you should be able to pick it up in borders or the like.

Minor celebrities moving their chubby little carbon footprints around the world to talk evil and the environment? In print?

No thanks.

Cheers!

wow dberlow, where did that come from ?

TED offers some amazing minds the chance to present, compare and synthesize views on everything from the future of computing in art and design to social justice and the politics of technological superiority.

it's heavily blogged and many of the presentations can be viewed online.
you can start at the boingboing coverage and trace the links from there.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/29/ted-2008-paul-stamet.html

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&domains=boingboing.net&si...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=TED+presentations&btnG=Google+Search

Dr. Brian Cox got a standing ovation after his talk about Nuclear Power stuff and he had to have a talk backstage with Cameron Diaz and Bob Geldof.

And I want to see if they used my shot of Dr. Brian without asking to use it since they nicked it off the website.

Paul Stamets is such a great guy. I think he is a fantastic example of how to meld science, terroire, futurism, environmentalism and commerce in a maturing culture like the US.

Dr. Brian Cox got a standing ovation after his talk about Nuclear Power stuff and he had to have a talk backstage with Cameron Diaz and Bob Geldof.

What, as punishment?

he had to have

sounds compulsory, must have been

" compare and synthesize "
lol, exactly.

"it’s heavily blogged and many of the presentations can be viewed online."
Then why should anyone go, incl. the presenters?

You are missing the truth, inconvienient as it may seem. This being the whle point o the thread...
"...I want to see if they used my shot of Dr. Brian without asking..." :-)

To court! (and give the money to the Gates Foundation)

Cheers!

'To court! (and give the money to the Gates Foundation)'

nobody usually like to pay the photography for their copyrighted work and their expensive lights, lenses and cameras. Magazines are thieves.

dberlow: what's yr complaint exactly ? too many smart people in one place ?

>> ” compare and synthesize “ lol, exactly.

why is that funny ?

>>“it’s heavily blogged and many of the presentations can be viewed online.”
>>Then why should anyone go, incl. the presenters?

duh. networking and realtime experience, among other reasons.
ever been ? it's great. priceless contacts.

>>You are missing the truth, inconvienient as it may seem.
>>This being the whle point o the thread...
>>“...I want to see if they used my shot of Dr. Brian without asking...” :-)

please enlighten us, oh wise one. that complaint is directed at WIRED, not at TED.

>>To court! (and give the money to the Gates Foundation)

whatever.

>>Cheers!

exactly.

Well back to the question.

Does anyone have a WIRED subscription? I can't find it in London. I've been to Borders, Books Etc, Waterstones, WH Smith, and they only have WIRE which is a UK mag.

ta

I wonder if all the speakers walked from the airport to the conference?

http://spacing.ca/wire/?p=1372

In print?

Neither print not digital are sustainable in their present forms.
Writing in sand is probably our best bet.

or rock if you have a really big idea

smoke signals !

No. There is at least one article online, but nothing in the Mar. 2008 print issue. Maybe the April issue?

There are TED links on UnBeige.

"why is that funny ?"
I won a 1968 Mustang in buzz-word bingo, with that phrase.

I'm sorry to leap out of the forum at anyone's opinion, but I am of the opinion that there is a whole kind of conference, and this is not new, that I find, and have found, to be deeply superficial, narrowly hypocritical... and broadly hilarious. But, I've mostly resisted.

Author Paul Stamets, bless his heart, "...mushrooms can save the world", not unless they can learn to grow in sea water, not to mention that they're breathing my air. Undersea explorer Robert Ballard, brilliant guy, lots of people Do Explore the Oceans, stop taking pictures, haul up some of them battleships, lower sea level, make reefs. Todd Machover, genius, is gonna make sure that no rich parent will survive, and no rich child will be left behind, by Star Search. And I don't mean to 'peck' at you but Joshua Klein master of machines, why is he building a vending machine for crows to deposit coins, for peanuts...some future web model?

"Writing in sand is probably our best bet."
Sand? For one to impress such an audience, one'd need to design and 'draw' a new font, liiive, in ones own blood.
Maybe next year.

Cheers!

Author Paul Stamets, bless his heart, “...mushrooms can save the world”, not unless they can learn to grow in sea water, not to mention that they’re breathing my air.

An interesting note on Mycelium is that several types work symbiotically with the roots of trees and provide nutrients that fertilize the trees. It is a very important issue with forestation and the paper industry because if the mycelium can be kept alive it reduces or eliminates the fertilization needs for tree farming. So David, the mushrooms are helping to make the air you breathe and are probably a huge factor in keeping a steady supply of breathable air.

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/03/exclusive-photo.html

How funny is this!?

WIRED nicked (L), TED used (R)....I guess anything on the net is public domain.. Even with a visible watermark and an embedded Digimarc.....

dberlow: so unless someone's presentation is the flawless be-all and end-all of their area of interest they should say nothing ? you must be kidding. it's called research and exploration. this is how ideas germinate, expand, cross-pollinate, fertilize, inspire, and evolve. it's an organic process and conferences can provide a concentrated dose of exposure, contacts, and inspiration.

sorry none of them are good enough for you. perhaps next year we should all just ask you for your perspective on these topics ?

I've subscribed to the Ted podcast feed on iTunes since it became available. There's some great stuff on there and there's some stuff that I just don't find interesting.

David

JB, Mycelium can save the world then, which is different from mushrooms saving the world.

Ch:" perhaps next year we should all just ask you for your perspective on these topics ?"
Topic, not topics. It will not have changed. My perspective will remain that the typical digital 'see me' circus is not my thing. :)

Cheers!

um.... well, breakfast with geniuses is always a treat. face time. interaction, conversation, questions & ideas, moments of inspired argument, all that human hello! eye contact talking about seriously interesting things which sometime lead to projects jobs or strategies.

from the detachment of my lone computer the typophile comes close.
great minds at work. humbling and nutritious.

JB, Mycelium can save the world then, which is different from mushrooms saving the world.

Anything saving the world is clearly hyperbole, but what I did not clarify is that mycelial mats are the root structure of the mushroom. The mats are the worlds largest organisms, and their fruit, so to speak, is the mushroom.

just fyi : here's one of those useless, trendy, minor celebrities
presenting something really boring and inconvenient :

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129.

I don't think this person is a useless or trendy, just slow and not likely to finish. He is not a miinor celebrity, I'll give him that. My jaw remained firmly raised. The really interesting thing in this video, besides the crap type, was the number of times, the presenter says, "what if". Like, what if "everybody" put all kinds of text data and metrics matching data into all their photos, and then gave them away for free! Or, what if everybody had enough memory and bandwidth to browse a glabobyte of data on their computer in ten seconds...What if Operating systems were as scaleable as the fonts and images we've been supplying for nearly three decades, WOW!

What'a the big deal to "be there" for something that's not possible for years?

Cheers!