Comments on: TED talks, give it a listen.

TED talks, give it a listen.

sixacross — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:23:59 -0800

TED talks is a collection of presentations given at the most recent installment of the annual convention of leading technologists, entertainers, and designers (prev iously). 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

By: sixacross

sixacross — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:26:22 -0800

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.

By: NotMyselfRightNow

NotMyselfRightNow — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:43:37 -0800

This is great. Thanks!

By: TheDonF

TheDonF — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:01:43 -0800

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.

By: rongorongo

rongorongo — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:36:11 -0800

Gar Reynolds' analysis of these talks at Presentation Zen is also well worth the read.

By: TheDonF

TheDonF — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:21:37 -0800

@rongorongo: cheers - I read Garr's site but must have missed that post. Nice one.

By: argybarg

argybarg — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:09:15 -0800

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.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:23:22 -0800

Nice site, I had mentioned it here.

By: sixacross

sixacross — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:16:19 -0800

argybarg -- yeah, that was the one. Sorry about that.