Wednesday, August 02, 2006

TED talks

It just so happens that my roommate introduced me to Ted last night. Err...a guy introducing his room-mate to another guy ?? The 'Kanta-ben' effect ?

Certainly NOT !!!

No need for those eyebrows to go up now.. TED stands for Technology Entertainment and Design. It is a 4 day conference held every year at Monterey, California where more than 1000 people from diverse backgrounds come together to exchange new, exciting and challenging ideas in their respective fields.

What is even more exciting (especially for folks like me who have a. broadband connection; b. loads of free time) are the various videos that you can either view or download from the TED website itself. Or else, you could simply search for the videos on Google Videos too. (Have thus far been unsuccessful in finding TED videos on YouTube)

Some of the interesting videos that I have seen are:

a. Sir Ken Robinson (author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative) speaks about innovation and creativity that we knew as kids but have been 'educated' out of.

b. Majora Carter (founder of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization dedicated to holistic community development) Boy, does she speak passionately! Superb video.

c. David Pogue (personal technology columnist for The New York Times) delivers a hillarious view of the technical world and absence of simplicity. Even if you're a non-tech guy, just watch it for David's fabulous (self-made?) renditions of short songs about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. He's brilliant.

Do try viewing the videos on the TED website itself; the streaming seems to be fast enough for you to enjoy a number of videos, including the ones I mentioned above.

5 comments:

shweta said...

hey i tried downloading ..ahem
nd well the disastrous time..
smething or the other was happening ..
1.my cousin walks down ..nd thinking the comp was switched off when only the monitor was.... switches the booting button on ..
2.then the gr8 electricity board thinks it best to go for a power cut ..while i am in the middle of a download
3.my sister uses the comp while the downloading ws gng on ...she accidentaly switches off all the windows including...ahem ....

BAD LUCK ...
now i am seriously thinking of not downloading ..
no pnt ..sme or the other person ..cmng nd dsirupting...
newayz ...did catch up wth bits nd pieces streaming in the window ...
nd really wanna catch up wth the full
but i am not trying atleast for a while...!!!

Shekhar said...

shweta Ha ha. Oye...koi nahi, hota hai. But do watch them whenever u think the Net Gods are happy...the videos are fun to watch.

Shekhar said...

steve dahlberg: Hey, thanks for commenting on my blog. I will surely look up whether this book is available in my library, and if not, will sure try to have it purchased.

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