April 15th, 2010
By Helen Pitlick
Sarah Stuteville is passionate about storytelling, and pushes the boundaries of journalism to embrace new media opportunities through her work with the Common Language Project and America in 5. She speaks on Friday with Morgan Dusatko about America in 5, ” an interactive first draft of history for today and generations to come.” I sat down with Sarah on April 14 to discuss her thoughts on TEDx and the future of journalism.
What are you most looking forward to about TEDx Seattle?
It’s kind of two parts. One is the opportunity to share all of the amazing projects coming out of Seattle right now and just the idea that there’s going to be one event where we really have the best and the brightest consolidated. Putting those forward is really exciting to me; I can’t wait for that. Of course, I’m also thrilled to be able to present a project that I’m so excited about and I feel really passionately about, especially to that group of people. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 14th, 2010
By Helen Pitlick
Ben Huh has built an online empire of hilarity that includes LOL Cats, I Has a Hotdog, the Fail Blog, Engrish and many more. He chats with us about building community, his latest book, and what makes a successful meme.
What are you most looking forward to at TEDxSea?
I’m nervous and excited to talk about my life goals. I usually focus on the business in my presentations. This will be the first time I get to talk about a personal topic.
Why should we buy your new book, I Has a Hotdog?
It’ll bring you more than the usual 5-minutes of happiness! And you don’t have to click on things to laugh. 
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April 14th, 2010
by Sophia Kristina Agtarap
Eugene Cho Co-founder | ODW
What moves one to go from speaker, minister and traveler to founder of a grassroots movement dedicated to fighting extreme global poverty? Read on to meet the how and why of One Day’s Wages co-founder, Eugene Cho.
Why the need to create One Day’s Wages? What moved you?
The problem itself [extreme global poverty] is a big, huge, vast, horrible situation and it amazes me that I still can’t get my mind wrapped around it that in 2010, we are hailing the advances of ideas and technology and social media…but there are 24,000 children that die every day from things that are preventable.
Eugene Cho is aware that the stats go on and on. He’s always known about them, he says. And like a smaller percentage of us, has wrestled with them. Through his travels across the globe, he has put faces behind theses stats and saw the opportunity for he and his family to do something. Convicted to make some life choices with their 2009 salary, the seed for One Day’s Wages was planted. Read the rest of this entry »
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