Words & Tricks

World’s greatest people make wishes, blow out candles at TED conference

The breathtakingly self-aggrandizing and expensive TED Conference is going on right now in Monterey, California. Owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established by Chris Anderson in 1996, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. With a moniker like that, is it any wonder that it looms large online? It began as a conference to bring together individuals from those three industries. Now, it’s staff members devote themselves to “spreading ideas.” According to the TED website, “the conference brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers.”

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Further Reading on Words & Tricks

• BIL and TED’s excellent philosophical differences (1)
• A couple updates to Words & Tricks: Tweet Digest and Comment Love (0)
• Video: Twitter in plain English (8)
• SuperDelegate SuperUpdate (1)
• Music library getting dusty? 3-and-a-half websites you may not know (but should immediately bookmark) (2)

Tags: chris anderson, Clinton, dave eggers, ideas, karen armstrong, Neil Turok, TED, ted conference, TED Prize, TED2008, thinkers, Tweets, Twitter

Megan T. and Dan Abrams fistfight in Heaven

The debate about SuperDelegates (touched on here and here on this blog) is heating up on the Web. Bloggers and pundits alike are constructing the narratives and counternarrtives at lightening speed. Will the future of the Democratic Party be determined on the ground by rank and file voters, or will it be decided in the proverbial “smoke-filled back rooms?” Are a majority of SuperDelegates beholden to the Clintons because they’ve been so influential, so powerful and so everywhere for so long? Or have the Clintons stepped on way too many Armani Spotted Pony Mules during their tenure?

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Further Reading on Words & Tricks

• SuperDelegate SuperUpdate (1)
• SuperDelegates: Democratic leaders don’t trust voters (5)
• World’s greatest people make wishes, blow out candles at TED conference (4)
• Watchdoggin’: Top notch reporters & editors share investigative journalism tips for ethnic media (0)
• Minneapolis Star Tribune wins multimedia journalism award (0)

Tags: caucus, Clinton, Dan Abrams, delegates, DNC, Minnesota, Obama, SuperDelegate, superdelegates, WTF

SuperDelegate SuperUpdate

• SuperDelegate U.S. Rep. Tim Walz (MN-01) announces support for Obama after Minnesota caucus fracas. Also at MNPublius.
• Tips to avoid a a Clinton / Obama fight at the Democratic National Convention by letting the SuperDelegates vote now.
• Megalomaniac Joe Lieberman has been de-supered. Also at Think Progress.
• Obama wants to sway Clinton-declared SuperDelegates to his side.

Further Reading on Words & Tricks

• Megan T. and Dan Abrams fistfight in Heaven (1)
• SuperDelegates: Democratic leaders don’t trust voters (5)
• World’s greatest people make wishes, blow out candles at TED conference (4)
• S. Dakota Senator in Critical ConditionFuture of Democratic Control of Senate Uncertain (7)

Tags: caucus, Clinton, delegates, Democrat, Joe Lieberman, Megalomaniac, Obama, superdelegates