by JAK | Jul 5, 2008 | crmthinking, culture, industry futures, TED
TED just released news (June 2008) that there have been more than 50 million downloads of their videos. Ashley Highfield of the BBC mentions that iPlayer has now had more than 75m video downloads (as at May 2008) so clearly we are moving into a new era of accelerated...
by JAK | Mar 25, 2008 | culture, TED
In the last post I mentioned that the TED prize broadcasts were going to be live so that anyone could see the video as it happened from the TED conference. There were 3 sessions plus a musical performance. It was great to get an idea of the conference in real time...
by JAK | Feb 28, 2008 | big ideas, culture, industry futures, TED
The latest TED conference starts this week and runs from 27th of Feb to Sat March1. This time presenters range from Craig Venter, through Bob Geldof , Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Isaac Mizrahi to economist Paul Collier and many, many others. On the Friday night for example...
by JAK | Sep 18, 2007 | big ideas, TED
One of the best blogs on media and publishing is called Trends in the Living Networks. It is written by Ross Dawson whose insights make a great deal of sense. Last week he wrote about six trends that will transform living online over the next years Those 6 trends are...
by JAK | Aug 7, 2007 | big ideas, development, TED
At school my daughter is a very excited member of the Enviro Explorers who aim to treasure the environment while many of us parents drive them to school in huge gas guzzling cars. How shortsighted is that? Incredibly it seems that despite 30 years of rising...
by JAK | Jul 3, 2007 | big ideas, idealog, TED
At the recent New Yorker conference, called “2012: Stories from the near Future” was a piece by Malcolm Gladwell on two ideas of Genius. The video link is here – but check the size – it is 27 minutes long (and my HD version is 350mb! – HD...
