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[26 Oct 2009 | Comments | ]
Commenting on the Obvious

Shortly after a snapping a photo of a bowl of bananas with a tag that said, obviously enough, that they were “bananas,” a friend of mine and I laughed at how silly it seemed [then] to put a tag on something so obvious. Of course they were bananas! Then I rounded the table and saw several items, like Yorkshire Pudding, and some other exotic fruits and dishes I had no idea what they were. I heard a couple of Englishmen laughing at the idea that one would need to label …

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[30 Sep 2009 | Comments | ]
Help Me Get My Twitter Account Back!

My Twitter account (@beckyblanton and my TED Twitter ) was hi-jacked several weeks, a month or more ago by one of the low-lifes who think it’s funny to post an ap and phish for account numbers. I fell for it. Now I no longer have a twitter account, although I get followers everyday.
I’ve emailed Twitter repeatedly….and get the same lame, confused response and NO account. The problem is, they want my phone number. I didn’t sign up with a phone number. I signed up online. There is NO phone number …

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[24 Sep 2009 | Comments | ]
Six Minutes and a Great Idea

CAPTION: Becky Blanton shakes Daniel Pink’s hand at the TED Global 2009 stage in Oxford, England July 2009.

For those of you who don’t know by now, I had to give the “Talk of my life,” at TED Global 2009 this past July. I’m not a public speaker really and had no idea how to give a talk that would be worthy of the brilliance and inspiration of TED. But thanks to a fantastic web site called “SixMinutes.com” I got through it and gave, I think, the talk of my life. …

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[20 Sep 2009 | Comments | ]
It’s Official….TED Magazine has launched!

To read more about the designers, photographers and the brilliance behind TEDGlobal’s magazine, go to site the DesignMind site and leave a comment! Thanks!