"If I Had a Daughter"

This TED Talk, filmed in March 2011, seems particularly timely for Mother's Day.



The speaker is Sarah Kay. She is the founder and co-director of Project V.O.I.C.E., a group dedicated to using spoken word as an inspirational tool. Her website is located at http://www.kaysarahsera.com.

Sarah Kay: If I Should Have a Daughter...

This TED Talk, filmed in March 2011, seems particularly timely for Mother's Day.

TED Talk on Twitter

In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas driving that growth came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves.

Or Could This Be in Your Future?

Thanks to Dave Sherman for the comment he left on my past post. If you follow the link, it will take you to a post on Dave's blog where he had actually posted the same video. In that post, however, Dave also included a TED Talk video that takes things to a whole new level. I have included the TED Talk below.



If you would like to read Dave's commentary, go to the post on his blog.

Institution Versus Collaboration

This video of Clay Shirky is from 2005. It is about 20 minutes long. He shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. The takeaways for me were:

1. The explanation of how he put together part of his presentation by using the "tagging" feature of Flickr to allow him to select photos from many photographers. For those unfamiliar with how "tagging" works on Flickr, blogs, Delicious, etc., Shirky's talk shows us why they are important.
2. The blogging revolution and how it is reshaping journalism.
3. This quote from his talk, "If you want to know what technology is going to change the world, don't pay attention to 13-year-old boys. Pay attention to young mothers. Because they have got not an ounce of support for technology that doesn't materially make their lives better."