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If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. This show will highlight a different talk each week with host Brady Forrest. Learn more at igniteshow.com.

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1 VideoDefeating Big Brother by Dr. Alex Kilpatrick, ep 75 Cory Doctorow posited that "Little Brother's job is to mess with Big Brother". To do that you need to know what tools Big Brother is using. In the case of biometrics there's a lot of misinformation out there. For example... 10/18/10 Free View In iTunes

2 VideoOla Helland on Getting One Million Giraffes Ola Helland was bet that he couldn't get One Million hand-drawn giraffes by the end of 2010. With just 8 more months to go Ola has already gathered over 800k. They are collected on the appropriately-named One Million Giraffes. You... 5/13/10 Free View In iTunes

3 VideoBuilding a Huge Rubik's Cube by Mike Tyka In 2009 over 50 people built a large-scale Rubik's Cube for Burningman called Groovik's Cube. Mike Tyka was the lead engineer on the project. The project's stats are impressive: An incredibly large scale (15'x15'x15'), functional Rubik's Cube whose motion... 2/5/10 Free View In iTunes

4 VideoTara Horn on Being a Refugee More than 30 million people are living in exile worldwide. The number went up on January 12th when Haiti suffered an earthquake. Using Burma as an example, Tara Horn walks us through the steps a person would go through from... 1/28/10 Free View In iTunes

5 VideoLeesean Hepnova on It's Cool To Be Flat When technology is used for technology's sake then something's gone wrong. Function has to take priority over Form. Leesean Hepnova is tired of seeing Javascript and Flash used to make a website look cool with effects that make it less... 1/21/10 Free View In iTunes

6 VideoEugene Lin on iPhoning His Way To Retirement Eugene Lin wants to retire. The iPhone App Store is a Gold Rush. How could he not dive in head first? This talk was filmed at Ignite Seattle 8 and is one of the funniest developer talks you'll ever see.... 1/12/10 Free View In iTunes

7 VideoNilofer Merchant on the New How Nilofer Merchant does a lot of consulting for tech companies. She's written a book about her experiences entitled the New How and she's also distilled her wisdom into an Ignite talk for you. This work is licensed under a Creative... 1/7/10 Free View In iTunes

8 VideoPatrick Davison and The Plight of the Digital Chickens Sion chickens caused a social meltdown in Second Life. The digital birds were bred for their color and numbered almost one-hundred thousand causing server slowdowns and attracting griefers. Patrick Davison heard about the controversy and shares his findings. Patrick is... 12/16/09 Free View In iTunes

9 VideoBill Moore on Cash For Clunkers Does it always make sense to get a new car? Cash For Clunkers was a great program for offsetting the cost of that new Prius. However, the math is not always that simple. Bill Moore walks through the total cost... 12/9/09 Free View In iTunes

10 VideoHilary Mason on Replacing Herself With A Very Small Shell Script Hilary Mason, a data researcher for Bit.ly, gave a great, geeky talk on how she has automated her email correspondence; all she used was a very small shell script. As she explains on her blog: The title of my talk... 12/2/09 Free View In iTunes

11 VideoDale Dougherty: Blessed are the Cheesemakers Cheese was a happy accident. It was discovered when animal milk was exposed to bacteria. It has since been elevated to a tasty artform. Dale Dougherty, the founder of Make Magazine, has reclaimed this art from corporations and makes his... 11/18/09 Free View In iTunes

12 VideoTim O'Reilly on Language as a Map O'Reilly Media's Founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly has used language to shape the software industry's thinking several times. In the 1990's he helped create and define the term Open Source (o help de-stigmatize "free software"). In this century he defined... 11/11/09 Free View In iTunes

13 VideoAndrew Odewahn on Visualizing The Senate's Social Graph The U.S. Senate's legislation is the result of ever-shifting alliances. Using data from Govtrack you can get every Senator since John Adams. You also get their roll call votes. By summing the amount of times Senators voted together and dividing... 11/3/09 Free View In iTunes

14 VideoAndrew Hyde on The Posting Economy Andrew Hyde runs Ignite Boulder. In this week's episode he shares his thoughts at Ignite ATL about the rapid economic shifts that can be caused by user-generated content. Andrew calls this The Posting Economy. This work is licensed under a... 10/28/09 Free View In iTunes

15 VideoKathy Sierra on Feeling Better Is Better If you want to be successful with your customers, you need to make them feel succesful. It's all about them achieving awesome. This week, Kathy Sierra explains some of the secrets for creating passionate customers. This is an area that... 10/13/09 Free View In iTunes

16 VideoScotto Moore on CPU: A Digital Fairy Tale Ignite is often used for geek ideas and how-to's but it can also be used for stories. Writer-director Scotto Moore shares his digital fairy tale from Ignite Seattle. Not wanting to reveal too much about his sci-fi story, Scotto describes... 10/6/09 Free View In iTunes

17 VideoStacy Holmstedt on What Happens To Your Body After You Die It's one of those things you usually don't think about: what will happen to my body when I die? Stacy Holmstedt has always been interested in the subject and in this talk she presents us with a very matter-of-fact answer... 9/29/09 Free View In iTunes

18 VideoMark Argo on Adapting Technology The future of gadgets isn't necessarily the homogeneous iPhone. With open source hardware and personal manufacturing, we can all have custom gadgets someday. At Ignite Toronto Mark Argo talks about what we can learn from history as we try to... 9/22/09 Free View In iTunes

19 VideoMatthias Shapiro on Effective Information Visualization Visualizations can be used to make sense of massive amounts of data. As Matthias Shapiro says visualizations turn information into understanding. Designers use color, size, location, time, and networks to convey a message. Matthias Shapiro shares his visualizations at Designer... 9/15/09 Free View In iTunes

20 VideoMehal Shah on How to Win at Scrabble Scrabble isn't a game of who can get the best 6 letter words. It's a game of points and squeezing 2 letter terms into corners. Mehal Shah takes us through clean and sometimes dirty ways to win at Scrabble. Some... 9/9/09 Free View In iTunes

21 VideoA.L. Venable on Why To Ride The Bus Buses are a window into your city. Everybody rides the bus and it provides the rider with the ultimate people-watching opportunity. In 20 slides A.L proclaims her love of the bus. This talk was filmed at Ignite Portland.... 9/1/09 Free View In iTunes

22 VideoJeff Veen: Great Designers Steal Good designers copy. Great designers steal. Jeff Veen, well-known for his design work on MeasureMap, Google Analytics, Wikirank and Typekit, lays out a strong argument for why iPhone imitators are the cargo cults of the digital era. The people... 8/25/09 Free View In iTunes

23 VideoYoram Bauman on Mankiw's 10 Principles of Economics In this week's Ignite Show Yoram Bauman, a standup economist, deconstructs Greg Mankiw's 10 Principles of Economics. In short order Yoram explains away tradeoffs, incentives, margins and markets. They become more common concepts of choices, people, governments, and stupidity (and... 8/18/09 Free View In iTunes

24 VideoAnthony Citrano on Money Remixed, #26 The US economy is going off a cliff and financial practices are being, ahem, re-evaluated. Anthony Citrano takes this thinking a step further and ponders what would happen if the US dollar disappeared. He suggests that corporations will end up... 8/11/09 Free View In iTunes

25 VideoDr. Will Noel on Restoring the Archimdes Palimpsest In 1906 a researcher realized that in the 13th century a book of Archimedes' treatises had been over-written with prayers. Almost a century later the original manuscript was recovered through the high-tech efforts of Dr. Will Noel. As described on... 8/4/09 Free View In iTunes

26 VideoHeather Knight on Social Robots Robots have come a long way. They walk and they talk . They also have advantages over humans: they are stronger, they have a computer for a brain. This makes them well-suited for many tasks -- especially space travel. We... 7/29/09 Free View In iTunes

27 VideoAlexis Bauer on How to Work a Crowd Whenever there's a crowd (like at a live Ignite event) you always have the opportunity to meet a new friend, co-worker, or potential date. However, meeting people, meeting a lot of people at a busy event is a skilled that... 7/23/09 Free View In iTunes

28 VideoGreg Elin on Hackers in Washington, Ep 22 The Obama Administration has taken broad steps to open up government. It's created Twitter accounts, launched data portals, and released spending dashboards. Even with these steps Washington D.C. can be a foreign place to geeks. Greg Elin is a hacker... 7/14/09 Free View In iTunes

29 VideoZoe Keating on Should you join a rock band? Cellist Zoe Keating used to be in tech before taking on the "glamorous" life of a touring musician. In this week's Ignite Show Episode, she talks about the pizza, the long bus rides, odd work hours and making a living... 7/7/09 Free View In iTunes

30 VideoTim Ferriss on The Practicality of Pessimism: Stoicism as a Productivity System. Ep 20 Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, talks about a different type of productivity technique, one based on Stoicism. Tim asks that you ponder this: could defining your fears be more important than defining your goals? This talk was... 6/30/09 Free View In iTunes

31 VideoScott Berkun on Why and How to Speak (at Ignite) Scott Berkun is a great public speaker. He travels the country speaking on project management, innovation, design and lately on how to speak. As an offshoot in his research on his upcoming book he put together this Ignite talk on... 6/23/09 Free View In iTunes

32 VideoTim Hwang on Memes and Social Media Tim Hwang, the founder of ROFLCon and a researcher at the Harvard Berkman center. He's been focusing on the spread of internet memes like xzibit and three-wolf moon. This Ignite talk was filmed at Ignite NYC IV. You can see... 6/16/09 Free View In iTunes

33 VideoBill Gurstelle On The Art of Living Dangerously To keep smart, your brain needs to feel useful. It needs danger to challenge it. In this week's Ignite Show episode, Bill Gurstelle of Make Magazine elaborates on this topic in, "The Art of Living Dangerously". Bill knows about danger.... 6/9/09 Free View In iTunes

34 VideoVeronica Belmont on Making Your Business a Meme Meme's are ideas that spread far and wide. Often today businesses that venture onto the web aren't just looking to have a presence. They are looking to go viral, to have their business become a meme. In this week's Ignite... 6/2/09 Free View In iTunes

35 VideoHillel Cooperman on the Lego Underground Legos are some of the best toys ever made and there's a lot more to them now Hillel Cooperman of the Jackson Fish Market takes us on his family's journey into the Underground World of Lego in this week's Ignite... 5/27/09 Free View In iTunes

36 VideoMichael Galpert on Detecting Photoshopped Images That celebrity in a bikini? Duplicate people in a crowd? These aren't real. Those are the work of Photoshop or Aviary. Michael Galpert shows us how to detect these fake images. For more reading on this check out eHow's article.... 5/19/09 Free View In iTunes

37 VideoBram Pitoyo on The Secret History of Fonts Ever think about where your favorite fonts are derived from? Well, Bram Pitoyo does. In this week's Episode of Ignite this self proclaimed "type nerd" tells us about the secret history of fonts from Helvetica to Arial many of them... 5/12/09 Free View In iTunes

38 VideoLisa Katayama Demystifies Japanese Gadgets and Toys Lisa Katayama is a tech journalist and an expert on Japanese culture. She combines the two in her Ignite talk this week where she demystifies Japanese gadgets and their society's fascination with them. You've probably read Lisa's writing before. She... 5/5/09 Free View In iTunes

39 VideoBrian Malow on Hydrogen and Helium Hydrogen and Helium are the most common (and lightest) elements in the universe. Science comedian Brian Malow tells their story from the Big Bang to the Helium capitol of the world in Texas. This was filmed at Ignite SF. This... 4/28/09 Free View In iTunes

40 VideoJonathan Kahan on Samurai Swords as Cutting Edge Technology A katana (commonly called a samurai sword) is a marvel of art and technology. In this week's Ignite Episode, Jonathan Kahan walks us through its creation and usage. This was filmed at Ignite NYC 3. This work is licensed under... 4/21/09 Free View In iTunes

41 VideoMonica Guzman on Being an Awesome News Commenter Much is made about how the news industry has to change because of the internet. Not as much is said about the other side of the coin: how we, the consumers, can change. Monica Guzman (@moniguzman), a reporter for the... 4/14/09 Free View In iTunes

42 VideoVanessa Holfeltz on Boiling Water in 5 Steps This week's Ignite episode starts with the simple premise that you are going to boil water. However we're going to attempt it via our own nuclear reactor. Using just 20 slides nuclear engineer Vanessa Holfeltz walks us through the... 4/7/09 Free View In iTunes

43 VideoIgnite: Molly Wright Steenson on It's Really Just a Series of Tubes In the 1800s cities used pneumatic tubes to transfer physical documents. Of course with the internet we no longer need these long tunnels, but that doesn't mean that they aren't fun to learn about how these old systems are similar... 3/31/09 Free View In iTunes

44 VideoIgnite: Dr. Jayson Falkner on DNA Science, It Works! Dr. Jayson Falkner explains the latest in DNA Science, how its effected human evolution and what it's doing to our society. The title is a tribute to the classic XKCD cartoon "Science! It Works....". The Ignite Show will feature a... 3/24/09 Free View In iTunes

45 VideoIgnite: Amber Case on Cyborg Anthroplogy Amber Case is a Cyber Anthropologist and studies how tech is changing our lives. In just five minutes, she runs through her research on the ever-expanding population of cyborgs. 3/17/09 Free View In iTunes

46 VideoIgnite: Andrew Schneider - Experimental Performance Devices This week's Ignite Show features Andrew Schneider, a performance artist, and his DIY experimental performance devices, but first a cupcake decorating contest. The cupcake decorating contest and Andrew's talk were filmed at Ignite NYC II. 3/9/09 Free View In iTunes

47 VideoIgnite Episode 3: Rob Gruhl: Buying a New Car without Getting Screwed This week's Ignite Show features Rob Gruhl. Rob loves to buy cars, but more than that he loves to bargain for cars. He shares his secrets today. This talk was filmed at Ignite Seattle III. 3/3/09 Free View In iTunes

48 VideoIgnite Show: Kati London on Botanicalls: Homegrown Terra-rists Today we are releasing "Botanicalls: Homegrown Terra-rists" the second episode of the Ignite Show. This week's speaker is Kati London, the co-creator of Botanicalls, a device that will let you know when your plant needs watering via Twitter. Kati doesn't spend much time explaining Botanicalls instead she talks about some fun(ny) uses for it. 2/24/09 Free View In iTunes

49 VideoIgnite Show: Jason Grigsby on Cup Noodle Today we are launching the first episode of the Ignite Show. The Ignite Show will feature a different speaker each week. This week's speaker is Jason Grigsby doing a talk that was originally performed at Ignite Portland. Jason takes fun look at how Cup Noodle was created and how the team had to embrace constraints and new ideas to create this new food. 2/19/09 Free View In iTunes

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inspiring!

by Steven D.

I love the idea of this project and so far the talks have been fascinating and engaging. It takes real talent to be able to create a consice and comprehensive presentation within five minutes. I look forward to future talks, and hope that different Ignite locations will be represented as well, especially those from outside the US. Well done!

Awesome community-generated event idea!

by My2Cents

O'Reilly Media really hit this idea out of the park -- of the handful of Ignite events I have been able to witness, each one meets exactly what O'Reilly and the event's 2 founders from Seattle intended: to showcase each town's community and bring residents to the forefront with concise presentations (on virtually any topic). It's a simple yet powerful presentation format. The latest I soaked in via a live webcast of the Bend, Oregon IGNITE (their 2nd thus far, with another scheduled in October). And the event really lives up to its name, as several towns around the world have started at least one in their community. Get one started in your town -- see what being neighbors means again, and all the while feeding your brain, too.

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