HT: to Ethan Zuckerman for writing about TED and two other conferences he attends, Pop!Tech and LIFT which are also posting their presentations online for the world to watch. I never knew about these two conferences before but am now sharing ideas from both of them (and TED) with friends, family and colleagues. […]
Entries from November 2007
More Conferences, More Online Material, More Discussion for Thought
April 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: New Media · Video · Online Community · Social Networking · news and entertainment · Politics and News
TED Talks Online: Enlightening Thoughts
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
If you want to tap into some serious thought power check out TED: Ideas Worth Spreading.
What is TED?
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together […]
Tags: Online Community · New Media · Video · TED · Global Warming · Social Networking · Tech · US · International · Web 2.0 · Politics and News
Friedman on Obama–The Positive Points of a New Candidate
April 18th, 2007 · No Comments
I have not donated money or selected a candidate to back, but I have been examining the field and believe I know what we need and what I deem as high qualifiers in the next U.S. presidential election and what ranks very high in my opinion is a president that can return hope to the […]
Tags: Politics and News
Corruption Abounds in Bush Administration Appointees Old and New
April 17th, 2007 · No Comments
There is a nice editorial in today’s WaPo by, Eugene Robinson: Are They Serious?, I say nice because of his to the point description of recent corruption/obstruction of justice and just plain wrong behavior by 3 Bush Administration appointees: Karl Rove–oops that was a delete key, Alberto Gonzales–people were fired that I said to be […]
Tags: US · Politics and News
Immigration Policy Debate in The U.S.–Don’t Forget the People
April 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Looking the Other Way on Immigrants in today’s WaPo highlights how some local communities are creating local Bills of Rights for immigrants.
In the aftermath of a series of raids in 2004, the town council in this historic borough of 5,300 — transformed in recent years by an influx of at least 1,300 Latin Americans — […]
Tags: International · US · Politics and News
Think Green: A New Wiki on Environmental Policy and Ideas
April 9th, 2007 · No Comments
A few weekends ago I started Think Green, a wiki, to collect and share information on environmental issues and policies such as tax incentives for businesses and individuals for going green. I am also hoping you will help me create a collection of all green blogger links and news. I need your help […]
Tags: Carbon Emissions · Non-profit tech · Online Community · New Media · Global Warming · Climate Change · DC · environment · Web 2.0 · Social Networking · Tech
NTC2007: Closing Thoughts on the Conference
April 8th, 2007 · No Comments
During the last day of the conference I attended a session that covered microformats for Web coding behavior. This seems like an interesting use of code and definitely worth keeping an eye on, if you want to play with it now the recommendation was made to try it on the Contact page of your […]
Tags: Non-profit tech · 07NTC · Social Networking · Web 2.0 · US · International · Tech
