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Creativity versus Your Smartphone Addiction
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I recently read this post by Ogilvy’s David Long, espousing the creative benefits of using a pen and notebook over purely digital means. Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I’ve always felt my best work comes from putting pen to paper. Reading David’s first point (“digital is distracting”) I was reminded of this TED…
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Dying art
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There are currently twelve master penmen in the entire world. Jake Weidmann is the youngest. He became the youngest person to receive his Master Penman certificate in July 2011. He works across several mediums including drawing in pencil and charcoal; pen and ink; painting in acrylic, airbrush, oil and gouache; sculpting in wood, bone, antler and…
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Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the Web – TED TALK
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In this enlightening TED talk, Mr. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about how far we have gone since the Web was first invented and released to the world in the late eighties. Since its launch in 1989, 40% of the world is now using the World Wide Web, allowing us to…
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TED Talk – Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
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In 1993, while a student in England, Drew Curtis began sending links to his friends. Over time that grew until he founded a website for the links: Fark.com. The site has now grown into one of the largest, and most irreverant, news aggregators on the web. Drew Curtis tells the story of how he fought…
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Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming – TED Talk
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Has our technology — our cell phones and iPods and cameras — stopped us from dreaming? Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman says no, as she demos “Khoya,” her new storybook for iPad, which floats us through a magical world in 7 minutes of pure creativity. I found this very interesting. Shilo Shiv Suleman is an…
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Seth Godin – Tribes. Why they are important to marketing.
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There is no doubt that the internet opens up many opportunities for each of us to find and communicate with people that have similar interests to us. Most of us have joined a group, a club, or a forum that we visit regularly to talk about or interact with what we love most. From a…
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SOPA: Clay Shirky’s P.O.V
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With SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) on the tip of everyone’s tongue, Clay Shirky offers a unique point of view on this movement that has the potential to change how we interact, create and view the web. What are your thoughts on SOPA? Is it necessary? Yours, Belinda.

