Sesssion Title: Social Justice from a Global Perspective
Sustainable South Bronx is one of the best examples of community-initiated environmental stewardship in the U.S. Director Majora Carter discusses the need for community-driven initiatives.
John Legend speaks at Zeitgeist ’07
Session Title: Social Justice from a Global Perspective
A former Boston Consulting Group consultant, Legend brings attention to needs in the developing world. A protégé of Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute, Legend’s “Show Me” campaign is designed to encourage action — no matter how big or small — to make a difference. Legend comes to Zeitgeist directly from Africa, where he is working to create a web of support for a village to help bring it out of poverty.
Larry Brilliant at Zeitgeist ’07
Session Title: Social Justice from a Global Perspective
Google.org executive director set’s up the major issues related to social justice, helping attendees to understand why it’s relevant to them in their professional and personal lives.
Maurice Levy at Zeitgeist ’07
Session title: The Living Web
Maurice Levy speaks at Zeitgeist ’07 about how information and communication technology can provide the opportunity to co-create — to innovate in new ways, in collaboration between people across and even outside the organization.
Jimmy Wales at Zeitgeist ’07
Session title: Wealth of Networks
Jimmy Wales participates in the Wealth of Networks panel at Zeitgeist ’07. Information, products and services are synthesized at massive scale. Software is sewn into the fabric of the Net. Everyone shares. Everyone creates.
Merluzzo Pasta Puttanesca – Pimp My Cod!
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Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman
http://www.ted.com Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Eric Schmidt at BFF Summit
Eric Schmidt gives the keynote address at the Black Filmmakers Foundation Summit in Dana Point, CA on October 12, 2007.
Meet an AdSense publisher: Tim Carter
www.google.com/timsentme – Askthebuilder.com’s Tim Carter is one publisher who’s been able to do great things with AdSense. Here’s his story on moving from building houses to building websites and how AdSense has helped him along the way.
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