Blog Elektroniker
By Tim Leberecht - March 7, 2010
TED conferences, you might think, are happy affairs. You get up early, meet the most fascinating people, listen to jaw-dropping talks (each followed by a standing ovation), have deep conversations, and party until dawn – and all of that for four days in a row, safely remote from your usual daily routine. The reality, however, is more complicated. The event is a physical and mental stress test, an emotional rollercoaster ride that challenges you with constant over-stimulation, extreme cross-pollination, and tidal waves of acceptance and rejection as you navigate the social networks in the conference’s “social spaces.” To slightly paraphrase Heidi Klum: “With one group you’re in, with the next group you’re out.” And yet you will never hear anyone who was lucky enough to attend TED come back and not rave about their experience. Why is that? Daniel Kahneman, the mastermind of Behavioral Economics, provided the answer – at TED2010: TEDsters are happy because they expect to be happy. Let me explain, or rather, let Daniel Kahneman explain.
Blog frogs on the road
By Various frogs - February 12, 2010
A roundup of images, articles, and tweets from the stage in Long Beach.
TED speaker Stewart Brand. TED2010, February 9-13, 2010, Long Beach, CA. Credit: TED / Marla Aufmuth
Reason, Provocaton, Invention, and Breakthroughs: Highlights from the bloggosphere for Thursday, February 11
Brainpicklings Complete Day Two Roundup: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/02/12/ted-2010-highlights-2/
BusinessWeek’s Helen Walters Interviews this year’s TED Fellows http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/
BoingBoing “Shooting Mosquitos out of the sky with lasers”
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/11/highlights-from-ted-1.html
Blog frogs on the road
By Pete Matthews - November 30, 2009
The pre-conference circular stated, "Think of TEDxAmsterdam as a theatre performance." That's exactly what it was; a day full of oration, music and emotion.
Blog Elektroniker
By Tim Leberecht - November 9, 2009
TED India just ended, and the TED team is already off to the next exhilarating project. On November 12, 2009, TED and others will be unveiling the Charter for Compassion, a document about the core shared values and moral code of every world religion, the “Golden Rule.” The Charter is the result of 2008 TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong’s “wish” (if you haven’t read Armstrong’s latest book, The Case for God, I highly recommend it – even, or especially, if you consider yourself an atheist and usually side with Richard Dawkins et al).
Blog Elektroniker
By Tim Leberecht - October 2, 2009
TED just launched its first-ever short film (30 sec to 3 mins) contest - with winners to be shown at TEDIndia this November. The TED Blog is taking the opportunity to feature some of the short films that played live at the conference in recent years.
Blog TEDGlobal
By Various frogs - September 23, 2009
TED Curator Chris Anderson – who had 844,821…wait 844,833 followers the last time we looked – tweeted about it yesterday, and we’re thrilled that the word is now out about the new special TEDGlobal edition of our design mind magazine, “The Substance of Things Not Seen."
We officially unveiled the new issue on Monday with an intimate TED Salon ("More Substance of Things Not Seen") with 120 TEDsters and friends at the Unicorn Theater in London. Hosted by Bruno Giussani, TED’s European director, and Sam Martin, editor-in-chief of design mind, the evening featured three TED Talks.
Blog TEDGlobal
By Various frogs - September 21, 2009
Yep, today is the big day, and we’re thrilled to present our most ambitious and heftiest design mind magazine so far – and a very special one indeed. The new issue is devoted exclusively to the TEDGlobal 2009 conference (the twin conference of the annual TED conference in Long Beach) that took place this past July in Oxford, England, with the theme “The Substance of Things Not Seen.”
It is the first time a publication was invited to fully cover a TED conference: In collaboration with the TEDGlobal speakers and attendees, frog’s designers, technologists, and writers produced art, essays, and interviews that translate the conference’s theme into a rich magazine, trying to make visible “The Substance of Things Not Seen.”
Blog Elektroniker
By Tim Leberecht - September 19, 2009
Several frogs are in London this week to unveil the special TEDGlobal issue of our design mind magazine in a very special TED Salon on Monday, with the title "More Substance of Things Not Seen." The event will be co-hosted by frog and TED, and moderated by Sam Martin, editor-in-chief of design mind, and Bruno Giussani, European director of TED. More about that soon.
It comes in handy for the frog delegation that this is also the first week of the magnanimous London Design Festival, an eclectic assembly of design-related programs, exhibitions, and parties all over town.
Blog TEDGlobal
By Various frogs - July 28, 2009
The last speaker at TEDGlobal, Franciscan monk Brother Paulus Terwitte, described how at the previous night’s party he was having a conversation with another TED attendee that was suddenly interrupted when the other person’s cell phone rang, upon which he excused himself and left. Brother Paulus waited for a few minutes, “but he never came back.”
Blog TEDGlobal
By Various frogs - July 27, 2009
The frog team just returned from the TEDGlobal 2009 conference in Oxford, UK, and it was an exhaustively inspiring week. TED is like a boot camp for ideas: You’re seriously sleep-deprived, constantly over-stimulated, and both humbled and mesmerized by remarkable attendees who all share a belief that “the glass is half-full” (even in the UK…).
