It's All Politics

TED's 'Explicitely Partisan' Talk, Briefly Barred From Its Site, Now Everywhere()  

May 18, 2012 A TED Talk challenging conventional wisdom that rich entrepreneurs are the number one job creators is now available for public viewing, after TED organizers originally kept the video private because it was too "explicitly partisan."

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The Power Of Crowds()  

The Power Of Crowds.

May 18, 2012 Technology-enabled collaboration draws us closer, makes us smarter and allows us to innovate using the wisdom of a crowd. A new wave of collaborative consumption is transforming consumerism and the rules of engagement. What's the true potential of crowdsourcing?

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TED Radio Hour

Can Crowds Celebrate As A Form Of Protest?()  

May 18, 2012 When Anders Behring Breivik admitted to killing 77 people in Norway in 2011, he claimed that a children's song was "brainwashing" the country's youth. Here's how 40,000 Norwegians reclaimed it.

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On TED Radio HourPlaylist

TED Radio Hour

Clay Shirky: How Can Social Media Make History? ()  

"Historically, we have overestimated the value of access to information, and we have always underestimated the value of access to each other." — Clay Shirky

May 18, 2012 People across the globe are turning to social media to connect with each other in new ways. Clay Shirky shows how our increasingly interconnected world is transforming news and politics as well as our roles as citizens.

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The Two-Way

'Information' To 'Knowledge Agent': Google Changes The Way It Does Search()  

What a search result may look at on Google now.

May 16, 2012 Besides presenting relevant links, Google will now provide information about your searches. Currently, Google said its engine knows 3.5 billion facts.

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All Tech Considered

'What Facebook Is Selling Is Us'()  

A worker sits in the Facebook office in Menlo Park, Calif. The amount of information Facebook learns about its users seems to have entranced Wall Street.

May 16, 2012 Facebook's initial public offering — $16 billion and counting — is shaping up to be one of the largest in history. The company and its investors are betting that the social media giant can learn enough from its users so it can target ads that will be worth big, big money.

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