Last week, while seeing a favorite band, I couldn’t help but notice the sea of undulating phones around me. With my view partially obstructed by shoulders, I found my eyes constantly settling onto the glowing screen of the guy in front of me, who was recording each and every song. The screen allowed me to see clearly, and yet it seemed a strange mediation of a moment that is all about the present. Yes, by recording the full show, you get to watch it later. But what did you really experience in the first place?

Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattooMeanwhile, the group standing beside me at this concert had faces flushed from a little too much alcohol. They had their phones out too, the flashes going off periodically as they snapped shot after shot — arms excitedly slinging around each other. As soon as a photo was taken, they’d lean into the capturing phone and laugh as its owner typed out a message and posted it on Facebook. Was the liquor-soaked moment really one they wanted to share with everyone, co-workers included?

Both today’s talk, “Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo,” and today’s new TED Book from Damon Brown, Our Virtual Shadow: Why We Are Obsessed with Documenting Our Lives Online, take reflective looks at the nuances of what it means to have an online record of life. In his talk, Enriquez classifies social media fragments as “digital tattoos,” while Brown characterizes this mediated life as our “virtual shadow.”

Which concept meshes more with your view of our digital lives? Here, a deeper look at the two concepts.

What are they?

Digital tattoos:

“Tattoos really do shout,” says Enriquez in his talk. “What if Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, cell phones, GPS, FourSquare, Yelp, Travel Advisor — all these things you deal with every day — turn out to be electronic tattoos? And what if they provide as much information about who and what you are as any tattoo ever would?”

Virtual shadow:

As Brown writes in his book, “More than ever, we’re now focused on documenting and building the history of our lives, not on living the life unfolding right in front of us. It’s all about the check-in, the status update, the captured moment, rather than being fully present day to day. We’re each focused on what I call our virtual shadow: a collected narrative that, like a physical shadow, is symbolic of where our real selves have been, albeit a few steps behind.”

Is this a brand-new problem? Nope:

Digital tattoos:

“The Greeks thought about what happens when Gods, humans and immortality mix for a long time,” Enriquez says in the talk. “Lesson #1: Sisyphus. He did a horrible thing and was condemned for all time to roll this rock up — and it would roll back down. It’s a little like your reputation. Once you get that electronic tattoo, you’re going to be rolling up and down for a long time.”

Virtual shadow:

“Socrates had as much trouble with then-new technologies as we do with modern tech. Words were meant to be spoken, Socrates believed, rather than written down,” Brown tells the TED Blog. In his book, he adds, “[It's] the same conflict humans have had throughout time: how do we successfully capture a potentially significant moment? It is the prehistoric caveman making images on the wall, the elementary-school class creating a time capsule, every man in an army platoon getting the same tattoo right before a battle.”

What’s the most disconcerting new technology out there?

Digital tattoos:

Says Enriquez, “Facial recognition is getting really good … Companies like Face.com now have about 18 billion faces online.”

Virtual shadow:

Writes Brown, “Google Glass can take pictures and video, check your email, text your friends, and surf the web — in short, it can record your whole life … Google claimed that they weren’t built for everyday use, but I doubt Apple planned on people texting while walking, either.”

How do we escape the grip our online lives have over us?

Digital tattoos:

Enriquez tells us, “Be cautious when faced with the choice of doing something boneheaded on Twitter or Facebook. Give it 12 hours.”

Virtual Shadow:

Brown writes, “The best way to separate mundane short-term memories from important long-term memories is to simply be as present as possible … The more aware you are of your surroundings, the more your brain can create a cohesive, solid memory. A rich memory — for instance, making love for the first time — isn’t created by an isolated sensation, like a gentle touch or the smell of a cologne, but from the collecting and connecting of all those inputs into one unforgettable multisensory experience. The brain doesn’t need better tools; it just needs us to be as present as possible when things are actually happening.”

How do photos and video play into this?

Digital tattoos:

“People don’t understand how quickly this has changed,” Enriquez tells the TED Blog. “There weren’t a lot of videos of September 11, because it was a pain in the rear to take video on 9/11. You needed a large camera and battery pack – you had to set up the camera. Now every one of us carries HD in our pockets … HD video is so simple, cheap and easy to use that it can affect a presidential campaign, like what happened with Romney.” He adds, “This 24-second news cycle, where a presidential candidate says something stupid on air and, ‘Gotcha!,’ is now beginning to apply to other people’s lives.”

Virtual shadow:

Brown writes in the book, “My favorite uncle shared some good news: He had pictures — hundreds of pictures — from our wedding day. He’d gotten some gorgeous shots, he said, and he couldn’t wait to send them to us. He also told me that he couldn’t wait to get the official video, since he’d been distracted and missed a lot. He was excited to watch a recap of what had happened while he was busy trying to capture the beautiful moments as they were actually happening.”

Is there potential for good with social media?

Digital tattoos:

“The really neat thing is that this is exactly the kind of stuff that allows a group like TED to be so successful and spread ideas,” Enriquez tells us. “And that allows Twitter to spread ideas in a very powerful way — to take on governments, take on bad officials, expose corruption, start movements, do Kickstarter. I’m not arguing [social media] shouldn’t exist. I’m saying that precisely because this stuff is so powerful, we should be careful.”

Virtual shadow:

“There is definitely much good that comes from social media. I’m a huge Twitter fan …. I think we just need to ask the same question we do with other activities: Is this affecting my quality of life?” he says to the TED Blog. “Saying technology is making us less attentive is a copout. Technology has always been an issue for us, whether it was a child in the ’50s watching too much TV or a caveman playing with a new discovery called fire. Like our ancestors, what we really need to do is find a smart way to integrate our newfound technology into our lives.”

So where do you stand, do you feel like the bits and pieces of you online are your digital tattoos, or that they comprise your virtual shadow? Or perhaps a little bit of both?

Watch Juan Enriquez’s TED Talk on digital tattoos »

Read Damon Brown’s TED Book about virtual shadows »

The morning of our wedding, my wife and I only had one major discussion: Should we bring our cell phones? She loved Facebook as much as I loved Twitter, and since we’ve lived and made friends all across the country, the social networks made it easier to stay connected to our loved ones far away. We wanted those who couldn’t make it to the wedding to feel connected, too. But we decided to put the smartphones away. Our decision turned out to be the right one: I can honestly still remember every single moment of the ceremony. I was fully present.

A few months later, my favorite uncle shared some good news: He had pictures — hundreds of pictures — from our wedding day. He’d gotten some gorgeous shots, he said, and he couldn’t wait to send them to us. He also told me that he couldn’t wait to get the official video, since he’d been distracted and missed a lot. He was excited to watch a recap of what had happened because he had been busy trying to capture the beautiful moments as they were actually happening.

At this point, the discussion usually veers into our overly plugged-in society — the subsidized cell phone industry makes photo-ready smartphones really cheap, the prevalence of phones encourages everyone to take more pictures, our phones encourage us to use them every time they buzz, etc. But let’s throw that red herring back into the digital river. Our need to capture our memories certainly didn’t start with Instagram.

The decisions I, my wife, and my uncle faced are part of the same conflict humans have had throughout time: how do we capture and save a potentially significant moment? It is the prehistoric caveman making images on the wall, the elementary-school class creating a time capsule, every man in an army platoon getting the same tattoo right before a battle. Each moldy Polaroid, FourSquare check-in, and uploaded YouTube video creates a breadcrumb trail back through our lives. We want these archives, whether digital or physical, to point back to the very real experience we had, or, just as importantly, to give us insight into someone else’s experience. Silicon Valley tech culture expert Paul Philleo calls these mementos anchors of memory.

If you picture all the experiences in our lifetimes as drops in the ocean, anchors of memory are those manmade landmarks reminding us that something of note is located there. Without them, we risk forgetting our most important moments in a sea of mundane recollections. For instance, the first time you visit the Statue of Liberty, you may create an anchor of memory that is physical, like writing a passage in your diary, or an anchor of memory that is virtual, like checking into the location on an app. The physical anchor of memory takes up physical space and requires physical maintenance: keeping your diary dry, finding a safe place to store it, etc. A virtual anchor of memory takes up virtual space and requires time maintenance: making sure your account is active, managing relationships on the check-in service, etc. The physical anchors of memory represent the stuff we make the space to own, which constitute our possessions; our virtual anchors of memory represent the stuff we make the time to upload, which create our virtual shadow. In both cases, we’ve reserved a spot for a particular symbolic gesture in our life.

To better understand the anchors of memory, let’s look at them as what a programmer would call them: pointers. A pointer is an empty object whose sole purpose is to represent something else with actual content. The Polaroid doesn’t contain your 1978 family reunion, but it points to the memory of that event in your mind. A Twitter status is 140 organized symbols that, for you, trigger a particular idea. Or, in more physical terms, a city mile marker is merely metal with scribbles on it, but it shows you where you have to go to get to that particular place.

But what happens if the pointer, this empty piece of symbolism, aims at something that is inaccurate, incomplete, or, worse, not of value at all?

This essay has been excerpted from the new TED Book Our Virtual Shadow: Why We Are Obsessed with Documenting Our Lives Online, by culture writer Damon Brown, creator of the app Quote Unquote and author of more than a dozen books, including Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. His new TED Book takes a look at what happens to us as individuals in a world of infinite status updates, constant tweeting, obsessive Instagraming. It answers the question: Does documenting our lives keep us from living them? And more important: How can we use social media tools, which satisfy a real need to be heard and remembered, to help us stay present in actual life?

“Our Virtual Shadow” is available for the Kindle, Nook, or through the iBookstore. Or download the TED Books app for your iPad or iPhone. Read more »

1. Sandra Aamodt, @sandra_aamodt

2. Mustafa Abushagur, @MustafaAG

3. Alessandro Acquisti, @ssnstudy

4. Anant Agrawal  https://twitter.com/edXOnline

5. Manal Al-Sharif, @manal_alsharif

6. Nassim Assefi, @nassefi

7. Benjamin Barber, @BenjaminRBarber

8. Natasha Bedingfield, @natashabdnfield

9. Carin Bondar, @DrBondar

10. Tania Bruguera, @immigrantmove

11. Stephen Burt, @accommodatingly

12. Grégoire Courtine, @gcourtine

13. Jamie Cullum, @jamiecullum

14. Abha Dawesar, @abhadawesar

15. Toby Eccles, @tobyecc

16. Shereen El-Feki, @shereenelfeki

17. Elizaveta  https://twitter.com/elizavetaka

18. Dina El-Wedidi, @ElwedidiDina

19. May El-Khalili, @beirutmarathon

20. Tim Exile, @timexile

21. Chrystia Freeland, @cafreeland

22. <p dir="ltr"Andras Forgacs, @atforgacs

23. Greg Gage, @BackyardBrains

24. Gabriella Gomez-Mont, @ToxicoCultura

25. Charmain Gooch, @Global_Witness

26. Lesley Hazleton, @accidentaltheo

27. Yaron Herman, @yaronherman

28. Erik Hersman, @WhiteAfrican

29. Annette Heuser, @AnnetteHeuser

30. Adrian Hong, @adrianhong

31. Salvatore Iaconesi, @xdxd_vs_xdxd

32. Just a Band, @justaband

33. Lian Pin Koh, @lianpinkoh

34. Bernie Krause, @BernieKrause

35. Lissie, @lissiemusic

36. Elizabeth Loftus, @lissiemusic

37. Mariana Mazzucato, @MazzucatoM

38. Kelly McGonigal, @kellymcgonigal

39. Alexa Meade, @alexameade

40. An Xiao Mina, @anxiaostudio

41. Holly Morris, @hollymorris

42. Dambisa Moyo, @dambisamoyo

43. George Papandreou, @GPapandreou

44. Juan Pardinas, @jepardinas

45. Trita Parsi, @tparsi

46. Gavin Pretor-Pinney http://idlermag.com

47. Andreas Raptopoulos, @andreasx

48. Apollo Robbins, @ApolloRobbins

49. Charles Robertson, @RencapMan

50. Johan Rockström, @jrockstrom

51. RuthAnne, @ruthannemusic

52. Sonia Shah, @soniashah

53. Toby Shapshak, @shapshak

54. Anne-Marie Slaughter, @SlaughterAM

55. Jose Miguel Sokoloff, @jmsokoloff

56. Daniel Suarez, @itsDanielSuarez

57. Le Trio Joubran, @LeTrioJoubran

58. Eben Upton, @Raspberry_Pi

59. Anant Agrawal, @edXOnline

60. Elizaveta, @elizavetaka

61. Gavin Pretor-Pinney, @idlermag

Read all about these speakers here »

Excited to be speaking at TEDGlobal in June! Also can't wait to meet Apollo Robbins, gentleman thief blog.ted.com/2013/04/02/int…—
Sandra Aamodt (@sandra_aamodt) April 03, 2013

Thrilled for physician-novelist @nassefi that she's joining #TEDGlobal 2013 as a Guest Host. Excited 4 you, Nassim! ht.ly/jHidc—
Rose Deniz (@rosedeniz) April 03, 2013

Creativity Officer, Accidental Theologist, Mathemagician, Cloudspotter… people's titles for TEDGlobal 2013… wow. bit.ly/16w5ogJ—
  (@lukeneff) April 03, 2013

I can now confirm I'll be speaking – & NOT on willpower! RT @TEDchris: The speaker line-up for TEDGlobal in June: is.gd/NCGnEo”—
Kelly McGonigal (@kellymcgonigal) April 02, 2013

We're very excited about @JMSokoloff speaking at @TEDGlobal this year & hearing about his anti-guerilla creative! bit.ly/13R3B8g—
Everybody Engage (@everybodyengage) April 03, 2013

Woooop!! "@justaband: Happy to announce that that we're taking part in this years TEDGlobal in Edinburgh in June. blog.ted.com/2013/04/02/int…"—
neema ntalel (@neemantalel) April 03, 2013

It's now official!! I'll be giving a TED talk at TED Global this June! conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2013/… @TedGlobal @carlbildt @mehdirhasan @lrozen—
Trita Parsi (@tparsi) April 03, 2013

Yes, Edinburgh. OMG, OMG, OMG. Happy as a kitten on YouTube. We'll be at TED Global! conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2013/…—
Katherine Krause (@KatKrause) April 02, 2013

Honoured to be a @tedtalks TEDGLOBAL2013 speakers June, Edinburgh conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2013/… talking State as entrepreneurial force in economy—
Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM) April 03, 2013

Now it can be told: I'm giving a #ted talk in June @tedtalks conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2013/…—
Stephen Burt (@accommodatingly) April 03, 2013

Perhaps one of the best titles I've heard in a while: Apollo Robbins "Gentleman thief" conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2013/… #TED—
Tim Belonax (@timbelonax) April 03, 2013

TED Global in Edinburgh this June. Love it when the world is kind enough to come to my front door. conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2013/… #TEDglobal—
Rachel Hamada (@rachelhamada) April 03, 2013

"Think again" – TED reveals terrific line-up for #TEDGlobal 2013, incl. former Greek prime minister & Michael Sandel conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2013/…—
Tim Leberecht (@timleberecht) April 02, 2013

People around the world answered Sugata’s invitation to help reinvent the way kids learn, by spreading the word about self-organized learning and committing to contribute resources for his School in the Cloud. Based on the conversation online, the TED community is ready and willing to reimagine education.

Sugata’s name is now trending on Twitter. The prospect of igniting the fire of curiosity in kids through collaboration and encouragement is so inspiring; even some critics are rooting for this project’s success.

Here are some highlights:

Something valuable for everyone in school or who has children in school. My hero Sugata Mitra shares the wisdom… fb.me/1AbwNx7Kz—
Ramon J. Thomas (@RamonThomas) October 31, 2012

Building a school in the cloud! Breaking the barriers!! blog.tedprize.com/congratulation…—
Subramanyan RG (@subramanyanrg) February 27, 2013

Congratulations to Sugata Mitra for winning TED Prize '13 -Blowing away conventional thoughts on Education! Brilliant! What an honour too!—
Joy Dev Chatterjee (@Joydc11) February 27, 2013

#TEDSOLE I commit to help with identity, marketing, branding, engagement strategy, teaching & North Texas collaboration @TEDPrize #TED2013—
Sarah Boswell (@SarahBoswell) February 27, 2013

hey #TED2013, the educational hookup I offered was to @toddsutler and his @OdysseyInitiate 50-state tour of best teaching practices—
Baratunde (@baratunde) February 27, 2013

@tedprize I'd be humbled take part. I commit to help w/ interaction design, usability, accessibility, marketing & more. #emailingnow—
Ryan Plesko (@plesko) February 27, 2013

"education should be about developing the ability to learn anything on one’s own." Let's do this everywhere! wp.me/p10512-ilS—
Deanna Martinez (@DeaBeEm) February 27, 2013

Sugata Mitra winning the 2013 TED Prize should be the most important story in every newspaper in the world. This can change learning forever—
Nikhil Goyal (@nikhilgoya_l) February 27, 2013

Teachers take note!! RT @TEDNews: winner of the 2013 @TEDPrize: Sugata Mitra and the school in the cloud! ted.com/prize #TED2013—
Matt W Kane (@Mattwkane) February 27, 2013

"If there's a child in trouble, we beam a gran." ~ Sugata Mitra #TED2013 #Education #LoveYou #education <3—
Amazing Women Rock (@AmazingWomen) February 27, 2013

love this "rid us of a system that is fast becoming obsolete": NRI ed pioneer Sugata Mitra wins $1 million TED Prize fb.me/KOI2Iuh2—
jalak jobanputra (@jalak) February 27, 2013

"Child Driven Education" – Sugata Mitra's winning TED presentation on giving kids access to education even far away ted.com/talks/lang/en/…—
  (@japanmama) February 27, 2013

Huge win for Sugata Mitra but remain skeptical on use of technology in primary education. Happy to be proven wrong. bit.ly/ZHHfDR—
Gautam John (@gkjohn) February 27, 2013

Are you inspired by Sugata’s wish? Join the conversation on Twitter by tweeting at @TEDPrize and using the #TEDSOLE hashtag.

Sharing is caring, and here at TED we do a lot of both — especially on social media. You can like our Facebook page, catch us on Instagram and follow us on 19 active Twitter handles. That’s a lot, we know, but sometimes good sharing means not oversharing. In other words, we want to make sure you get the information that’s meaningful to you and aren’t overwhelmed by updates from TED’s many initiatives and projects and occasional bouts of livetweeting. (See: This spring’s epic Twitter fail, in which we blew up our feed during TED2012 with livetweets from, of course, Sherry Turkle’s talk on digital communication.) Feel like you need a map? Below, a taxonomy of TED on Twitter.

For general info:

@TEDNews: Our main Twitter account. Follow @TEDNews to get the daily TED Talk plus links to new TED Blog posts, news and announcements from TED initiatives, and top-line coverage of our conferences and events. We livetweet from here on occasion.

@TEDTalks: For minimalists who only want one update a day, this Twitter account is exclusively for the daily TED Talk, posted every morning at 11am Eastern.

For information on TED Conferences:

@TEDActive: Coverage of the happenings at TEDActive and TEDYou. Follow it now to meet the TEDActive community; the conference happens February 25–March 1, 2013, in Palm Springs, California.

@TEDGlobal: Complete conference coverage from TEDGlobal, happening June 10-14, 2013, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

@TEDLiveHQ: News about our TEDLive program, which lets you watch the TED conference feed live in your home, school or office.

@TEDYouth: Speaker-by-speaker tweets from TEDYouth, which takes place every fall in New York City. Check it out now for great quotes from the most recent event.

For info from TED.com:

@TEDConversation: Find out about great conversations happening each day on TED.com – and when to join in.

@TEDHelp: The place to go for help with problems or questions about TED.com, the conferences or our mobile apps.

@TEDQuote: Get great quotes daily from our TED Talks quotes archive.

@TEDTranslations: The hub for the Open Translation Project. Find out which talks are ready to be translated, and communicate with those translating talks into 90+ languages.

For information on TED initiatives:

@TEDBooks: Hear about the new TEDBooks and their authors, as well as great links about digital publishing.

@TED_Ed: Updates from TED’s education initiative, TED-Ed, including new lessons four times a week.

@TEDFellow: News about past and present TED Fellows.

@TEDpartners: Tweets for and about TED’s global partnerships.

@TEDAds: News about the annual Ads Worth Spreading contest, devoted to finding inspiring and inventive ads.

@TEDPrize: Updates about the TED Prize, wishes and winners. The 2013 winner of the $1 million prize will be announced at the TED Conference, February 25-March 1, 2013.

@TheCity2_0: Progress on the 2012 TED Prize winner, the City 2.0.

@TEDx: News about TEDx events and initiatives, like TEDxCity2.0 and TEDxYouthDay.

@TEDxTalks: Find out about the daily TEDxTalk, from the deep TEDxTalks library.

And some accounts that are commonly mistaken for TED channels, though they aren’t:

@Ted: The personal and professional Twitter account for video editor Ted Severson, who’s been really nice about the occasional confusion.

@TED_Tweets: This channel looks legit, but it is updated by a fan rather than the TED staff.

@TED_Talks: Is this hand-updated by a fan or a robot? We don’t know.

@ted_com: Another account that looks official, but isn’t.

@RandomTEDTalks: TED-esque talk titles, generated by an algorithm from real TED Talks (with a few handcrafted headlines thrown in). Absolutely worth a follow.

@WhatTedSaid: The official Twitter account for the Seth MacFarlane film Ted. Sigh.

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One billion. That’s a thousand millions. In other words, the number of seconds contained in 31 and a half years. The population of the continent of Africa, as of 2011. The number of inches that would stretch halfway across the Earth. And the number of users of Facebook hit in October.

Our curator Chris Anderson says of this milestone, “The spread of TED Talks across languages and borders suggests that intellectual curiosity is demonstrably alive and well.  Maybe the Internet isn’t dumbing us down after all.”

To mark this event, we’d love to hear from you. Below, two hashtags currently gaining steam on Twitter: #TEDBillion and #topTED.

#TEDBillion

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With this hashtag, share the TED Talk that has just never quite gotten out of your head. Has a TED Talk ever changed your life? Have you seen a TED Talk impact a community or individual? What’s the one talk you want everyone to watch next?

My personal fav, a fellow public health nerd: Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational #TEDBillion ted.com/talks/elizabet…

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Mubnii Morshed (@mubnii) November 13, 2012

My top one : ) Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story bit.ly/pCzi6 #TEDBillion

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  (@anagoelzer) November 13, 2012

2 #TEDBillion talks that remain with me - 1) #JJAbrams (the first one I ever saw) and 2) #SirKenRobinson (schools/creativity?) #watch

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Jon Gill (@OnTheSuperFly) November 13, 2012

Most powerful TED Talk I've seen: "What if your student comes at you with scissors?" by @DenaSimmons youtu.be/BmvOh8jx6ro #TEDBillion

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John Cary (@johncary) November 13, 2012

Karen Armstrong - Charter for Compassion. My first ever @TEDTalks video. on.ted.com/gExF #TEDBillion

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Imandeep Kaur (@ImmyKaur) November 13, 2012

@TEDchris The one by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, "why we have too few women leaders." #TEDBillion #LoveTedTalks

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Renee Deserae (@Renee_Deserae) November 13, 2012

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#topTED

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With this hashtag, talk about our newly launched Playlists section. Is there a topic playlist that’s calling your name? Or is one of our guest-curated playlists piquing your interest? You can make a playlist of your own by giving speakers names or, as always, share your favorite talk.

RTing so I can watch later :) “@mashable: Bill Gates: 13 Talks That Expanded My Worldview on.mash.to/TXEqda #TOPTED”

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Gabrielle Scrimshaw (@GabScrimshaw) November 13, 2012

#TopTED Favorite music: Andrew Bird, Imogen Heap, and of course Reggie Watts

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Matthew Makeshift (@MatthewTonner) November 13, 2012

Been watching the TED playlist "How to Live With Robots" for the past 35 minutes. The ultimate procrastination. ted.com/playlists/17/h… #topTED

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Kate Torgovnick (@TheKateBook) November 13, 2012

Reggie Watts: The 10 Talks That Most Boggled My Mind dlvr.it/2TMFHK #Uncategorized #reggiewatts #topted

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Bert Fentress (@GeekInfoNow) November 13, 2012

have seen some, looks like good set, will watch rest! Bill Gates: 13 Talks That Expanded My Worldview on.mash.to/TXEqda #TOPTED

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Blair MacIntyre (@blairmacintyre) November 13, 2012

I wish the whole world was a giant TED talk.

Science is the new black #FiveWordTEDTalks

We woke up in love with this Twitter hashtag game: #fivewordTEDtalks

People Is How Memes Mate #FiveWordTEDTalks

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Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) February 28, 2012

Fail soon, often, and cheap #FiveWordTEDTalks

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Carlos Osorio (@Carlos_Osorio) February 28, 2012

Uncontacted Tribe Independently Invent Facebook #FiveWordTEDTalks

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Daniel Rourke (@therourke) February 28, 2012

it has come to this. #fivewordTEDtalks

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allison d carr (@hors_doeuvre) February 28, 2012

Read Mischa Nachtigal’s roundup of the Top 10 #fivewordTEDtalks …

Twitter State of the Union, courtesy of TED.com. Definitely an idea worth spreading. — tapdraw

Watching @ev present at TED on video about Twitter and tweeting it. That is just inneresting. — kwells2416

just saw a nice little TED talk on Twitter… made me excited for our times :) — rcajias

TED talk on Twitter – quite interesting, lots I didn’t know about it’s development — icepoet

twitter on TED been waiting for this one — biyingw

Can’t … resist … tweeting the twitter TED talk — eulenherr

eating a turkey sandwich and watching a talk about twitter on Ted.com — michaelbyers

Another little slice of life, via Twitter.