Posts Tagged ‘TED’

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Chrissy Sievers

Search: Online “Filter Bubbles”

As Internet companies attempt to personalize their services to each user, there is an unintended result: we view an edited down version of reality that colors the world that we see. Eli Pariser discusses this in his latest TED talk that you can watch here.

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Matt Bigelow

Video of the Week: Weird, or Just Different?

This past week, Parthenon watched a brief video from Derek Sivers speaking at a TED event in India. (Learn more about Parthenon's support of TED.)

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Matt Bigelow

Parthenon Supports TEDxNashville

As soon as I heard TED was coming to Nashville (in the form of TEDxNashville), I knew I had to get involved. TED had been my own personal Facebook-style addiction for almost two years now, i.e., while my wife learned which of our friends posted the latest round of baby photos on the popular social networking site, I was parked on the couch with my laptop watching video after video on TED.com. I even created a DIY Smartboard in my wife's first grade classroom after watching Johnny Lee's Wiimote wizardry.

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