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You Got The Fever? I Got The Curator.
Day 226 I never thought of this as a philanthropy buzzword, but noted blogger Lucy Bernholz says it is: Curator. She cited the TED and TEDx conferences among others that have curators. That word used to refer to people who worked in museums and art galleries. I’ve known several curators and guest curators, and their jobs involved [...]
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This is the shirt that launched a thousand lies. OK, I’m exaggerating for the sake of literary allusion. It was maybe a dozen cases of mistaken idenTEDy. www.mondonation.com allows you to complete the sentence “i believe” and put it on the back of a t-shirt. I got a long-sleeved pink one that says “i believe heaven is a [...]
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I know, I know, enough about TED. But whatever you care about, someone at TED is probably doing something about it. One of my core principles is “non-duplication of effort.” Why should you work so hard to do something that’s already been done, or that other people have figured out a way to do that [...]
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Did you seethe New York Times Magazine this weekend where Virginia Heffernan owned up to being a junkie? As friends of Bill W. say, “Hi, Virginia.” I, too, am a TED addict. I’m going for my big fix next week. The rush is indescribable. You can get a contact high at www.ted.com. Like the usual [...]
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