Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts

Saturday, September 29, 2012

gitHub




 
From TED

'The open-source programming world has a lot to teach democracy, says Clay Shirky.
In this fascinating talk from TEDGlobal 2012, Shirky harkens back to the early days of the printing press. At the time, a group of “natural philosophers” (who would later adopt the term “scientists”) called the Invisible College realized that the press could offer a new way to share and debate their work. However, because printing books would be far too slow for this purpose, they came up with a new invention — the scientific journal. So what does this mean for us today?' Shirky explains, “If I had to pick a group that I think is our Invisible College — our generation’s collection of people trying to take new tools and press them into the service of, not more arguments, but better arguments — I’d pick the open-source programmers.” Read the rest..

Friday, June 29, 2012

Youth in Trouble

My favourite band of the past decade, The Presets, return with a new video 'Youth in Trouble' to lead the new album 'Pacifica'.


 
 
Balance to the force returned it has!

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Irish Rail

White Collar Boy playing on the 11.10 Dublin to Waterford Train on the 21st June 2012






Via Broadsheet

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Disruptive Wonder for a Change

Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality.

 







A fascinating and good natured talk given by Kelli Anderson challenging our perceptions about a number of everyday things through design. 

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Beginners


A friend sent me this saying that it resonated with her and she heard me in everyword.



Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.


It was a real compliment.

Friday, February 10, 2012