Archives for July, 2010
by Jeffrey Mann | July 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
Thank you to those who sent good wishes. I feel like my 6 minute TED University lecture went pretty well. It was extremely intimidating though. The speakers before me included a report on scientists in the Antarctic drilling thousands of years into the past to get ice cores that help us understand climate change, an [...]
Category: TED Global Tags: stochastic, TED, TED Global, The 99
by Jeffrey Mann | July 12, 2010 | 3 Comments
I arrived in Oxford, UK today for the TED Global conference have been looking forward to this specifically for almost a year, and generally since I first heard about from friends who went to one one of the first TED (technology, education, design) conferences organized by Richard Saul Wurman. The conference’s influence has grown enormously [...]
Category: being an analyst europe Events social software TED Global Tags: conferences, optimism, TED, TED Global
by Jeffrey Mann | July 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
Holland 0 – Uruguay 0I have lived in Europe for over 25 years, so I know that I am supposed to be excited by football (the round ball kind). But sports generally don’t interest me very much. I can however generate some interest in the World Cup, mostly because it would take too much work [...]
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