My apologies to the kind folks at custom T-shirt shop Springleap.com – they were generous enough to nominate me for their first ‘blogger face-off’ with Dave Duarte and sent me some T’s after the fact (even though I lost apparently my T design is quite popular) – and it’s taken me forever to write about [...]
It doesn’t matter who you are – if you haven’t yet gorged yourself on the veritable goldmine of inspiration that is the collection of videos of talks presented at TED conferences and freely available at TED.com, you’ve either been hiding under a rock or you need better friends.
For those of you who don’t know yet, this is how the TED site describes the TED phenomenon…
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
So as usual I’m the last person to get around to posting that our little project has grown up again. But then again I’m the only person who really works for a living :P
Charl Norman scooped the launch announcement this morning, and Justin updated the Afrigator blog with a list of cool features the new version boasts.
