Social Entrepreneurship: A Risky Business?

Turnstyle on Wednesday, Jun. 20th

Recently, the Dell Social Innovation Challenge announced the winner of the penultimate competition for young social entrepreneurs.

Suzi Sosa is the executive director of the Challenge. Independent producer Deepa Donde (with sound engineer Duane Allen Humeyestewa)  spoke with Sosa about her belief that entrepreneurship is possible for all kinds of people,  and is the solution to the world’s biggest problems.

(Disclosure: Donde has been both a board member and a judge for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge).

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Hangout w/Jesse Vigil, Game Designer [Freeq]

Now streaming: the archive of our Google Hangout On-Air with Jesse Vigil of Psychic Bunny, one of the designers of the new audio adventure game FREEQ (iOS/Android).

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Watch This: To The Last, Dir. Matt Luck

We’ve featured dancer Matt Luck’s work before.

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Sifteo Cubes: Blurring the Edges of Play

I first encountered Sifteo Cubes back at IndieCade last October, and spent some time playing around with the little blocks which I first mistook for iPod Nanos.

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Lighting Is An Underestimated Art

Over the weekend I was having a conversation about the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum that’s been announced.

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THE WEEKENDER: PRESENT SHOCK

I’m going to go out on a limb here and promise you that this will be the first of two posts on Present Shock, the Douglas Rushkoff book that has been getting a mountain of attention in the tech press since it was released earlier this month.

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