by JAK | Apr 15, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures, TED
The other week I was dropping a neighbours kid home from an after school programme. He asked me why my car wasn’t a flash new one. I wanted to say that I’m trying to reduce the size of my carbon footprint and I’m hoping this is the last petrol...
by JAK | Feb 9, 2009 | TED
While the TED 09 Conference was on we featured Twitter feeds from two of the attendees as a stream of updates in the sidebar. Now the conference is over we have taken down the live feeds but included snapshots of some of those comments down below. Remo from Sydney who...
by JAK | Feb 3, 2009 | big ideas, idealog, TED
It’s true I’m a TEDhead and if we’ve met it would be unusual if I didn’t mention the TED conference videos at some point. One of the incredible delights of the today is that even though we read less; if we can find time to watch an 18 minute...
by JAK | Jan 23, 2009 | general business, TED
Christmas is holiday time for many of us in the Southern hemisphere. Sun, sand, surf, swimming – you get the idea. It also seems that when we get a chance to have more than a week away from our office and/or jobs a much higher percentage of us rethink our jobs....
by JAK | Nov 26, 2008 | industry futures, online marketing, TED
Marshall McLuhan once said that “The old medium is always the content of the new medium.” He was talking about the way that movies were being morphed into TV but that idea is more than relevant now with all kinds of media being filtered through millions of...
by JAK | Jul 18, 2008 | culture, music, TED
When I was 11, I had just the most fantastic music teacher. For the next 7 years we worked on all types of music together, one on one, in group classes, in a wind symphonia and also in the school orchestra. Later on we did music tours with a 70 piece orchestra made...
