Blog Pattern Language
By Sam Martin - July 15, 2011
Here's the third full day of the conference. Another solid group of speakers.
Blog Pattern Language
By Sam Martin - July 12, 2011
Pre-conference TEDGlobal is in the books, the first session is near, and after days of wondering what the “stuff” in this year’s Stuff of Life theme could mean, I may have a start. Thinking about stuff automatically includes thinking about things. And indeed we are fond of our stuff: computers, cars, Saturday jeans, running shoes, and whatever other objects you value. But the stuff of life is not only objects (and besides, you can’t have a four-day conference only about things). The Stuff of Life is actually the stuff in life—inspiration and disappointment, marriage and divorce, life and death.
Blog Pattern Language
By Sam Martin - November 7, 2010
The third TED Salon in London supported by frog.
In partnership with frog, a TED Salon took place in London earlier this week at the Unicorn Theatre, a cozy venue near the Tate Modern on the south side of the Thames. It was the third such event together, and this time 250 local TEDsters attended to hear 15 speakers talk in two sessions about a variety of subjects on the theme of “Re-Framing.” Master of ceremonies and TED’s European director Bruno Giussani explained the theme this way: “When films shift camera angles, they shift a scene… they literally reframe; that’s what we’re trying to do tonight… to look at things from a different perspective.” It was also the occasion to debut the special TEDGlobal edition of design mind, which covered the 2010 Oxford conference and the theme “And Now the Good News.”
Blog Pattern Language
By Sam Martin - July 20, 2009
This morning I was fortunate to go on a private tour of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University’s official biblioteque and one of the world’s greatest book depositories. There were eight people, including me on the tour, so it was truly an intimate and special look.
