TweetCharlie Todd created Improv Everywhere, which defines itself as “a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places”. At TEDxBloomington, Charlie presents some of the their most famous projects and the inspiration behind them. Funny and intense, it shows how to create shared experiences, a necessary ingredient for [...]
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TweetIt’s kind of a cliché to post this video now, but I cannot think of a more appropriate video for today’s Friday Speaker . I’ve you’ve watched it already, it won’t hurt to go through it again. This version is hosted by dotSub, a company I’ll be writing about soon. It includes subtitles in several [...]
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TweetBen Hammersley (web, twitter) is quite an erudite technologist and wears many hats, like being Editor at Large at Wired UK but also a messenger from the past. Last week at PICNIC ’11 in Amsterdam, he brought a message from Lord Kelvin: “Radio has no future. Heavier than air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will [...]
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TweetDuring the first part of this talk I was rather distracted and kept looking around my desk or through my Twitter feed. But at a certain point I joined the dots of what was being said… or actually, the speaker did it for me… and I realized it was an enlightening presentation for my everyday [...]
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TweetWe all need to get things done, that’s live. But for David Allen, having a solid method for getting things done (“GTD”) helps us get down to want is really important, to our role in this world. By clearing the mind from what we have to do, we also clear or psychic space, which allows [...]
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TweetI met Tara Hunt (blog, twitter, wikipedia) a couple of years ago at a party or something like that in San Francisco. At the time she had just published The Whuffie Factor, an interesting, an interesting book on social networks and business. Now, in this talk from TEDxConcordia, she delivers a passionate… no, a PASSIONATE [...]
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TweetThe Arab World is in revolt… one full of hope that will surely define the start of a new era. Wadah Khanfar, Director General of Al Jazeera, makes a passionate description of what is happening right now and what the outcome could be. This was the first talk from TED 2011 published online. Enjoy and wish [...]
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TweetOn this peek preview of the movie PressPausePlay, author and speaker Seth Godin goes back to the original stimulus for writing his influential book Unleashing the Ideavirus (download e-book). A great book to read or re-read if you haven’t done so in a long time and a very interesting movie to look forward to. Wish you all a [...]
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TweetI have such a backlog of content and interviews so I decided to increase my to-do list by curating a new weekly section: Friday Speaker – AKA interesting presentations from events around the world. The first presentation is by David Heinemeier Hansson (web, twitter), co-founder of the innovative cloud-based software company 37 Signals and co-author of the [...]
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