Passion lives here

"The best four minutes of my entire life were those in the Olympic stadium. My husband is offended when I say this" -- Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende spoke at the TED conference in March 2007. She spoke about passion. About helping. About women. About strength. And about feminism.

She speaks with strength. With humour. With power. And with passion.

Watch the lecture, and see what you can change in the world.



take care,
William Knott

p.s. she also passes on beauty tips from Sophia Loren

tags : Isabel Allende, overheard, TED, passion

The Spirit of John Philip Sousa

When the precursor to the phonograph arrived, John Philip Sousa was not a happy musician. He fretted that people would stop spending time singing the old songs and the songs of the day.

I don't know if he meant mixing them together, but he was right.
Sort of.

The law changed in such a way to make these mixes illegal. But Mashups still live...

Yup I'm going to Mashup University (and possibly Mashup Camp too). Sousa (and perhaps Larry Lessig) would be proud.

To see what I'm talking about here is Larry Lessig talk on Creativity recorded at TED in March of this year. And yes I so want to go to one of these.

Embedded video from T.E.D. Talks series



tags : John Philip Sousa, mixing, copyright, law, mashup, Larry Lessig, creativity, TED