{"id":4717,"date":"2011-08-14T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2011-08-14T12:32:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T19:32:50","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2011\/08\/14\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-135\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1664704\/the-creator-of-ted-aims-to-reinvent-conferences-once-again\">The Creator Of TED Aims To Reinvent Conferences Once Again | Co. Design<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Symposium-style v conference-presentation-style?<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nNot that anyone believes the slick-presentation conference approach will go away, nor should: Wurman thinks TED and other shows will continue to be crowd-pleasers. But he sees it as a 20th century model. \u201cWhat I\u2019m trying to think of,\u201d he says, \u201cis how to do the best conference for the beginning of the 21st century.\u201d<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/tedco\">tedco<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/richard_saul_wurman\">richard_saul_wurman<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/conferences\">conferences<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/rory_stewart_time_to_end_the_war_in_afghanistan.html\">Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan | Video on TED.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Rory Stewart makes a lot of sense.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nBritish MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9\/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and coalition forces still fighting there? He shares lessons from past military interventions that worked &#8212; Bosnia, for instance &#8212; and shows that humility and local expertise are the keys to success.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/tedco\">tedco<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/rory_stewart\">rory_stewart<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/war\">war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/afghanistan\">afghanistan<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/video\">video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/158\/adam-lisagor-advertising\">Adam Lisagor Is The Quietest Pitchman | Fast Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">&#8220;But his tone is his real strength. &#8220;I try to identify that thing in a product that matters most to me,&#8221; Lisagor says. &#8220;I&#8217;ll glom onto that element and try to recreate it in this linear story I&#8217;m telling.&#8221; That calm, Billy Mays-free approach conveys an inherent trust. It assumes that the viewer is the kind of person smart enough to appreciate the product&#8217;s value. That&#8217;s exactly the kind of customer tech startups want, which does much to explain their love for him: Lisagor is sui generis&#8211;&#8220;the best and only one doing what he does,&#8221; Dorsey says&#8211;and his promos blend &#8220;the aesthetics and techniques of advertising with the storytelling of an instructional video,&#8221;says Malthe Sigurdsson, Rdio VP of product design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/lonely_sandwich\">lonely_sandwich<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/adam_lisagor\">adam_lisagor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/advertising\">advertising<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creator Of TED Aims To Reinvent Conferences Once Again | Co. Design Symposium-style v conference-presentation-style? QUOTE Not that anyone believes the slick-presentation conference approach will go away, nor should: Wurman thinks TED and other shows will continue to be crowd-pleasers. 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