{"id":647,"date":"2012-03-12T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T03:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=647"},"modified":"2012-03-12T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T03:18:58","slug":"how-ted-makes-ideas-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"How TED Makes Ideas Smaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great article about what&#8217;s good &#8211; and what&#8217;s bad &#8211; about the TED conference.\u00a0 The paragraph that resonated with me the most is also the reason why I will never turn down an invitation to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foo_Camp\" target=\"_blank\">Foo Camp<\/a> but inevitably turn down many invitations to conferences:<\/p>\n<p><em>We live in a world of increasingly networked knowledge. And it&#8217;s a world that allows us to appreciate what has always been true: that new ideas are never sprung, fully formed, from the heads of the inventors who articulate them, but are always &#8212; always &#8212; the result of discourse and interaction and, in the broadest sense, conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/03\/how-ted-makes-ideas-smaller\/253994\/\">How TED Makes Ideas Smaller &#8211; Megan Garber &#8211; Technology &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great article about what&#8217;s good &#8211; and what&#8217;s bad &#8211; about the TED conference.\u00a0 The paragraph that resonated with me the most is also the reason why I will never turn down an invitation to a Foo Camp but inevitably turn down many invitations to conferences: We live in a world of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}