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• Chris Anderson – March 3 2006

  Well, if you'd really read them, you wouldn't demonstrate such a misunderstanding of TED. For one thing, we're doing an entire conference in Africa next year... ...but the bigger point is that TED is not about being pollitically correct... it's about ideas big enough to change the world ...just wherever we can find them.

• JL – March 3 2006

  I have been happily reading TED2006 blog and website when I realized there´s absolutely no speaker from Latin America. Or Africa (the "Children of Uganda" didn´t say anything, did them?). This is so sad and arrogant. And old. Shame on you.

• Stuart Balcomb – March 3 2006

  In February 2005, Canadian photo-artist Edward Burtynsky accepted the inaugural TED Prize -- three wishes to change the world. Granted $100,000 and the opportunity to team with several major companies pledging to help the recipients fulfill the wishes, Burtynsky and fellow winners (acclaimed musician and Global Activist Bono and medical technologies pioneer Robert Fischell) were instructed to wish for anything -- "Think big. Be Creative. No restrictions."
  
  
  
  In his first wish, Burtynsky proposed that he would use his artwork to persuade millions of people to join a productive global conversation about sustainability. TheScreamOnline is proud to grant this wish by featuring a compelling gallery of his photography to our vast community of readers around the world.
  
  
  
  http://www.thescreamonline.com/photo/photo6-1/burtynsky/index.html

• Jack Coleman – February 25 2006

  Just coming to this for the first time, but enjoying it very much. Wish I'd known of it sooner.