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Steven Johnson: The Web and the city

2008-10-12T02:40:29Z

www.ted.com Outside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on.

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John Markoff: Why newspapers still matter

2008-10-12T02:40:29Z

www.ted.com At the EG conference, John Markoff talks about why newspapers still matter -- even in the days of RSS. He gives an inside look at editorial process at the New York Times, and talks about some of his tech stories that should have been front-page news.

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Community of Spirit, Part One

2008-10-12T02:29:05Z

An ambitious project of the Philosophy and Communication Arts Departments of Molloy College in Rocville Centre. The fifth in a five part series of interviews highlighting community activism for social justice on Long Island, this episode focuses on mentoring.

This program was part of a cross-registered course on social justice and mass communication. Dr. Michael Russo's philosophy class did the pre-production work (identifying topics, finding "movers and shakers" on social justice on Long Island, and coming up with questions for the panelists) and my "TV 3" class did the actual production work (shooting "B-roll" video, creating computer graphics, producing opening and closing credit packages, and the actual in-studio shooting).

I am aware of no other college or university on Long Island or the NY area to have undertaken such an ambitious project.

I am proud of the students who took part in this.

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Saving Endangered Languages with the Rosetta Project

2008-07-11T14:40:18Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

JD Ross Leahy, Archive Manager for the Rosetta Project, explains the importance of preserving languages and the implications of language loss.

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A NetSquared panel featuring speakers from Social Actions, Your Mapper and Rosetta Project. This event was moderated by John Hoffman of ZeroDivide.

This year's NetSquared Conference, a Mashup Challenge, brings together a unique mix of people from the public and private sectors to develop and release Mashups designed to provide deeper insight into the social issues affecting communities around the globe.

JD Ross Leahy is the Rosetta Project Archive Manager. He holds a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Oregon.

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David Macaulay: All roads lead to Rome Antics

2008-06-15T09:35:34Z

www.ted.com Despite a love and fascination for Rome dating to his days as an architecture student, David Macaulay found the path to his book Rome Antics took some unusual (and frustrating) turns. Through failed pop-up designs, scribbled out title possibilities, surreal sketchbook pages (think "Piranesi meets Escher"), and rambling story lines, Macaulay details each step of his winding journey towards completion of his illustrated homage to the city.

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Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration

2008-06-15T09:35:32Z

www.ted.com Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.

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Jan Chipchase: Our cell phones, ourselves

2008-07-10T08:36:28Z

www.ted.com Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he's made some unexpected discoveries: about the novel ways illiterate people interface with their cellphones, or the role the cellphone can sometimes play in commerce, or the deep emotional bonds we all seem to share with our phones. And watch for his surefire trick to keep you from misplacing your keys.

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Fr. Patrick Peyton Interviews Marshall McLuhan, part 3

2008-10-12T02:29:05Z

...some time in the 1970's, on Fr. Patrick ("the rosary priest") Peyton's television show, "Family Theatre."

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Fr. Patrick Peyton Interviews Marshall McLuhan, part 1

2008-10-12T02:29:05Z

...some time in the 1970's, on Fr. Patrick ("the rosary priest") Peyton's television show, "Family Theatre."

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Fr. Patrick Peyton Interviews Marshall McLuhan, part 2

2008-10-12T02:29:05Z

...some time in the 1970's, on Fr. Patrick ("the rosary priest") Peyton's television show, "Family Theatre."

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John Gray - Are Men Poor Listeners?

2008-06-09T15:36:10Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

John Gray, bestselling author of "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," argues that differences between men's and women's brains lead to men being viewed as poor listeners.

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John Gray talks about Why Mars and Venus Collide.

The author who raised many provocative questions about male-female relations with his book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, returns to familiar territory. He suggests ideas to help couples cope with everyday stress and keep their love strong - Book Passage

John Gray, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of communication and relationships. The author of fifteen books, he has been conducting personal-growth seminars for more than thirty years and writes "Mars Venus Advice," a weekly syndicated column that has appeared in more than one hundred media outlets, including Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, and the Detroit Free Press.

He also has a weekly Internet broadcast with over two million listeners at Marsvenus.com. Gray has been a contributing editor at Redbook and a contributor to ivillage.com, Brides, and Divorce magazines. He lives with his wife and three children in Northern California.

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John Gray - Do Men and Women Deal with Stress Differently?

2008-06-10T21:31:09Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

John Gray, bestselling author of "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," argues that differences between men's and women's brains lead women to cope with stress differently than men.

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John Gray talks about Why Mars and Venus Collide.

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Chip Heath - Making Ideas "Stick"

2008-06-07T09:35:00Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Stanford University business professor Chip Heath stresses the importance of simplicity to effectively conveying an idea.

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Chip Heath, co-author of "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die," talks about what makes certain ideas "naturally sticky."

Chip Heath is a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His research examines why certain ideas - ranging from urban legends to folk medical cures, from Chicken Soup for the Soul stories to business strategy myths - survive and prosper in the social marketplace of ideas. These "naturally sticky" ideas spread without external help in the form of marketing dollars, PR assistance, or the attention of leaders.

A few years back Chip designed a course, now a popular elective at Stanford, that asked whether it would be possible to use the principles of naturally sticky ideas to design messages that would be more effective. That course, "How to Make Ideas Stick," has now been taught to hundreds of students including managers, teachers, doctors, journalists, venture capitalists, product designers, and film producers.

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Youtube: Should Corporations Control Online Communication

2008-10-12T02:33:59Z

-See the article that goes with this video at: www.coanews.org

Large corporations own many of the most popular participatory media websites on the Internet. We're talking about spaces that could end up becoming one of the most important tools to reinvigorate our democracy. What makes us so willing to trust corporations with online participatory media?

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