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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Feb 9
This may just be the best TED Talk video I've seen: listen.com/Rhapsody founder and extremely funny person (and soon-to-be debut science fiction author) Rob Reid examines the math behind the claims made by the copyright lobby and explains the mindbending awesomeness of the sums used to justify SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and the like. Here's Ars Technica's Ken Fisher discussing Reid's philosophy: Reid’s goal was to capture and represent some of the rhetoric from that past decade and a half in a way that would fill the hall with laughter, even if some of it came at the expense of some clearly ridiculous industry arguments.
Copyright Math: the best TED Talk you'll watch all year
TED Talks joins Netflix's stable of streaming content
Netflix is on an unrelenting hunt for new content, and is snatching up partners wherever it can. The latest additions to the service's library of content are the popular TED Talks, which are available on Netflix right now in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, UK and Ireland. Netlfix, however, won't be presenting the content in three or even fifteen minute bursts. Instead, the service plans to group the talks in two-hour blocks according to their general themes - space, nature, sex, etc. Fourteen shows hit Netflix in the first batch, with Netflix planning to add more as time goes on.
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TED-Ed YouTube channel launched: educating the world one video at a time
The non-profit foundation behind the enlightening TED conferences has launched a YouTube education channel called TED-Ed. Consisting of animated videos less than 10 minutes long, the channel is an "invitation to teachers around the world to submit their best lessons." After an entry has been accepted, staff will work with the teacher involved to compress and refine the information.
About TED
The two annual TED conferences, on the North American West Coast and in Edinburgh, Scotland, bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less). On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free . More than 1400 TED Talks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license , so they can be freely shared and reposted.
TEDxBroadway January 28th, 2012 TEDxBroadway returned for its second event, with a whole new cast of luminaries from on and off the famous New York stage. Audiences watched as social media expert Randi Zuckerberg, Disney Theatrical Group President Thomas Schumacher, actor George Takei, Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout, and many others came together to share ideas on how to make Broadway -- the area and the industry -- the best it can be. Learn more about this event » Image via PatchWork PR TEDxAIMS January 20th, 2012 Held at The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), TEDxAIMS explored ways to navigate the ideas of the future, starting with ones coming to rise in their hometown of Cape Town.
TEDx: Independently organized TED events
TEDxBerkeley 2012