On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:51:55AM +0530, Madhu Menon wrote:
From what Amit tells me, TED speakers don't get paid anything.
Not even travel expenses and accomodation?
I'm assuming all that is taken care of. And they get
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:15:19PM +0530, Amit Varma wrote:
I'm assuming all that is taken care of. And they get generally five-star
treatment and TED goodie bags and all that. They just don't get a speaking
fee, AFAIK. But that is surely more than compensated by the quality of
epople you get
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
So it's a networking event, not a place to learn new things. I get it now.
It's supposed to be both -- and looking at the archive of TED Talks, I dare
say it generally is. I'm wondering, why so cynical, Eugen? You ever been
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:24:34PM +0530, Amit Varma wrote:
It's supposed to be both -- and looking at the archive of TED Talks, I dare
I haven't seen a lot of TED talks (mostly because I don't have the
time for talking heads, they don't seem to offer slides with
the transcript), but I haven't
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:24:34PM +0530, Amit Varma wrote:
Aside: I was at TED India as a Fellow, blogged about my impressions here:
http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/my-impressions-of-ted-india/
Thank you; I
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:37:06PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
The lack of condoms is typical of our hypocrisy
Indians are more prudish than Anglosaxon protestants?
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:37:06PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
The lack of condoms is typical of our hypocrisy
Indians are more prudish than Anglosaxon protestants?
ohYES. We wish to state that the population of our
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
So it's a networking event, not a place to learn new things. I get it now.
Isn't that what most conferences (and some un-conferences) are about?
Thaths
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
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ohYES. We wish to state that the population of our country is entirely due
to the activities of the stork, not the result of a lark, as one wag said!
So, how many storks does the list reckon will be visiting Brazil 9
controlled the number of drunks in poor neighborhoods, reduced the
crime rate, and restored family peace. Perhaps they should also
consider adding population control to that list.
Increase in domestic violence from fighting over the remote, or extreme
irritation at having to watch one too
i dare say out of the two, at least conferences are also about content
(apart from networking).
that's the thing u are meeting up for anyway! as for networking, it's more
like a by product
(albeit exciting enuff to attend an event for just that)
Unconferences are too bhagwaan bharose to be able
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