TEDTalks has been awesome for a long time. I don’t know when it started exactly, but I’ve never seen a really bad one. Some are interesting, and educational, and those are the weak ones. Others are totally mind-blowing.
Just in case youwant to build your own tractor, or windmill
In the past couple of weeks, they have gotten a lot more interactive as the Huffington Juggernaut has hitched itself on to that wagon. There’s the TEDTalks video of the weekend, a couple of blogs in response to it, links to other TEDTalks (this can get to be a bit confusing), and the comments sections, of course.
I like the concept, so I am going to dedicate one day a week, unless I get bored or change my mind, just to that. Since they do it on the weekends (Hence the catchy name, TEDWeekends), my TEDBlog will also appear on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, depending on what news or other interesting things are going on in my life.
Of course, this is strictly for the purpose of blogwhoring, participating in an elevated discussion and adding my voice to those greater than my own with the hope of ultimately discovering and/or leading to a better world.
This weekend’s centerpiece was this little gem of mind blowing beauty. I’m not quite as convinced as it’s creator that crosses a psychic threshold, but it sure is a nice idea, and a new one, and one which will be tried again and again in many genres, and may very well be the future of music, even if it doesn’t actually imbue the noosphere with a soul. That’s awesomeness enough for one video.
I also watched a short video by some Polish guy who thinks that by disseminating, for free, the instructions to make 50 different machines, from a bread oven to a brick press, he can free mankind from the money monopolists. I think he might appeal mostly to survivalist groups and a few extreme DIY types, but’s it’s also a nice idea and I wish him a lot of luck. Actually, it provides something closer to a practical solution to the world’s problems than the music video, but it wasn’t as beautiful.
Both of them, though, stand as proof that the internet can be the information highway, the global marketplace of ideas which we were promised, rather than the digital sewer which it has become.
I’ve got nothing against Kitty Cats and Porn, but the internet has so much more to offer and I’m glad we’re beginning to see it.
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