by JAK | Jun 3, 2012 | culture, music, TEDx
Luke Thompson keeps popping up on my music radar. He seems to work with great videographers and the songs stay with me long after the sound is off. Look the Other Way is 4 years old but has an inventive video and a song that expands my world. Back in Auckland, New...
by JAK | May 27, 2012 | big ideas, TEDx
Yesterday I was at TEDxSydney live at the Carriageworks and it was a completely mind-blowing, epic, energising and surprisingly musical day. Unusually for me I left my twitter off and instead plugged straight into the equivalent of an 829 brain mega parrallel organic...
by JAK | May 23, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED, TEDx
It has been great looking at big data this week but mostly we are still stuck with dragging a mouse around a screen. That is another limit that needs to go. It would be great to be able to manipulate data on a screen in other more tactile ways. A giant pile of data...
by JAK | May 22, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED, TEDx
Finding great answers always starts with great questions – however in today’s world we are often overwhelmed by enormous amounts of data. If only we knew the “right questions” we would be so much closer to a better understanding of the world...
by JAK | May 7, 2012 | big ideas, music, TED, TEDx
Ever since Brian Sweeney and Remo Giuffre told me about TED back in the early 90’s or maybe before that (TED started in 1984) I have been a huge fan. Brians 7×7 events in NZ were inspired by TED and they still resonate even though today we have TEDxSydney,...
by JAK | Mar 20, 2012 | industry futures, TEDx
Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect. It is an overused technique in advertising and now it appears to have become an artform called “Copyright Math” by comic Rob Reid “a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment...
