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Standing out from the crowd

TED IntronetworksThe TED conference has a nifty networking system (powered by Intronetworks) that you're automatically plugged into once you're signed up as an attendee.

Once you've submitted a few details – what your values/interests are, what kind of person you are, what kind of people you'd like to meet at TED and so on, the website groups people around you according to things you have in common – the closer they are, the more you're (theoretically) alike.

Comforting, then, to see that there's a sizeable exclusion zone around yours truly, like I've dropped some kind of particularly eggy cyber-fart. Hmm…

On a sensible note, there's a nice pre-TED write up at Bruno Giussani's blog.

On a somewhat-less-than-sensible note, I spotted today that Destination Cycling are offering individuals the chance to ride the entire Tour de France route over 26 days in July this year. Wowser. I wonder if it's too late to write that into the training programme for the next expedition…

— 20 February 2006 | Filed under Miscellany | Comments are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. sarah :) wrote:

    cool. perhaps it's because you're a robot.

    good to say hello on sat; apologies for leaving so soon, I was slightly shattered.

    February 21 2006 · 9:54 pm

  2. erica wrote:

    Evidence that you stand out in a crowd (quite literally).

    March 2 2006 · 4:13 pm

  3. Gnorb.NET » Blog Archive » TED Talks: Technology, Entertainment, and Design wrote:

    [...] A few months ago, while reading one of my favorite blogs (BenSaunders.com), I saw a couple of posts (post 1, post 2) on something called the "TED" conference. "TED conference?" I thought. "Like the United Airways low-cost air line? You know, I used to work with a guy named Ted…" [...]

    June 28 2006 · 5:49 pm