Cameron Sinclair is the 2006 TED Prize winner and co-founder (and “Chief Eternal Optimist”) of Architecture for Humanity (@archforhumanity) and the Open Architecture Network, a non-profit that seeks architecture solutions to global crises.

Hundreds of projects are available on the Open Architecture Network and are all licensed with a Creative Commons licence – eg “Adaptable Hillside Classrooms”.

Each project contains a workspace, team profiles, project updates and access to related files that aims to offer open source architectural plans and blueprints on the web.

This year the anti-TED movement seems to have geared up a level with criticism coming right, left and centre with TechCrunch seeming to lead the way…

I like TED (@TEDtalks).

I like how all the TED talks are distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

I like the annual TED conference where attendees gather for a “brain spa” and a number of those talks are subsequently used for various follow-on campaigns, eg:

• Al Gore on averting climate crisis
• Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web which proved a helpful reference point to establishing http://data.gov.uk/ and
• Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food which I think that we will be seeing a lot more of this year.

I like TEDx where local communities such as schools, businesses, libraries, neighbourhoods or just groups of friends to organize, design and host their own independent, TED-like events .

Is TED elitist?, “yes, (in a good way), but also no”

An excellent sub 15 minute video by David S Rose on How to Pitch to a VC

This is an excellent sub 15 minute presentation by David S Rose (http://www.rose.vc/) on “How to Pitch to a VC” as delivered at TED in 2007.

This TEDx Dubai 2009 talk by Joi Ito is a great introduction to the technical and legal stack underpinning and driving innovation in open networks with a focus on how sharing changes things.

Using Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer to present Gigapixel images via the web.