TED talks, give it a listen.

August 3, 2006 4:23 AM

TED talksis a collection of presentations given at the most recent installment of the annual convention of leading technologists, entertainers, and designers (previously). From the $100 laptop to the eradication of smallpoxto new ways of visualizing data and a charming and humorous look at education, there's a lot to chew on and more to come. Inspired yet? here's some more reading material. via
posted by sixacross (8 comments total)

The previous post on Hans Rosling pointed people towards the series, but I missed it the first time and the content has doubled since then. This was some of the coolest stuff I had seen online in a while, so I thought it warrented a new post.
posted by sixacross at 4:26 AM on August 3, 2006

This is great. Thanks!
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 4:43 AM on August 3, 2006

Cool, I stumbled across these yesterday after reading a post on Creating Passionate Users. The Al Gore one is worth watching - it's mainly on his current Climate Crisis campaign.
posted by TheDonF at 6:01 AM on August 3, 2006

Gar Reynolds' analysis of these talks at Presentation Zen is also well worth the read.
posted by rongorongo at 7:36 AM on August 3, 2006

@rongorongo: cheers - I read Garr's site but must have missed that post. Nice one.
posted by TheDonF at 8:21 AM on August 3, 2006

I wonder if the humorous take on education you meant to refer to was this one.

Even if not, it's well worth a watch/listen.
posted by argybarg at 1:09 PM on August 3, 2006

Nice site, I had mentioned it here.
posted by tellurian at 4:23 PM on August 3, 2006

argybarg -- yeah, that was the one. Sorry about that.
posted by sixacross at 5:16 PM on August 3, 2006