All the TED Talks

https://docs.google.com/a/keen.io/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsKzpC8gYBmTcGpHbFlILThBSzhmZkRhNm8yYllsWGc&hl=en#gid=0

by dorkitude • 14 years ago

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docs.google.com

calebhc• 14 years ago

Very cool!

kamjam• 14 years ago

At least it would be if the servers were not down. Would have thought Google would be able to manage traffic. Another fail like the Nexus 4 releases!

http://snag.gy/WbSye.jpg

dorkitude2• 14 years ago

Darn :(

Working for me still!

larimer• 14 years ago

We broke the Google! Found this through our SCAD Design Management grad student buds.. anyone know who owns it?

jakozaur• 14 years ago

Sharing Google Docs to large amount of ppl doesn't seems a best way of doing it. I seen it couple of times and usually there were some problems.

Are there any other lightweight tools of doing it? I could even imagine a new startup which create/provide tooling around Google Docs.

Some desired features:

- spreadsheet based

- better tags/search/filter for column

- fine grain permissions (proposing a change, ability just to add/modify your entry) - ...

dorkitude2• 14 years ago

Wow, this is messy!

sciencebum• 14 years ago

Holy crap this is awesome!

felipe• 14 years ago

Sarah Silverman's talk is not in the list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ci5p1OdVLAc

rauljara• 14 years ago

The Onion recently began parodying TED talks. This one is my favorite so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s .

The Onion parodies are definitely not entirely fair, but they do a good job of pointing out that a lot of TED talks are definitely more on the aspirational side of things. I've definitely seen a few TED talks where the speakers' abilities basically covered up the fact that they weren't actually saying anything. I was kind of heartened to see the onion parodies, because I had wondered if I was the only one whose bs detectors were going off.

This isn't to say you should be dismissive of TED talks out of hand, or that they're all crap, or anything. I actually think that if they didn't let a few bs-ers in it would be a sign that they weren't taking enough risks.

But it is important to keep in mind that some talks are little more than hand waving. And you definitely shouldn't automatically assume it's brilliant just because it has the TED brand behind it.

tokipin• 14 years ago

i more or less lost respect for TED a couple years ago

simonebrunozzi• 14 years ago

Me too, more or less. Sad.

freshhawk• 14 years ago

I think the social media Onion talk (http://youtu.be/CK62I-4cuSY) is the most relevant to HN (and my favourite).

You are definitely not the only one who's BS detector was going off. I find that TED has about the same number of good talks per year as it used to. And about 10 times more talks per year than it used to. That's not even counting the cesspool that TEDx has become.

MichaelAO• 14 years ago

Pretty cool! This reminds me of this TED talk...

Sebastian Wernicke: 1000 TED Talks, 6 words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3nEK1qSkA

xorgar831• 14 years ago

What about the talks from 1990 to 2005?

All the TED Talks

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