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IANA EXPO 2023

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Creative Friction

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Hindsight is 20/20

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Conscious Streaming

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Good Manners

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Urban Sounds

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Tracing Skylines

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Love Letters

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Just A Reflektor

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Release Early, Often, and with Rap Music

“How much impact can you have with the least lines of code – that was important to hackers. But I think that same kind of thinking applies to making anything…

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People for Smarter Cities

IBM is committed to creating solutions that help cities all over the world get smarter, in order to make life in those cities better. That’s why IBM and Ogilvy…

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Time After Time

The heritage of Detroit is rooted in craftsmanship, quality and making the world move. Shinola, a watch factory, bicycle workshop and leather goods…

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IBM Watson at Your Service. One Step Closer to Passing the Turing Test.

IBM has recently unveiled the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, "a technology breakthrough that allows brands to crunch big data in record time to transform the…

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American Noise

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The Future of Lighting

In a recent issue of Fast Company, the editors and 27 judges including MoMA's curator and the lead designer at Facebook identified 56 finalists for their 2012…

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Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40

We're excited to announce that we were honored as two of Crain's Cleveland Business Forty Under 40!

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Urban Adventures: Buffalo Edition

As summer drew to a close we celebrated one year as husband and wife. We decided to treat ourselves to a much needed vacation to...romantic Buffalo, New York.

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Hacking Gaming and Technology for the Arts

Besides Atari, Commodore 64 and Nintendo, I've never really liked video games. But when I first moved to Cleveland, I worked at Marcus Thomas on the Nestle…

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A Wonderful Designer and Dear Friend

Our friendship with Brian Jasinski started at Dinner with Strangers created by Danielle DeBoe of Room Service and Dredgers Union. Since then, we have become…

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TechCentral

Then this year for TEDxCLE 2012: The Maker Class, we partnered with Cleveland Public Library (CPL) on #CLEBookHunt. It was exciting because we got to meet a…

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All songs considered, music is an art and should be respected.

If you didn't catch the chatter a few weeks ago about the NPR All Songs Considered intern that wrote a provoking blog post on music consumption in the digital…

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GE and Facebook Make Health and Fitness Social with HealthyShare

GE and Facebook have partnered to create HealthyShare, an app that tracks your health and fitness goals, encouraging you along the way by sharing your progress…

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Summer Footwear

Hallie Bram Kogelschatz, the Marketing Director at Saks Fifth Avenue, shares lots of different styles that will take you from beach to the bash!

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Summer Style

Hallie Bram Kogelschatz, the Marketing Director at Saks Fifth Avenue, shares great ways to spice up any event as well as some summer styles in furniture.

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TEDxCLE 2012 Speakers Announced!

We couldn't be more pleased to share our 2012 speakers with you. What a fascinating crew of people - many suggested by the Cleveland community. Truly a…

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Beat 2012

DJ Mark Ronson will be traveling the world to meet up-and-coming athletes in order to intentionally record their passively generated music, or record the…

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Experience Cleveland Innovation at TEDxCLE 2012

TEDxCLE 2012 planning is in full swing and we have a number of exciting announcements to share with you!

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TEDxCLE 2012: Who Needs to Be Heard?

Nominations are officially open for TEDxCLE 2012!

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That’s…Interesting…

Two of Cleveland Magazine's Most Interesting People 2012!

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Remix the CLE

Once again, mobile apps are redefining how artists compose music. I stumbled upon this app the other day and immediately saw the potential in utilizing this…

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Music for a Film

I went to film school + once had someone tell me that I "thought life was a movie." It was supposed to be an insult, but, really what's wrong with that? I…

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The Mashup Class

Copy, combine and transform. Remixing and mashing up culture, and defining a generation. The Mashup Class.

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Art, Science & Technology in Music

Bjork's latest album may be her most ambitious project yet. Biophilia is a collection of songs composed with the themes of nature, science and humanity…

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The Power of Two: Passion & Love

A trend in the fashion industry has emerged, passionate couples creating denim with an increased focus on designing, producing and manufacturing in the USA;…

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The Statistics of Music

As titled, "The Evolution of Music," may not actually document the progression of music, but this video does illustrate music statistics in an engaging video…

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MIT Media Lab

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Behind-the-Scenes of TED2011

On Monday, February 28th, we were lucky enough to be among 160 other TEDx curators and take a behind-the-scenes tour of TED2011 with Lara Stein, Director of…

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TEDx Workshop at TEDActive 2011

On Saturday, February 26th, we traveled from the great city of Cleveland, Ohio to Palm Springs, California to attend TEDx Workshops and of course, TEDActive…

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Intentionally Passive Music Composition

Intentionally passive music composition has interested me for quite some time. This is the idea that we can create music by strategically planning for specific…

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And this is your brain on technology…any questions?

Does consuming information online affect comprehension and retention of information?

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A Digital Rolling Stone 3.0 – Composition in the Digital Age

In this installment of A Digital Rolling Stone, we analyze the composition and creation of music in the digital age via several case studies.

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The departure of an athlete, the death of a true Cleveland original, and the new frontier…

If I didn't address this at all, I think I would be disappointed in myself...so here goes. My slightly personal post about Lebron James, Cleveland, and the…

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Unconsumption

When we were kids it was pretty much beaten into us that planet earth was in danger + the only way to save the planet was to "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle." Perhaps…

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TEDxCLE 2010 & Beyond…

Let's just cut to the chase: There will be a TEDxCLE 2011. And it will be held on April 15th, 2011. We would love to have you join us to celebrate tax day,…

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Dinner With Strangers

When friend and fellow Clevelandophile Danielle Deboe was drafting her speech for TEDxCLE she kept going back to the idea that one of the most powerful things…

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A Digital Rolling Stone 2.0

It seems only appropriate that I'm finally finishing the second installment of "A Digital Rolling Stone," a month after the tenth anniversary of the Recording…

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TEDxCLE: Ideas worth spreading

TED has granted approval for Hallie Bram and me to host the TEDxCLE event. If you aren't familiar with TED it is an annual event where some of the world's…

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The Great Race to Brand the Clouds

The benefits of technology and more specifically the internet, seem to be endless: information and data accessibility, entertainment, commerce, ease of…

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Open Source: The Model Is About Branding

The traditional business model for companies is to create a product and/or provide a service to customers in order to receive payment and hopefully exceed…

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Creativity: The Essence of Change

A look at creativity in advertising, an economic recession and its affect on urban revitalization. The great David Ogilvy once said, "It takes a big idea to…

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The Convergence of Cognitive Neuroscience and Marketing

A few years ago, I read an article in the New York Times that explained the convergence of cognitive neuroscience and marketing. Since then I have been very…

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A Digital Rolling Stone 1.0

Over the past few months, I have noticed that in the back of Rolling Stone there have been a few rotating lists such as Myspace Music Top 10 Songs, iLike Top…

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Engaging and Innovative Interactive Navigation

The progression of interactive design has changed dramatically over the years. From a time when websites consisted only of hyperlinks, text and if you were…

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Subculture and Brand Experience

Hidden in Boston, you will find Bodega, a boutique, hip hop shoe and apparel store. When I visited the store I was amazed to say the least. From the street,…

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