Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Ted talks...

These days, whenever I go to a talk/meeting, I see these features:
  1. They are completely unprepared.
  2. Don't respect the audience's time - "hey, i am on the stage" kind of talks.
  3. Have no theme or decision to convey.
  4. Randomly ramble or use keywords till you get irritated.
So naturally I am pretty happy to find some talks which violate all of these guidelines. These are among the best talks I have ever listened to. Wide range of speakers and it suprising how much they can convey in half hour. Here's the Ted talks link
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4 comments:

RK said...

I sympathize :-(

1:51 PM
RK said...

Dude, I'm totally blown away by the ted talks. Great link.

One question: what do you use to view the mp4 video's. As of now I am only able to use the audio, and as a result of that I am not able to get some fundas that are described while showing a visual.

3:20 PM
Kalyan said...

I just viewed them directly (streaming) instead of downloading.. Alternately, you could try finding them on google video and then downloading them in google video format...

11:03 AM
RK said...

Ok. Got it.

Back to the original crib about non-sensical meetings: It was all very nice to read and laugh about on www.joelonsoftware.com or www.paulgraham.com but I was in one such meeting today and man you have to experience it to realize how much it sucks.

2:46 PM

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