Look for a Laughing Squid cameo in Clay’s talk at around the 8:22 mark, where you’ll see that on this blog we only focus on the really important stuff in life.
http://youtu.be/9h2dF-IsH0I Internet writer and professor Clay Shirky recently presented Defend Our Freedom To Share or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea, a fascinating 12-minute TED Talk that is "a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume". The speech was recorded at the…
Clay Shirky gave a really great keynote talk about "Cognitive Surplus" last week at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008. Here's a transcript of his talk. Clay's latest book is "Here Comes Everybody", about organizing without organizations.
http://youtu.be/j3fSjvr_CZ8 Jed Oelbaum and Oliver Noble have created "Long Distance Operator," a remix that illustrates the evolution of communications technologies using samples of iconic sounds. The song travels from the early days of pigeons and typewriters to pagers, cellphones, and dial-up internet and finally to smartphones and the internet as…
Mobile design agency Fueled has created a short animation that details the evolution of cellphones over the past forty years from the DynaTAC to the iPhone. Starting with the DynaTAC in 1974 and ending with a side-by-side comparison between the iPhone 5s and the Galaxy Note, Fueled's designers and animators…
Several videos have been making the rounds on YouTube showing people popping popcorn with their cellphones. Hoax or the real thing, what do you think? UPDATE 1: Snopes has debunked the idea of cooking an egg/popcorn with cellphones. UPDATE 2: It turns out it was a viral video campaign by…
Saturday Night Live writer Will Stephen gave a talk at TEDxNewYork explaining how to sound smart during a TED talk, even when you have nothing to say. In a hilarious talk capping off a day of new ideas at TEDxNewYork, professional funny person Will Stephen shows foolproof presentation skills to…
