Here’s the list so far — and if you’re blogging your impressions of TED2008 or TED@Aspen, photoblogging, Twittering, … drop an email to contact (at) ted.com and we’ll add you to the list: Live-blogging + The mighty Ethan Zuckerman live-blogged every sessions of TED2008 in Monterey at … My Heart’s in Accra. + TED’s European […]
It’s time for TED 2008. Most of the TED team — helped by a vast contingent of electricians, decorators, and other skilled craftspeople — is in Monterey, California, preparing the conference, which will start on Wednesday. Our colleagues are in Aspen doing the same (see previous post): in a TED first, the two locations will […]
The TED@Aspen team is busy setting up the gorgeous Doerr-Hosier Center at the Aspen Institute. A few behind-the-scenes pics, from top left: rigging the lighting; Matt, Kelly and Sean go over the schedule; the view from Blogger’s Alley; a new TED friend.
Conde Nast Portfolio, a sponsor of TED2008, has a great package of pre-conference stories about TED2008. Look for interviews with the three 2008 TED Prize winners — Dave Eggers, Neil Turok, and Karen Armstrong — as well as a TED news feed, slide shows and a backgrounder, “Ahead of TED.” Read more here >>
TED’s Musical Director, Thomas Dolby, is blogging about his preparations for the conference — choosing music, working with the amazing house band and special guests … And he plans to blog about TED music regularly from Monterey, throughout the conference. As he writes: So what’s the role of music in all of this? Well, imagine […]
Illustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers (who’ll be in residence next week at TED@Aspen) show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you’ll just stand completely still … (Recorded February 2002 in Monterey, California. Duration: 15:33.) Watch the Raspyni Brothers’ performance on TED.com, where you can download it, rate […]
Two TEDTalks favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, team up for a delightful set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary. (Jill and Julia will be in residence next week at TED@Aspen.) (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 06:20.) Watch Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney’s performance on TED.com, where […]
Charlie Rose interviews TED’s curator, Chris Anderson, on his show set to air tonight, February 18. The Charlie Rose Show will be broadcast on PBS affiliates throughout the country; check local listings. (In New York, the show plays at 11 pm on Channel 13.) Update: Click here for video of the show >> And here’s […]
Looking back over a long career, architect Moshe Safdie digs deep into four extraordinary projects to talk about the unique choices he made on each building — choosing where to build, pulling information from the client, and balancing the needs and the vision behind each project. Sketches, plans and models show how these grand public […]
George Dyson tells the amazing story of Project Orion, a 4,000-ton, nuclear-bomb-propelled spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. With a priceless insider’s perspective and a cache of documents, photos and film, Dyson brings this dusty Atomic Age dream to vivid life. (Recorded February 2002 in Monterey, California. Duration: 08:31.) […]
While a few brave souls have sought to master the theremin since its “Good Vibrations” heyday, none have done so with more sly effervescence than Pamelia Kurstin. Far from being a quirky curiosity, though, Kurstin is a sensitive, emotional stylist capable of coaxing sublime melodic content out of an instrument usually doomed to B-movie sci-fi […]
Visit the TED2009 registration page to submit an application to join the waitlist for TED2009 in Long Beach, California.
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, […]
What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant’s-eye view — to consider the possibility that nature isn’t opposed to culture, that biochemistry […]
His love and fascination for Rome dates to his days as an architecture student, but David Macaulay found the path to his book Rome Antics took some unusual (and frustrating) turns. Through failed pop-up designs, scribbled-out title possibilities, surreal sketchbook pages (think “Piranesi meets Escher”), and rambling storylines, Macaulay details each step of his winding […]
With maverick flair and a strategist’s disdain for accepted wisdom, Jaime Lerner re-invented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. He talks about how to revolutionize bus transit, awaken green consciousness in a populace accustomed to litter and blight, and change the way city planners and bureaucrats worldwide conceive what’s possible within the tangled structure […]