TED + Twitter = Sadomasochist

Many of our Twitter followers are at TED right now. I got a lot of tweets reporting on Bill Gates’ keynote: something to do with KIPP. Mmmmm… I don’t like it.

If you want to torture yourself and get pleasure from it, here are some of the peeps twittering from TED:
@TEDchris
@eveblossom
@ted2009
@austinhill
@eternia
@laureltouby
@jesswatje
@HelenWalters
@heartnsoul
@whiteafrican
@leighleighsf
@brainpicker
@casinclair

Who else??

The new TED Fellows program

Who doesn’t dream to go to TED, all expenses covered?

Here’s your chance!!

The TED Fellows program is designed to bring together young world-changers and trailblazers who have shown unusual accomplishment and exceptional courage. The program targets individuals from the Asia/Pacific region, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, though anyone from anywhere in the world, age 18 and over, is welcome to apply.

Fifty Fellows will be recruited each year. Of those Fellows, 20 will be selected for the extended, three-year Senior Fellows program. (more)

For some inspiration, meet the 2009 Long Beach Fellow, which includes the Founder of Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network, a conservation geneticist using genetic markers to track and interdict illegal songbird trafficking or a Iranian physicist turned documentary filmmaker.

School kills creativity, he says.

With 4 days to go until the next TED, we thought we would share one of our favorite TEDtalk with you.

Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers.

His latest book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything was published in January 2009.