by JAK | Jun 27, 2013 | big ideas, culture, TEDx
As with previous TEDxAuckland events I am very pleased to be helping out again. The event is on Saturday August 3rd at Aotea Centre and is a brilliant and inspiring way to spend a day. One of the things that I love about the TEDx format is being able to spend a day...
by JAK | Jun 24, 2013 | culture, development
Earlier this week I viewed the 4 part Front line series on Money, Power and Wall Street which screened last year on PBS. One of the source interviews for that series came from Phil Angelides who had a ringside seat to look very closely at the crisis. Phil Angelides...
by JAK | Jun 23, 2013 | culture, industry futures
Last year on PBS Frontline there was a 4 part documentary series called Money, Power and Wall Street which tells the inside story of the GFC. As other media commentators have found out before a number of the contributing factors are well known 1/ Banking regulation...
by JAK | Jun 18, 2013 | culture, industry futures
This week I noticed two articles showing that after nearly 5 years various economies around the world are now showing some promising signs. According to some commentators the US is at last expecting economic growth of about 4% in 2014 /15 and this would be the best...
by JAK | Jun 16, 2013 | culture
Twitter has been around for a long time now. I forgot about Vizify but they are back with this little video bio compile tool. Increasingly social media will use video. Just made a movie of my twitter: https://t.co/DdyJXVhwuz Let me know what you think, then make your...
by JAK | May 17, 2013 | culture, music, TEDx, video
Omar Musa gave an electric poetic performance at TEDxSydney 2013. What I loved most about his talk is that his poem sounded like a conversation at first but then with the skill that only comes from a master wordsmith he worked up a series of vivid pictures as he...
