Re: has the time for an alternative to ted talk videos finally

2014-01-01 Thread Janos Sugar
/.../ So I ask the question: does TED epitomize a situation where if a scientist's work (or an artist's or philosopher's or activist's or whoever) is told that their work is not worthy of support, because the public doesn't feel good listening to them? /.../ Benjamin Bratton: We need to talk a

Re: has the time for an alternative to ted talk videos finally come?

2013-04-17 Thread mp
further to this: "TED Talks accused of censorship over Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake lectures": http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/technology-gadgets/ted-talks-accused-of-censorship-over-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake-lectures-29186941.html The War on Consciousness - Graham

Re: has the time for an alternative to ted talk videos finally come?

2013-04-08 Thread Mark Simpkins
I know the immediate reaction is to 'create' an alternative to the TED model, (videos from which I find useful but I think that the whole model is one of reductionism, simplification in communication and almost that sop of wortheyness 'oh look there is a TED video on the topic, someone is doing som

Re: has the time for an alternative to ted talk videos

2013-04-07 Thread olia lialina
let me share with you my favorite TED Talks playing list http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo0EnQWEtjZ4YpD2yKqF6mkypSv7OyWf5 please implement into your curricula On 04/06/2013 10:01 PM, Geert Lovink wrote: > http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/04/philosophical-moods.html > > http:

Re: has the time for an alternative to ted talk videos finally come?

2013-04-07 Thread Jon Lebkowsky
Don't we already have alternatives? This list, for instance, and salons, meetings, ongoing conversations, longer and more complex explorations, whole sprawling feasts compared to the TED fast-food approach. But perhaps we need something more visible and targeted, explicitly a response to the TED a

has the time for an alternative to ted talk videos finally come?

2013-04-07 Thread Geert Lovink
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/04/philosophical-moods.html http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2013/03/lets_save_great_ideas_from_the.html http://fandco.ca/en/trends/article/2013/03/ted-x-ideas-corrupting-ideas-1/ # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a m