TEDxPhoenixChange

If you missed TEDxPhoenixChange on April 7, the event's organizers have good news -- you can catch up with the ideas shared and questions explored online.

The four talks, given by Amy Scerra, Bob Beard, Chell Robert, and Safwat Saleem aimed to disrupt the community (in a good way) and get people to talk about their ideas, projects, hypotheses, and challenges for Phoenix.

See also:
- Greetings from Nowhere: Safwat Saleem's Letterpress Holiday Cards
- TEDxPhoenixChange Talks Geek Culture, Business Growth, and Community Activism

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The Rothko via knowyourmeme.com

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a case that will decide whether California's Prop 8 (stating marriage can only be between a woman and a man) is constitutional. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in United States v. Windsor, a case that will determine the course for the Defense of Marriage Act.

And while they're likely busy debating in the courtroom, we've made ourselves useful changing profile pictures, showing support for all of our friends, and, of course, spreading equality memes across the Internet. Here are a few of our favorites:

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- Our Nine Favorite Faces of Tardar Sauce, The Grumpy Cat from Arizona
- George Takei Reads Fifty Shades of Grey (VIDEO)

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Brand new versions of the Phoenix New Times apps are now available on iTunes and Google Play. The apps are loaded with new features. Check 'em out and download them now.

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Tommy Edison has been blind since birth and is currently on a mission to describe his experiences through narrative and video.

He's explained how he uses an ATM, how he describes colors, and how the blind can organize and keep track of their money. He's also reviewed a number of boxoffice flicks as "the Blind Film Critic."

This week, Edison showed his audience how he uses Instagram.

See also:
- Nine Things You Can Stop Posting on Instagram. Right Now.
- Five Photo Manipulation Apps for iPhone/iPad
- Nine Favorite Photography Resources in Metro Phoenix

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After the announcement of Instagram's New Use agreement this week, users took to their blogs, Facebook feeds, Twitter accounts, Pinterest pages, and even Instagram albums to blast the company for a few lines that would enable the licensing and sale of photos.

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom responded this afternoon with a concession or two, and a reassurance that Instagram would not be selling its users photos, but would

"'I'm writing this today to let you know we're listening and to commit to you that we will be doing more to answer your questions, fix any mistakes, and eliminate the confusion. As we review your feedback and stories in the press, we're going to modify specific parts of the terms to make it more clear what will happen with your photos."

See also:
- Where the F#*k Do I Post This? (A Social Media Flowchart)
- Nine Things You Can Stop Posting on Instagram. Right Now.

- Five Reasons Why You Should Really Calm Down about the "New" Facebook News Feed

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Come January, Instagram's army of shutterbug users and their eye candy photos could mean big bucks for the social media app.

Under the new policy that goes into effect January 17, Instagram (now owned by Facebook) will claim the right to license and sell all photos uploaded to the app to companies and organizations for advertising purposes.

Yes, that means if you continue to use Instagram, you could effectively be a stock photographer -- who works for free.

See also:
- Where the F#*k Do I Post This? (A Social Media Flowchart)
- Nine Things You Can Stop Posting on Instagram. Right Now.

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Laurie Notaro is an author, crafter, and expert at finding a good cocktail. She grew up in Phoenix, but is currently based in Eugene, Oregon. Each week, she'll be joining us to share a crafting adventure, draw a flowchart, or remember a few of her favorite things about Phoenix. Today, she shares her adventures on Yelp, which include fighting with members of the "elite" and being accused of not existing.

All I really wanted to do was order a pizza.

That's all I wanted to do.

I didn't want to get into a sparring match with anonymous Internet assholes, I didn't want to argue about libel laws and I certainly didn't want to enter a debate concerning my entire existence.

Then again, that's what happens when you enter the arena of Roman-inspired public games called Yelp, and before you know it people who only venture outside to go someplace and then come right back to review it are calling for your head on a flagpole.

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Laurie Notaro is an author, crafter, and expert at finding a good cocktail. She grew up in Phoenix, but is currently based in Eugene, Oregon. Each week, she'll be joining us to share a crafting adventure, draw a flowchart, or remember a few of her favorite things about Phoenix. Today, she shares her reaction to a friend's event on Facebook, to which she was not invited.

I wasn't on the invitation list.

I checked twice, three times. I was sure that I was just so used to seeing me that I had skipped it out of habit. The list was long, full of faces that I knew. A long line of faces that had eaten party food at my house and had pulled a beer I had paid for out of a cooler on my back porch.

And on this long list of Facebook invitees for a birthday of someone I considered a very good friend, mine wasn't one of them.

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Ah l'amour. It seems that finding true love is not as cut and dry and Disney and Hallmark would have led us to believe.

Fortunately, there's an online dating site for almost anyone nowadays, including a few we never would have considered (or believed). Here are some of the oddest online dating sties the World Wide Web has to offer.

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As followers of the social media flowchart, we've embraced photo-sharing iPhone and Android app, Instagram.

Yes, we've shared photos our weekend reading lists, our street art sightings, our field trips to letterpress studios, and our dog in Easter bunny ears.

But it's time to come clean about a few things -- specifically nine -- that our Instagram feeds would be better without.

9. Your Facebook Feed
Since Facebook announced it will be purchasing Instagram for pocket change ($1 billion), it has also fought rumors that the two will somehow be joined in holy time-wasting matrimony.

But what's perhaps worse and far stranger than hooking up your instagram to feed through your Facebook is to take screenshots of your Facebook and feed them through your instagram (on then through your Facebook page). Let the inception games begin...

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