Jen Dodd

According to the speaker, Nollywood (in Nigeria) is the third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood. - Jen Dodd

Fun interview with Steve Wozniak shortly after his book "iWoz" came out. - Jen Dodd

"Last week I wrote about the nonprofit FORGE, who’s executive director Kjerstin Erickson has been using her blog on the Social Edge website to chronicle the effect of the financial crisis on her organization. For FORGE, this isn’t just an experiment in radical transparency, they are in very real danger of going out of business." [...] "Is Kjerstin doing the right thing by blogging about their troubles? Is she out of her mind? They only need to raise $100,000 by the end of the year. How can they leverage their willingness to embrace radical transparency and their social media savvy to sidestep the financial crisis and continue pursuing their mission?" - Jen Dodd

A start-up founder's perspective on how to avoid becoming a dictator as your company grows. While his experience is in managing developers, I think his insights are applicable to most management situations. - Jen Dodd

One of the most compelling talks on science outreach I've seen, and it fits in 12 minutes. Four simple little questions about science that apparently most people get wrong, including science graduates and science teachers. - Jen Dodd

An entrepreneurs take on going to space, and on the value of prizes for making things happen. - Jen Dodd

Making tiny self-assembling computers using DNA strands. - Jen Dodd

"When trying to be agile and include the user in our early stage development we have run into the fact that people that are used to business applications are not used to seeing a rough application. They treat it like it is production quality at the earliest of stages and in turn can bog down development." - Jen Dodd

Detailed and passionate article about why academics (especially PhD students) should learn to network, and how to go about it. - Jen Dodd

Measuring the breadth of internet-users perspectives - Jen Dodd

Saving a few copies of 1500 human languages for at least 2,000 years (including one copy in space!) - Jen Dodd

(via Jamie McQuay) - Jen Dodd

Paul Collier's TED talk on "4 ways to improve the lives of the bottom billion" is a great presentation - not as fancy as some, but really striking. I also like Robert Fuller, Stewart Brand, John Doerr, Freeman Dyson, and Bill Stone. (Yes, I have watched way too many TED talks...) - Jen Dodd