TED
What could be more Brighton than TEDx and cupcakes? Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/TEDxBrighton-cupcakes-1.jpg] Friday, as anyone who follows me on Twitter will be aware, was TEDxBrighton [http://www.tedxbrighton.com]. It’s my second TEDx event (the first was TEDxTuttle [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=tedxtuttle&
TEDxBrighton: new site, new theme Paid Members Public
[](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/TEDxBrighton-site.png) One of the most satisfying aspects of my new, freelance working life is that I can give
TED's spinning beachball of death Paid Members Public
Interesting that the TED Talk format has now become so established that it’s capable both of subversion (as above) and [use for advertising](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/02/ted_talk_from_the_year_2023.html). The format is, in effect, the brand.
TED Talk from the year 2023 Paid Members Public
This is marvellous: It’s a piece of marketing for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Prometheus (a prequel, of sorts, to the Alien movies). I do hope that TED talks are this cool in 11 years…
Finding web simplicity where none exists Paid Members Public
Antony Mayfield succinctly captures what I’ve been feeling about people’s attitude to the internet over the last year or so: > The other problem we have is we fixate on platforms, like Facebook, Google or Twitter and use them as proxies for the complexity of the web. It
How TED Gave Away Content - and Won Paid Members Public
Fascinating talk outlining how letting go of their content allowed TED to grow as a business:
#TEDxTuttle : Maggie Philbin & Tomorrow's World Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/maggiephilbin.jpg] Ah, [Maggie Philbin](http://twitter.com/MaggiePhilbin). My inner 10 year old is just *dying* right now. She’s kicking off the [TEDxTuttle](http://tedxtuttle.com/) event with a series of clips from *Tomorrow’s World*, to
Le Web 3 '07: Social Media versus Anti-social Media Paid Members Public
There were a couple of interesting, but ill-attended talks yesterday before lunch, which I wanted to draw together. June Cohen [http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/13] of the TED Conference [http://www.ted.com/talks?gclid=CKeB5LjIopACFRRSZwodakfhqw] made some interesting points about media, and in particular,
