Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphone users

Another bite sized but thought provoking talk courtesy of TED. In this 3 minute slot social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always-on social world — where the experience we’re having right now is less interesting than the story we’ll tell about it later.

A different way to think about creative genius

In this particular video the author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses.

A 3-minute story of mixed emoticons

Thanks largely to Instant Messaging and sms, emoticons have become part of the way many of us communicate and express our feelings. It’s changing the way people ‘communicate’ and impacting the way we share stories.
In this TED Talk storyteller and poet, Rives tells a typographical fairy tale, it’s relevant, quirky, thought-provoking and entertaining.
A 3-minute story [...]

The next 5000 days of the WWW

In 2007 the web was 5000 days old, in a thought provoking TED Talk, Kevin Kelly discusses the next 5000 days of the World Wide Web…’It’s amazing and we’re not amazed’…..
“We have to get better in believing in the impossible.”