I just learned about this cool website: www.ted.com. TED is an organization that asks famous/interesting people to give 20-minute speeches and records them. Now, on their website, you can watch speeches that they’ve collected over the last 24 years. A lot of this content is probably available on YouTube, but the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher on TED because of the limited format and the high barrier to entry.
This morning, I watched a talk by J.J. Abrams, and yesterday I watched a theramin concert and a speech on aging by Aubrey de Grey (whom I’ve read about, but had never seen before). If you have twenty minutes to spare, you should check it out.
March 16, 2008 at 5:30 pm
mike! you have a blog! I didn’t know! I’ve started using google reader to check blogs and news, and I’ve been looking for good blogs to read online! I’ll add yours to my reader!
May 4, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I commented on your about page, but I think I just realized we had a music class together…
July 28, 2008 at 12:46 am
hey! i didn’t know you had a blog (or nicola), but kudos for kendall for linking to y’all. but seems like you haven’t updated in a while… cos it was a while ago that you told me about the theramin video on the site. ted.com is a great site!! >^..^<