BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?

Subject: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 04:43 PM

Maybe you have some ideas that you could reprise or a wish or two that you could sleep on and give it a post tomorrow.
Sometimes the best ideas, be they old or new, just come to mind from folks here who are not members of a self proclaimed genius society, MOM, MENSA or the highest pedigreed PhD's.

A good heart and a can do spirit is what it takes for a million or more people to share a wish that could change the world.

I got nuthin right now but I might some day.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 05:39 PM

The thing kids do to keep things going forever, often makes sense.
Why?
Because when you keep questioning, you get more answers.
Why?
Because you always thought you KNEW the answers, but you didn't.
Why?
Because it makes people feel better to think they have answers.
Why?
Because... I don't know.
Why?
Because I stopped asking.
Why?
...

Or something like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 07:30 PM

I might do if I knew what TED stood for.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: bobad
Date: 28 Aug 14 - 07:50 PM

Google is your friend: TED

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Janie
Date: 29 Aug 14 - 02:55 AM

Love those TED talks on NPR on Sunday morning. Wonderful notions and inventive, thoughtful minds, all brighter and more creative than my own mind. Always food for thought that I never mistake as gospel truth, regardless of the convictions of the presenter.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Aug 14 - 03:41 AM

Yes, but what does "TED" mean? What does the TLA stand for?

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Aug 14 - 09:35 AM

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan: "Ideas Worth Spreading".

In my neck of the woods "TLA" stands for Texas Library Association. I didn't see it in the rest of the thread so I wonder why you ask?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 29 Aug 14 - 10:10 AM

Google is your friend: TED

Good communication is about making things clear and unambiguous. I shouldn't have to resort to Google to understand a post on Mudcat.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Aug 14 - 10:18 AM

Why?

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Aug 14 - 11:38 AM

Three Letter Acronym

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 08:22 AM

Jeez no matter what I say or do its too ambiguous.

I will try in the future to post unambiguously in seven languages with multiple links.

At least it is a good idea.
No really where are the ideas? I've been unavoidably off line for two weeks and I come back to "sorry mate I don't unnerstan a word you said."

I once demonstrated here that most people are stingy about sharing good ideas thinking that they might be foolishly giving away a fortune like giving away Aunt Minnie's Kentucky recipe for fried chicken.

It all started when I suggested publishing a novel in the format of a chat room and include some of the most outstanding posts and ideas I had seen on Mudcat word for word.
There were litigious responses and huddled cliques yelling "no mine, mine". So be it , sharing is not everyone's favorite thing. Some of those people are no longer with us and are dearly missed.

10 years later its evident that anything can go viral from the cute, funny, puzzling, amazing to the weird, scary, depraved and sick.

Here's hoping the good ideas will go viral faster and farther than the bad. You know bad things like decapitation leading to decapitalization, just like the terrorists want.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 10:23 AM

Apparently Donuel thinks all the rest of us are nerds too.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 11:05 AM

OK, I Google, I find:
European public procurement journal Tenders Electronic Daily (TED)
A 2012 film
and some other things

Can I be arsed to work out which the OP is about? can I buggery!

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 11:08 AM

"Jeez no matter what I say or do its too ambiguous."

Exactly what do you mean by that ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 11:12 AM

I think Donuel has underestimated the number of contentedly ignorant people who are eager to join the battle against those who aspire to learn.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 12:20 PM

And some who post here are contentedly ambiguous people.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 12:23 PM

I would like to see ways of getting stuff, like our excess stuff, to places that need it, like developing countries, or places after natural disasters. We have lots and lots and lots of stuff. We throw away or hoard very valuable electronics that could revolutionize agriculture, education, medicine in very impoverished places. We are immediately hit with the response "just send money." There has to be an ongoing way of delivering still usable stuff to places devoid of it.

Also, monsoon water..there are so many places that desperately need water while others literally drown in it. Again, some sort of transportation. If the transportation is essentially free, as in computerized sails or solar powered cargo boats, a lot of problems can be solved. We do not use shipping as we should and rely too much on air power, especially in disasters that are right on the edge of the ocean..i.e., Haiti, Japan etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 12:25 PM

And there I was thinking it was some kind of evangelistic US sect, referring to The End of Days...mind you...really?

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 01:00 PM

The first paragraph of a blog in The New Republic, by Evgeny Morosov:

THE NAKED AND THE TED

"The new pamphlet- it would be too strong, and not only quantitatively, to call it a book- by Parag and Ayesha Khanna, the techno-babbling power couple, gallops through so many esoteric themes and irrelevant factoids (did you know that "58% or millennials would rather give up their sense of smell than their mobile phone?) that one might forgive the authors for never properly attending to their grandest most persuasive and almost certainly inadvertent argument. Only the rare reader would finish this piece of digito-furturistic nonsense unconvinced that technology is- to borrow a term from the philosopher Harry Frankfurt- bullshit. No, not just technology itself; just much of today's discourse about technology, of which this little e-book is a succinct and mind-numbing example. At least TED Books, the publishing outlet of the hot and overheated TED Conference, which brought this hidden gem to the wider public- did not kill any trees in the publishing process."

In another article noted by googling, the TEDDIES suggest that non-technical employees of a company gather together and throw out ideas for discussion- I remember some 50 years age, this was encouraged in some of the major companies- a laughable bit of folderol perhaps worth a footnote in corporate histories.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 04:50 PM

ATL still not explained?

I have a TED talk to propose on the evoution of language.

Subject: RE: BS: Have you a TED idea or wish?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 25 Sep 14 - 11:17 PM

Yeah, I have attended two big TED's.

The "Kohler" walk about house was perhaps the most amazing.
A friend and I "social hacked" a private, escorted tour based on a WSJ article and an airline ticket.

Lots of TED Talks on You Tube. (most are like a tournament final in a university expository round).

Sincerely,
Gargoyle,
Never pay full price - there is always a discount available...never pay discount when the backdoor is free.