This article has it right:
TED is no longer a responsible curator of ideas “worth spreading.” Instead it has become something ludicrous, and a little sinister.Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.”
Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.”
from: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna
― Poliopolice, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/ayman-alzawahiri-delivers-tedtalk-on-changing-face,31869/
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 31 March 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
The manliness thread introduced me to this guy's page:http://vimeo.com/jasonsilva
his bio is like napalm
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Many have called Silva an "Idea DJ" and a poet, describing him as "a re-vitalizer and remixer of optimism, and above all, a curator: of ideas, of inspiration, and of awe... like a trumpet player or modern-day digital Mingus, he jams, riffs and rhapsodizes through a tumbling thicket of ideas with such a sharp and vital alacrity that it can take the breath away."
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
I guess he really could go in the awesomeness fest bucket, too, but I think he's got different aspirations
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
He left the network to become, according to The Atlantic, "a part-time filmmaker and full-time walking, talking TEDTalk."
a lot of statehouses have been debating laws against this kind of thing lately
― j., Tuesday, 17 September 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
MANY have called him an idea dj??
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, according to that quote, many have described him as "a re-vitalizer and remixer of optimism, and above all, a curator: of ideas, of inspiration, and of awe... like a trumpet player or modern-day digital Mingus, he jams, riffs and rhapsodizes through a tumbling thicket of ideas with such a sharp and vital alacrity that it can take the breath away." There's really an incredible degree of consensus on this guy.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
But I mean based on this guy's bio he is actually reasonably well-known it sounds like?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
I know, you would think he wouldn't sound so desperate if he's actually done reasonable work, but apparently he's ramped it up to be a motivational speaker
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
never trust bios. especially bios of ppl whose job seems to be self-promoter
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Lovethesetrees
It's cool, just a wikipedia user that only ever edited a single page, nothing suspicious here
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/p9uEHzA.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
pictures of people who have figured out how to swindle
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
He has some innovative strategies to help you become sexually available.
― fake penthouse letters mcgee, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
"From YOUR point of view I'm oriented northwest to southeast.... but from MY point of view it's northeast to southwest! MAKES U THINK"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
can alacrity really be sharp
― j., Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
thing about him is, he still thinks inside the box.
― fake penthouse letters mcgee, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nowjzaq.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
My departmental yearly meeting kicked off with someone playing a TED talk and I was dying inside
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
WONDER
― Spectrum, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
only happens in that intersection of science and art
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know if anyone noticed but there's a little subliminal thing in the above image of him saying hi.
― fake penthouse letters mcgee, Thursday, 19 September 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
The NPR/TED radio hour is some amazing synergy, guys.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
synergism
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
It would be so awesome if he then lifted up his other hand and on the palm was written "YOU DIPSHIT"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 20 September 2013 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://i39.tinypic.com/wt7hhs.jpg
― fake penthouse letters mcgee, Friday, 20 September 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
this man is a hero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 11 October 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
i don't lol often but i have been rolling.
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 October 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
WE'RE GONNA KILL 'EM ALL!!!
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 11 October 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/13/ted_talks_are_lying_to_you/
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Sunday, 13 October 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Look on the other speakers' faces during the q&a is priceless
― goth drama is universal (latebloomer), Sunday, 13 October 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
:D
― imago, Sunday, 13 October 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
clover that thing has sharp knives watch out
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 13 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ptUVhs1UU
― imago, Sunday, 13 October 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/30/we-need-to-talk-about-ted
Let me tell you a story. I was at a presentation that a friend, an astrophysicist, gave to a potential donor. I thought the presentation was lucid and compelling (and I'm a professor of visual arts here at UC San Diego so at the end of the day, I know really nothing about astrophysics). After the talk the sponsor said to him, "you know what, I'm gonna pass because I just don't feel inspired ...you should be more like Malcolm Gladwell."
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 3 January 2014 06:13 (ten years ago) link
https://chronicle.com/article/The-New-Academic-Celebrity/145845/
― j., Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
:-/
― ryan, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
isn;t the whole point of this dumb shit to post the links on the internet?
i need to see a Spike Lee Ted Talk to research a piece i'm writing and its nowhere on the internet
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
oh, that's TEDx, or cargo cult fake TED
― a strange man (mh), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Quiz: North Korean Slogan or TED Talk Sound Bite?
only got 7 out of 14 : /
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
that's hilarious
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
www.ted.com - it's the next best thing to attending a university that actually brings in guest speakers
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 February 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
http://secondlanguage.blogspot.com/2014/08/academic-virtues.html
Perhaps the greatest academic virtue, that is, is patience. Too many academics today think of themselves as public intellectuals whose job it is to "spread ideas" through the most efficient media available to them. Such academics are, literally, ideologues; they think universities produce and distribute ideas. What universities really "produce", friends, is more articulate and knowledgeable students. People who are less likely to be immediately impressed by a TED talk, in fact, because they have a higher standard of belief.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 February 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Want to talk about this:
http://www.theawl.com/2014/01/what-if-these-seven-famous-ted-talks-are-just-totally-wrong
― cardamon, Saturday, 21 February 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Friday, 10 June 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link