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Comedian Maz Jobrani at TED

Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American? Maz is one of my favorite comedians. Found him on the The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour (iTunes Link) tour and have purchased his performances on iTunes (iTunes Link). So glad to see him perform at a TED event.

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Freakonomics the movie

The movie everyone should have been waiting to see….on your computer before at the cinemas. In an unusual move Freakonomics the Movie is coming to iTunes first on September 3rd and then to a theater on October 1. Since I read this book (review) Tags: SUPERFreakonomics, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, Economics, datasets, innovation, energy, population, poverty, [...]

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My latest read – Remix

Regrettably the Vancouver Olympics interrupted my reading pattern and its been a slow recovery.  I blogged about this book as soon as I learned it was in production back in August.  Yikes! I have been following Larry Lessig’s work on copyright and our digital culture for some time, reading his positions online, previous books and keynote [...]

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Transforming how we experience imaging

Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.  Check out how this technology will change our approach to imaging. Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seadragon, Photosynth, design, TED, [...]

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Visualization changes everything

Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends

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My latest read: Outliers: The Story of Success

I’m not sure why it took so long to read Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book Outliers: The Story of Success but I’m sure glad its just as enjoyable as his books The Tipping Point and Blink. As defined scientifically Outliers is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data.  Gladwell not only [...]

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My favorite OS for kids

Sugar is a great little OS for little learners around the world.  Its the way an OS and laptop should be introduced to children.  Engineered for Children…what a concept. Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, Amazon, XO, open source, globalization, trends

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On my reading list

Looking forward to Larry Lessig’s new bookRemix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Larry has documented how the music and movie industries are turning students into criminals because they use cheap software, the internet and their creativity.  His presentation at TED hilights the core principals of his upcoming book. The power and impact of [...]

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Whats new is now old

Microsoft’s Photosynth was a hit at TED last year and looked to be really promising regardless of running only on XP SP2 and Vista (shame on you Microsoft) but the same team along with the University of Washington has moved forward with new photo, video and VR technologies: This should be a very interesting mashup of [...]

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50 million viewers cannot be wrong

TED is amazing don’t you think?

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