Last week at TED, Jamie Oliver, the winner of the TED Prize,  gave a talk about how we are slowly killing our children (in America) through not educating them about basic things like how to prepare food.  He’s right.   We are a sickly obese nation. This, the first in a series of posts where...

I’m not quite done reflecting on the amazing experience that was TEDxColumbus.  I tried to categorize the talks we curated and came up with this quirky tree analogy.  It made me think about the larger way we organize the stories we tell.  Which one would you be? 1.  Trunk:  The speaker sticks...

We were in a plane between Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska during another week-long tour of some remote part of the US during the presidential campaign in 1996.  That year, we did 74 cities in 28 states in 10 weeks.  And we did it without data-enabled cell phones.   Really, how did we survive? On that...

(After a sabbatical of sorts, I’m back to work.  Coming off of the busy summer, a vacation and a child starting school demanded a break in most things routine like my blog entries here.) I noted in an earlier post that I had an idea around TED, the conference that blasts out ideas worth spreading. ...

I’m working on an idea that involves TED, and needless to say, I’m energized by it.  TED is a terrific web site (and may I say culture?) where they claim “ideas worth spreading” through 18 minute talks, videotaped and posted.  By the way, do you still videotape in the digital...