Film
Blink: The Movie
Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink: The power of thinking without thinking,” will be adapted to a feature film, starring Leonard DiCaprio.
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Film
Raiders: A tribute
Our trio of cross-country TED salons wrapped up this week with a screening at the gorgeous vintage Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood. TED has always celebrated creativity, innovation, and the passionate pursuit of a vision that others might have written of as … crazy. So when we heard that three teenagers in Mississippi had re-created […]
Biology
Brilliant, Larry
A wonderful evening in Woodside last night with TED Prize Winner Dr Larry Brilliant and 100 TEDsters. He shared a little of his story, his involvement in the eradication of smallpox, and his current desire to do something about the risk of an avian flu pandemic.He was simultaneously terrifying and inspiring, and provoked a remarkable […]
Perils of URLs
An email this morning from TEDster Julian Treasure gave me huge pleasure. Unbelievably, these are all real sites. ————A few salutary examples that should make us all think twice… Firstly there is Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: http://www.whorepresents.com Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can […]
Biology
Olivia Judson on evolution in progress
Olivia Judson (TED2005) has a provocative piece in the Sunday New York Times, tying together two timely topics in the TED community: Avian flu and the evolution “debate.” Judson, the evolutionary biologist who wrote Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation, explains how the nail-biting progression of Avian Flu (Will it jump from birds to […]
Development
In search of 250 souls with knowledge to share
So, the quirky competition I launched last week relating to Pledgebank.com has a winner. It is TEDster Lucy Hooberman. She’s looking to re-ignite an idea that was floated at TED in February (literally… it came from the World-Changing Ideas Cruise). The idea is to set up a Global Mentoring Alliance… the sharing of knowledge from […]
Music
Check out Imogen Heap's new CD…
Imogen ("Immi") made a splash at TED2004 as the female half of Frou Frou. Her new CD "Speak for Yourself" launched this week, the title being an apt description of how the CD was produced – she did the whole thing from her own studio, writing all the songs, and playing every instrument. The result […]
Development
New meets old: Wikipedia may go to print
At TEDGlobal this summer, Jimmy Wales outlined his vision for Wikipedia, his online storehouse of knowledge, collaboratively written by unpaid volunteers worldwide. His goal: to provide everyone in the world access to a free encyclopedia. But not just through the web. Eventually, he told us, he’d like to create a print version, as well. He […]
Design
The season's best buyer's guide
Leave it to Mark Hurst to not only write an extraordinary buyer’s guide, but also provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for doing so. Mark (founder of Good Experience) is a long-time advocate of the user experience, broadly defined. And lately he’s been troubled by twin themes: complexity and choice. Complexity in consumer products (It’s a […]
Design
National Design Awards
The 2005 U.S. National Design Awards were announced last week, with several of our TED friends among them. Congratulations to Burt Rutan (Product design), Stefan Sagmeister (Communication design), and Eva Zeisel (lifetime achievement). Well done!
Biology
On Communicating
A special report from Forbes.com covers the broad topic of Communicating in some interesting ways: from the origins of language in chimps to alien contact to the latest computer interfaces (including the SUI, or Straw-like User Interface, which lets you experience the sensations of drinking). Many TED voices here (Steven Pinker, Jane Goodall, Ray Kurzweil, […]
Environment
White light from 98% less energy…
Another intriguing post from our friends at Worldchanging.com…
Confidence in numbers
Here’s a brilliant new website, pledgebank. The idea’s simple. Make a pledge, any pledge, conditional on a number of other people joining in. Pledges can be symmetrical (everyone does the same thing)… "I will march on the White House in protest at X, if 1,000 people will join me." "I will […]
Business
Are we inside Bubble 2.0?
Something truly significant is happening right now in the world of web creation. Engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors are buzzing with the possibilities of web 2.0 technologies, and the interactive applications they enable. There’s an energy — even a joyfulness — pervading the industry that this former web gal hasn’t seen since perhaps 1999. The web […]
Huge story… largely ignored
Given that everyone’s top wish, politicians and bimbos alike, is supposed to be “world peace,” you’d think that when a detailed, intensely-researched, highly credible report is published suggesting spectacular progress in that direction, it would be front-page news in the media. You’d be wrong. The Human Security Report 2005 published last week included the following […]
Design
A design space to watch
TEDster Diego Rodriguez, who works with IDEO, teaches at the Stanford d. School, and writes the influential blog metacool, debuts his BusinessWeek Online column today. We’ll be watching that space …