Comments on: Rebooting: Bill Gates

By: Consider IT pure joy… » Gates releases more bugs - with a very serious message.

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:35 +0000

[...] of raising the profile of malaria when he released mosquitoes at the TED conference – take a look here for a detailed report from Ethan Zuckermann [...]

By: more bugs from microsoft: bill gates releases mosquitoes at ted 2009 conference

more bugs from microsoft: bill gates releases mosquitoes at ted 2009 conference — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:12:27 +0000

[...] [also via Ethan Zuckerman's blog] [...]

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:03:10 +0000

I didn’t realize that Bill Gates was such a moron. Of course we “experience mosquitoes.” I remember being swarmed by them while walking in the Everglades — not fun — and having them pester me on camping trips. A Nopheles has it right: malaria is the problem. Now if Gates had released malaria-infected mosquitoes into that room, he’d really be making his point.

Fortunately, he’s apparently not THAT stupid.

By: TED2009 minutes from Ethan Zuckerman: On Bill Gates : Osservatorio Meeting Point

TED2009 minutes from Ethan Zuckerman: On Bill Gates : Osservatorio Meeting Point — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:03:36 +0000

[...] Ethan Zuckerman is liveblogging TED2009. Here’s a snippet from his recent musings: [...]

By: katrinah

katrinah — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:03:28 +0000

Hi Ethan: thank you for your great coverage of Bill Gates’ talk at TED. It is so good to know that education in the U.S. was one of the main topics Gates spoke of at TED. I read last year about the U.S. dropout rate being 30-50% and was shocked. I’ve since learned that educational opportunities in some places are so poor that kids are essentially being ‘trained for prison’. I’m glad the Gates Foundation has made education a top priority. I wonder if friends at TED will create a project around education as well? Thanks again for your post.

By: Daughter of the Ring of Fire » Blog Archive » The Meaning of Bill Gates’ Mosquitoes

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:40:18 +0000

[...] home page to learn more about my writing.I chuckled when I first heard about Bill Gates releasing mosquitoes into the crowd at TED, but to investigate the meaning of the act deeper than that requires [...]

By: A Nopheles

A Nopheles — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:46:12 +0000

Why would a man like Bill Gates, reportedly intelligent, think that most people in the audience had not experienced a swarm of mosquitoes? Washington State may not have a lot of them but many eople in the US have more than enough experience of them. Mosquitoes are not the problem. Malaria is.

By: TED中国粉丝团 » 2009TED大会专题 » 比尔·盖茨：重启非洲

TED中国粉丝团 » 2009TED大会专题 » 比尔·盖茨：重启非洲 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:17:54 +0000

[...] TED2009第一天的主题是“重启”（Rebooting），比尔·盖茨应邀到场发表了一个演讲，以下是该演讲的一个简述，编译自伊凡·佐克曼（Ethan Zuckerman）的博客： [...]

By: Georgina

Georgina — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:01:20 +0000

Hi Ethan,

I’m a reporter with Australian newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald.

I filed this morning on Bill Gates’s mosquito stunt and wondered if you had anything to add on it? How the audience reacted, how many mozzies there were, etc.

Here’s the story we’re running:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/bill-gates-releases-mosquitoes-on-crowd/2009/02/05/1233423356135.html

Please email me if you have the time.

Cheers,
Georgie