Sylvain Zimmer

Not so much blogging these days, but next week will be a very, very special one for me and my 2 fellow TEDxParis friends Michel and Xavier.

We’re going to TEDGlobal 2010, which is the british edition of TED happening in Oxford. From what I’ve heard the quality of the talks is the same as the “real” TED but in a quite different and unique atmosphere. I certainly hope so and will try to blog a bit if I find the time in what promises to be a busy week for our brains ;-)

Highlights other than the talks should be a workshop for TEDxers, the World Cup final with other early attendees on Sunday night, the big guesthouse we rented for the week in Oxford, and I guess a few visits of the city plus other social events with the attendees.

So that’s it! I hope to come back home full of ideas, both for the world and for  TEDx PARIS 2011, planned for end of January 2011 ;-)

Speech about innovation, openness and creative commons

Joining us via skype, wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about open source search engines

Funny coincidence (even if there seem to be people on strike every day here) : I’m flying from Paris to Brisbane for the second time and once again, big demonstrations all around the city. Luckily there’s no strike at the airport!

I’ll spend my flight reading the seemingly excellent book Collective Intelligence. I’ve only gone throught the first chapters but it is already one of the best books I’ve read from O’Reilly.

I just got back from Wikimania 07 in Taipei. I had the chance to present Jamendo twice, both at a Creative Commons Taiwan conference and at Wikimania itself.

This week in Taipei was a real eye-opener, I met a lot of people and discovered some new interests… more on that later.

In the meantime, here is my presentation: