re throwing open the door to our back archive, beginning with Nicholas Negroponte’s talk from TED 1. Yes, TED 1. 1984. TED’s co-founders, Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks, had the foresight to record every conference he held. And I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to see the full archive for the first []

TED2008: Days 3 and 4 in Quotes

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Photos: Andrew Heavens “Imagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’” – Boston Philharmonic conductor Ben Zander, on the importance of persuasive leadership “Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying []