18 Videos from this years conference have been posted live. Always interesting lectures! Here is a break down of the speakers.
Stumbled upon Cristobal Palma Photography the other day. Immense collection of international architectural photography form the following architects:
Tagged Architecture
Check them out the on the newyorker website or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes 
I’ll post some commentary on individual lectures as i watch them.
Here is a summary of the speakers from the website…
- REINVENTING INVENTION
- Malcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- DECONSTRUCTING THE AIRPORT
- Paco Underhill talks with Malcolm Gladwell about how to remake air travel for the twenty-first century.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- THE POLITICS OF GLAMOUR
- Francesco Vezzoli talks with Michael Specter about cinema, kitsch, celebrity, and democracy.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- HUMANITARIAN ENGINEERING
- Amy Smith talks with Rebecca Mead about applying new technology in the developing world.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- THE FOREVER CAMPAIGN
- Rahm Emanuel talks to Ryan Lizza about the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton’s future, and what the first hundred days of the Obama Administration might look like.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- 23 AND YOU
- Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki talk with Michael Specter on genetics.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- THE GREEN CITY
- San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom talks with Dana Goodyear on what it means to be green in politics and in the world.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- A MORE PERFECT UNION
- James Surowiecki discusses the future of the labor movement with Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE
- Jane Mayer talks with Eric Haseltine, the former chief technology officer of the U.S. intelligence community.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- NEUROBOTICS
- Yoky Matsuoka, the director of the neurobotics laboratory at the University of Washington, discusses how brain signals can control prosthetic limbs, and other advances in the hybrid field of neuroscience and robotics.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- MAKING MUSICALS ROCK
- Duncan Sheik talks with Susan Morrison about “Spring Awakening” and reinventing the American musical.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- CONSTRUCTING CULTURE
- David Adjaye talks with Thelma Golden about architecture in contemporary culture and what buildings can be in the twenty-first century.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
- PLAYING WITH FIRE
- Bill Buford talks with the chefs David Chang, Daniel Humm, and Marc Taxiera about their influences and the future of the culinary world.
- WATCH THIS VIDEO
Internet Trends - Visually overlaid on Subway Maps. Good Stuff. I especially like the Forcast and Brand Experience overlays.
From a great group over at Information Architects, Japan.
Web Trend Map 2008
Web Trend Map 2007
iA Japan Predictions
2008
2007
Touching piece on 60 minutes last night. Watching hundreds of people converge on a convention center for basic health care needs (eye glasses, dentistry, checkups) was incredibly sobering. The arguments for and against universal healthcare have merits on both sides, but there must be a better way to provide healthcare than this. US citizens need options other than the emergency room, which would probably bankrupt most lower income citizens.
Take a look for yourself…
Tagged Economics, Healthcare, TVI am doing some research and compiling a comprehensive list of online ad networks. Here is my list thus far.
Yahoo! - Right Media - Blue Lithium - Yahoo! Search Marketing Services (code name panama)
Microsoft - Drive PM - Microsoft Ad Center
quadrantONE - Newspaper conglomerate (The New York Times Co., Gannett Co., Tribune Co. and Hearst Corp)
More to come…
The Deck - Creative Centric Network
Mobile…
Tagged Advertising
I am very excited that “my favorite conference that I have no chance of getting tickets to” is coming to my home town of Long Beach, CA. Any one who might have some secret techniques to getting an invite, I am open to just about anything. Otherwise, i will continue trying to create an idea to change the world…
Here are the details…
Tagged ConferencesTED2009 Logistics
DatesFebruary 3 - 7, 2009
TimeTED University begins 10 am, Wed Feb 4First TED Session begins 1:30 pm, Wed Feb 4Final TED Session ends 1 pm, Sat Feb 7, with an optional beach party to follow
LocationLong Beach Convention and Entertainment Center 300 East Ocean BoulevardLong Beach, CA 90802
My youngest sister is attending UCLA as a freshman this year, she is enrolled in a media arts class and passed along an interesting anecdote.
The Writers of ABC’s October Road stopped by to do a Q&A with the class and entered into a discussion about ratings and how shows get picked up and grow. The show is targeted to the youth, probably with a high school/college target demographic. My smarty pants sister asked a question if viewers of the show online through ABC’s Streaming Video Viewer are counted in the ratings. Short answer no, but that is not the interesting part. They surveyed the class about where the students where watching prime time TV episodes.
My sister estimates 10% actually watch shows on a TV, with the remaining 90% viewing them online. When i though about it, makes perfect sense. Underclass college students in the dorms, have no room for a TV and no budget for a DVR. They all have laptops which has been converted into a hybrid computer/TV for them.
I am sure as the students grow, they will get aTV and DVR like the rest of us, but what long term effect will this immersion in watching episodic content online have? At the least the psychological barrier of the set top box is broken, and this age group will have a different paradigm to operate in.
Secondly, the fact that viewing this content is now 100% legal and sponsored by the networks seems like a big deal to me. In the past, getting tv shows online was a exercise in geeky piracy, but with the advent of these network sponsored full episode viewers, it is just so easy that the barriers are gone.
Here is a review of the network TV offerings as of late 2007.
Tagged TVI have been tasked with doing some trend analysis of our industry recently. JLOOP operates in the boutique web development space, where our services cover a broad spectrum of digitally related topics. From online strategy, design and development to seo, and everything in between. Trying to do some googling to for information on industry trends, it became quickly apparent that search terms like “small business + web development trends” were not cutting it, returning tons of garbage.
It dawned on me, that my google reader is filled with rss feeds from industry blogs that i have added over the last few years, and doing simple search for terms like “trends” returned very valuable and relevant information from a wide variety of sources. Have a created a custom search tool for my self that i have been feeding resources that i value over the years, seems so.
Example, a quick search on the term “trends” via google reader, quickly lead me to the 2008 Digital Outlook Report, a 167 page report from Avenue A Razorfish. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki’s excellent blog.
Finding this via a google web search would have been down right impossible, and via a blog search on technorati or google blog search would have been difficult. So far, my experience searching my rss feeds has been an excellent tool.