31/07: Top of the Lists
Ohh! The wealth of the web!
These are two top "tops" that may interest you.
Check out TED's 7.5 minutes video of snippits from its all-time Top Ten Videos.
They may amuse, intrigue and inform - or, at the very least, stimulate.
You may not have met TED before. Let me introduce you.
Launched in April 2007, Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED), has as its mission to spread ideas and provide access to free knowledge or, as they say, to "ideas worth spreading"
As a consequence, TED invites the gifted and often inspired to speak at their annual four day conference (sold out well in advance!) in Long Beach, CA. TED has expanded well past their original themes, now including commentary on business, science, arts and global issues. Thinkers, entertainers, teachers and doers are encouraged to give "the talk of their lives" - in18 minutes max.
In keeping with its mission, TED wants these ideas shared and discussed - hence TedTalks.
And now, as of June 2008, they have compiled TED's best! an enticer to explore their Top Ten TEDTalks.
I invite you to exercise your mind.
Not the top 10, but rather 70!
These are "The 70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube".
Bemoaning the difficulty of finding educational and thought provoking video on YouTube, Open Culture, "your guide to smart media" has complied a list of its own. They include quick links to BBC, PBS, The New York Times, The Nobel Prize, TEDTalks, the World Bank, Al Jazeera English, (although the link was down when I tried), and many more for a total of 70. Encouraging, don't you think?
And now, as a further refinement, this blog has more recently gathered 10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (Smart Video Collections)
Annotations are provided for such sites as UCBerkley (where you can watch complete university courses), @GoogleTalks, Philosophers and Thinkers, UChannel (from Princeton) and again TEDTalks and The Nobel Prize.
Helpful and need I say, thought-provoking!
These are two top "tops" that may interest you.
Check out TED's 7.5 minutes video of snippits from its all-time Top Ten Videos.
They may amuse, intrigue and inform - or, at the very least, stimulate.
You may not have met TED before. Let me introduce you.
Launched in April 2007, Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED), has as its mission to spread ideas and provide access to free knowledge or, as they say, to "ideas worth spreading"
As a consequence, TED invites the gifted and often inspired to speak at their annual four day conference (sold out well in advance!) in Long Beach, CA. TED has expanded well past their original themes, now including commentary on business, science, arts and global issues. Thinkers, entertainers, teachers and doers are encouraged to give "the talk of their lives" - in18 minutes max.
In keeping with its mission, TED wants these ideas shared and discussed - hence TedTalks.
And now, as of June 2008, they have compiled TED's best! an enticer to explore their Top Ten TEDTalks.
I invite you to exercise your mind.
Not the top 10, but rather 70!
These are "The 70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube".
Bemoaning the difficulty of finding educational and thought provoking video on YouTube, Open Culture, "your guide to smart media" has complied a list of its own. They include quick links to BBC, PBS, The New York Times, The Nobel Prize, TEDTalks, the World Bank, Al Jazeera English, (although the link was down when I tried), and many more for a total of 70. Encouraging, don't you think?
And now, as a further refinement, this blog has more recently gathered 10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (Smart Video Collections)
Annotations are provided for such sites as UCBerkley (where you can watch complete university courses), @GoogleTalks, Philosophers and Thinkers, UChannel (from Princeton) and again TEDTalks and The Nobel Prize.
Helpful and need I say, thought-provoking!
