TEDxBend, which I blogged about previously, is just over a week away! Taking place next Saturday the 28th at Summit High School, it’s bringing together amazing speakers in true TED tradition with an overall theme of, appropriately, “Bending Rules.” The speakers are: Blake Canterbury Raj Dhingra Myrlie Evers-Williams Charles Jennings David Hume Kennerly Wren LaFeet Eric Plantenberg Malerie Pratt Sidney Rittenberg So, the bad news: tickets have sold out, so there are no seats left. … Continue reading →

Perhaps you’ve heard about TED, the annual conferences that “bring together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less).” It’s a nonprofit with the mission to spread ideas—and to that end they give the best of TED away free as videos on the site. I’ve watched a few here and there and it’s pretty good stuff, impressive. And now Bend is … Continue reading →