Lee Clow - TEDxChapmanU - Creating Icons

Lee Clow shares his thoughts on what makes a genius, icon, and maverick and provides
great insight into how intensity, passion, and desire led him to the successful career 
he has today. He touches on his working relationship with Steve Jobs and how the 
experience impacted his life.

Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers 
a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

TED - Augmented Reality Maps

Amazing development here! Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon,

and the co-creator of Photosynth, which you may remember being showcased on TED in 2007. Again he delivers some

WOW to the people attending TED in Long Beach, California recently!

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

A refreshing look at perception from an ad man in this new TED talk.
The sign off points are great to bare in mind and take forth...

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Stefan Sagmeister - 7 year itch

I was lucky enough to hear Sagmeister talk at Offf 09, last May in Portugal. Although he is one of those speakers

who seems to be at all the conferences, the way he articulates his presentations and the simplicity of the themes

are always really impactful and memorable. A must see speaker!

In this new Ted talk above, he talks about the break he takes every 7 years from commercial work and puts a lot of

great rational behind it. I had a similar break for 6 months in 2003, really beneficial... hhhmmm roughly 7 years ago ;-)

WUW SIXTHSENCE - The Future, Coming Soon!

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or

some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about what is facing us. That information helps

us make decisions and chose the right actions to take in a situation. But arguably the most useful information that

can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information

and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online.

Moreover, Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. 'WUW' attempts to free information

from its confines and releases it into the world, seamlessly integrating it with the physical world.

More information here...

Our behaviour and how we interact in the world around us is changing everyday, if you like this type of thing also check this...

DAN GILBERT - Exploring The Frontiers Of Happiness

My first post of the year from TED. An interesting talk/presentation from Dan Gilbert, well worth watching all the way

through if you've got the time. Some focus on why people buy things and errors in value, comparing with the past...

or possible. He touches on the emotion level of buying into things without saying it which I feel is missing, but a guy

in the audience brings it up. Stand out quote...

''What space is to size, time is to value'' - Plato

KILLING CREATIVITY - True Words!

Sir Ken Robinson talks at TED about creativity in the educational system, how wrong it is...

and how it should be in the future, amongst other things.

True words in this very inspirational clip, he can even do stand-up comedy!